BRIC-National Institute of Plant Genome Research

Seminar/Invited Lectures

Seminar/Invited Lectures

179

Seminar on Yoga for One Earth, One Health

By- Ms. Meenakshi, Yoga Expert & Coordinator

Jun 11, 2025

178

Plant cell-based biopharmaceuticals – Enhancing Affordability and Access to Healthcare – Advancing from Laboratory to the Clinic

By- Prof. Henry Daniell W. D. Miller Professor & Vice Chair, Department of Basic and Translational Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Jun 11, 2025

177

Isotope-assisted metabolic flux analysis reveals non-intuitive metabolism in oilseeds

By- Dr. Somnath Koley Research Scientist Donald Danforth Plant Science Center St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Apr 24, 2025

176

Wired for complexity – gene regulatory networks regulating leaf shape diversity

By- Prof. Neelima Sinha Distinguished Professor in Plant Biology University of California Davis, USA

Apr 23, 2025

175

Temperature sensing in tree buds-leveraging noise for robust decision makin

By- Prof. Rishikesh Bhalerao Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå, Sweden

Feb 28, 2025

174

DNA-derived biodiversity data: A comprehensive picture of life on Earth

By- Dr. Joseph T. Miller Executive Secretary and Director GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility Copenhagen, Denmark

Feb 13, 2025

173

Gametes to Zygotes to Self-Cloning plants

By-Prof. Venkatesan Sundaresan Department of Plant Biology University of California, Davis, California, USA

Feb 06, 2025

172

From Linear Motifs to AlphaFold – impact of AI in Illuminating mechanistics of Protein-Protein interactions (PPIs)

By-Dr Manjeet Kumar, Bioinformatics Scientist, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany

Sep 03, 2024

171

Plant Immune Signaling

By-Prof. Dinesh-Kumar, Chair and Professor, Department of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, USA

Jul 26, 2024

170

Molecular Mechanisms and Engineering of Photosynthesis

By-Prof. David Savage, Associate Professor, Departments of Molecular & Cell Biology and Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Jul 25, 2024

169

Gene Editing Strategies for Creating Durable and Sustainable Disease Resistance

By-Prof. Brian Staskawicz, Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology Department, Scientific Director of Agricultural Genomics, Innovative Genomics Institute, UC Berkeley, CA, USA

Jul 25, 2024

168

Intriguing role of SHORT-LEAF and SCARECROW in moss (Physcomitrium patens) leaf development

By-Prof. Anjan Kumar Banerjee, Department of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune

Jul 09, 2024

167

Yoga for Self and Society

Seminar on

June 21, 2024

166

Nature’s Technologies: The Evolution of Biochemistry and the Birth of Biology

By-Prof. Padmanabhan Balaram, Senior Visiting Professor, NCBS & Chairperson ATREE and Former Director, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bengaluru

May 11, 2024

165

The Global Biodata infrastructure and the drive for sustainability

By-Dr. Guy Cochrane, European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), United Kingdom

Mar 11, 2024

164

From model legume to crop, how to improve biological nitrogen fixation?

By-Dr. Fabienne Cartieaux & Dr. Sergio Svistoonoff, Plant Health Institute of Montpellier, France

Mar 04, 2024

163

Beyond PDF Printing: Open Access for Liberating Literature

By-Simon Worthington, TiB Vivo, Berlin, Germany

Feb 22, 2024

162

VivlioStyle & CSS Media Design

By-Raquel Perez de Eulate, Creative Director – Interpunct, Spain

Feb 22, 2024

161

Creating Youth AI Champions in India

By-Peter Murray-Rust, Dept of Chemistry, University of Cambridge

Feb 22, 2024

160

How taste shaped the use of botanical drugs

By-Associate Prof. Marco Leonti, University of Cagliari, Italy

Feb 22, 2024

159

Metabolomics in medicinal plants and Ethnopharmacology

By-Prof. Pulok K. Mukherjee, ISBD, Manipur

Feb 22, 2024

158

Understanding temperature-controlled gene expression in plants

By-Dr. Martin Balcerowicz, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

Jan 18, 2024

157

Cryptochrome-mediated inhibition of the COP1/SPA ubiquitin ligase during light-regulated Arabidopsis development

By-Prof. Ute Hoecker, Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Cologne, Germany

Jan 18, 2024

156

Safari pentapus: A structure-function journey with plant nucleoplasmins

By-Dr. Dileep Vasudevan, DBT-Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (DBT-RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram, India

Nov 29, 2023

155

Detailed studies of plant pathogens can lead to novel means of disease control: the case of Xylella fastidiosa in grape and citrus

By-Prof. Steven E. Lindow, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, USA

Nov 18, 2023

154

Epigenomic and cell-type specific regulation of gene expression and function

By-Dr. Sunil K. Kenchanmane Raju, Postdoc, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, Manhattan, NY, USA

Nov 16, 2023

153

Mechanism of Tn7, the most widespread bacterial transposon

By-Prof. Marcin Nowotny, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland

Oct 23, 2023

152

Supercomputing, Machine Learning, Graph Algorithms, Statistics & Big Data in BioInformatics / BioMedical Informatics

By-Dr. Abhishek Narain Singh, The Global American University Schiller, Heidelberg campus, Germany

Sept 14, 2023

151

Opportunities in synthetic plant biology through post-translational protein fate regulation

By-Dr. Kaushal Kumar Bhati, BASF Belgium Coordination Center CommV, Innovation Center Gent, Belgium

Aug 28, 2023

150

Quality Control and Standardization of Plant Based Drug

By-Dr. R. Govindarajan, R&D Head, Zydus Wellness Ltd., Ahmedabad

May 01, 2023

149

Early Effectors of crop destroyers could hold a key in strategizing control of disease progression

By-Dr. Sucheta Tripathy, CSIR-IICB, Kolkata

Mar 28, 2023

148

Calcium signaling in plants: Follow the signals to decipher their function

By-Dr. Smrutisanjita Behera, CSIR-IICB, Kolkata

Mar 28, 2023

147

Regulation of receptor kinase-mediated immune signaling outputs

By-Prof. Cyril Zipfel, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Feb 27, 2023

146

Nitric oxide signalling in deconvolution

By-Prof. Gary J Loake, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK

Feb 16, 2023

145

A CYBDOM protein from Arabidopsis acts as a ferric reductase, impacting iron and phosphate homeostasi

By-Prof. Yves Poirier, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Feb 07, 2023

144

Molecular switches governing priming-induced plant heat stress response(s)

By-Dr. Annapurna Devi Allu, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Tirupati

Feb 01, 2023

143

Novel breeding methods for generating broad spectrum resistance to pathogens in rice

By-Prof. Wolf B Frommer, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Jan 11, 2023

142

The noncoding RNA SPRIGHTLY drives a lethal childhood brain cancer by forcing exon-skipping

By-Prof. Animesh Ray, Keck Graduate Institute, California, USA

Jan 09, 2023

141

High IQ is a pre-requisite to orient in right direction

By-Dr. Pradeep Dahiya, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), Halle, Germany

Nov 14, 2022

140

Triterpene biosynthesis and engineering in plants

By-Dr. Ramesha Thimmappa, Associate Professor and Ramalingaswami Fellow, Amity Institute of Genome Engineering, Amity University

Oct 27, 2022

139

विज्ञान, प्रौद्योगिकी और समाज (Science, Technology and Society)

By-Dr. Ketki BapatAdviser/Scientist ‘G’, Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India, New Delhi

Sept. 26, 2022

138

Species-specific function of conserved cell fate determinants in orchestrating rice root architecture

By-Dr. Shri Ram Yadav, Associate Professor, IIT-Roorkee

July 07, 2022

137

SUMO: Small proteins with big roles in plant stress biology

By-Dr. Moumita Srivastava, Protein Scientist, Iksuda Therapeutics, Newcastle, UK

May 27, 2022

136

Grafting as a tool for more robust agriculture in monocot crops

By-Dr. Pallavi Singh, John Henry Coates Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, UK

April 12, 2022

135

Interactions between the parasitic plants and their hosts

By-Prof. Neelima Sinha, Distinguished Professor in Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, USA

March 23, 2022

134

Transcriptional Regulation of Biosynthesis of Plant Specialized Metabolites

By-Prof. Ling Yuan, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, USA

March 06, 2020

133

What drives the phenotype of plant respiratory rate: Mapping out the details of mitochondrial metabolic function

By-Prof. Harvey Miller, The University of Western Australia

Jan 31, 2020

132

Potential, Safety Assessment and Regulation of Gene Edited Plants

By-Dr. Donald MacKenzie, Executive Director, Institute for International Crop Improvement (IICI) Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA

Jan 27, 2020

131

Bridging the gap between traditional and modern medicine in the fight against osteoporosi

By-Dr. Ritu Trivedi, Principal Scientist Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow

Jan 24, 2020

130

SWEET solution to bacterial blight disease of rice: The Healthy Crops project

By-Dr. Sarah M. Schmidt, Project Coordinator, Healthy Crops Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

Jan 23, 2020

129

Gyan Swaraj: Access to Knowledge as a Prerequisite for Progress

By-Dr. Carl Malamud, President of Public Resource, U.S.-based nongovernment organization

Jan 16, 2020

128

Developmental patterning in plants

By-Dr. Neha Bhatia, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Comparative Development and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Jan 03, 2020

127

1.Molecular Basis of the Evolution of Methylthioalkylmalate Synthase and the Diversity of Methionine-Derived Glucosinolates

2. Interaction map of Arabidopsis Mediator complex expounding its topology 

3. Transcriptional signatures modulating shoot apical meristem morphometric and plant architectural traits enhance yield and productivity in chickpea

4. The Ca2+ Channel CNGC19 Regulates Arabidopsis Defense Against Spodoptera Herbivory

1. Dr. Roshan Kumar, NIPGR New Delhi

2. Dr. Sourobh Maji, NIPGR New Delhi

3. Ms. Laxmi Narnoliya, NIPGR New Delhi

4. Mr. Ramgopal Prajapati, NIPGR New Delhi

Nov 28, 2019

126

Air Pollution: A Silent Killer, Act Now or Perish!

By-Dr. Arvind Kumar, Director, Institute of Robotic Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi

Nov 04, 2019

125

Protecting the global wheat cultivation through rapid detection of resistance for the deadly rust disease

By-Dr. Sam Periyannan, CSIRO Agriculture & Food, Australia

Aug 01, 2019

124

Insertional Mutagenesis of Medicago truncatula and its Utilization to Identify Novel Sources of Resistance against Asian Soybean Rust

By-Prof. Kiran Mysore, Noble Research Institute, USA

July 31, 2019

123

Synthetic Biology Approaches to Manipulate Algal Metabolism

By-Prof. Alison Smith, University of Cambridge, UK

July 26, 2019

122

‘करें योग भगाएं रोग’, on the occasssion of 5th International Day of Yoga celebration

By-Dr. Ajay Kumar Shastri, Yogacharya, Jawaharlal Nehru University

June 21, 2019

121

Responses of ecosystems and society in a world increasingly rich in N and C but limited in P

Prof. Josep Penuelas, National Research Council of Spain (CSIC)

May 21, 2019

120

The importance of Vitamin B6 in environmental stress responses in plants

By-Prof. Teresa Fitzpatrick, Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland

April 26, 2019

119

कार्यालय में प्रयुक्त पारिभाषिक शब्दावली

श्रीमती वीणा शर्मा, उप निदेशक, हिंदी शिक्षण योजना (मध्योत्तर) , राजभाषा विभाग, गृह मंत्रालय, नई दिल्ली

मार्च 26, 2019

118

Sexual harassment at workplace

By-Ms. Mansi Gupta, Advocate, Delhi High Court

Jan22, 2019

116

Extracting information on iron regulation by coexpression networks

By-Prof. Petra Bauer, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Dec 06, 2018

115

1. mQTL-seq and classical mapping implicates the role of an AT-HOOK MOTIF CONTAINING NUCLEAR LOCALIZED (AHL) family gene in Ascochyta blight resistance of chickpea

2. OsHAD1, a haloacid dehalogenase-like APase enhances phosphate accumulation

3. FCS-Like Zinc Finger 6 and 10 repress SnRK1 signalling in Arabidopsis

1. Dr. Kamal Kumar, Research Scholar, NIPGR New Delhi

2. Dr. Poonam Mehra, Research Scholar, NIPGR New Delhi

3. Dr. Muhammed Jamsheer K, Research Scholar, NIPGR New Delhi

Nov 26, 2018

114

The GMO Wars: What do we do when scientists and citizens deeply disagree?

By-Prof. Nina Fedoroff, Penn State University, USA

Nov 13, 2018

113

Ultrafast Structural changes in Photosynthetic Reaction Centres

By-Dr. Amit Sharma, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Nov01, 2018

112

Organisation of the Golgi Apparatus Determines its Glycan Output

By-Dr. S. Parashuraman, IBP (Istituto Biochimica Proteine), Naples, Italy

Aug 28, 2018

111

Recombination – a molecular tool to generate genetic diversity

By-Dr. Rajeev Kumar from Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA Centre de Versailles-Grignon, Cedex France

July 16, 2018

110

Multi-omics approaches reveal the importance of ROS scavenging, phenylpropanoid pathway and antifungal activity in soybean resistance against broad host range pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

By-Dr. Ashish Ranjan, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA

July 04, 2018

109

Stress and its management

By-Ms. Ashita Mahendru, a licensed Clinical and Rehabilitation Psychologist (RCI)

June 29, 2018

108

Molecular Insights into Meiotic Chromosome Synapsis and Recombination

By-Prof. K. Muniyappa, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

June 14, 2018

107

Interactions between tomato and the parasitic plant dodder

By-Prof. Neelima Sinha, University of California, Davis, USA

May 21, 2018

106

MicroProteins in shoot branching

By-Dr. Amit Sharma, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

May 11, 2018

105

Nutrigenomics exploration for translated health benefits of rice consumers

By-Dr Nese Sreenivasulu, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines

May 04, 2018

104

Computational Gastronomy: The emerging data science of food, flavors, and health

By-Dr Ganesh Bagler, Assistant professor, IIIT-Delhi, India

Apr 09, 2018

103

Application of Paper-Based Device and Nanodelivery System

By-Dr Amit Asthana, Principal scientist, CCMB, India

March 16, 2018

102

टिप्पण एवं प्रारूप लेखन

By-श्रीमती कमलेश बजाज, सहायक निदेशक, केन्द्रीय हिंदी प्रशिक्षण संस्थान, राजभाषा विभाग, गृह मंत्रालय, नई दिल्ली

मार्च 12, 2018

101

A Life in Science

By-Dr. Shahid Jameel, Director of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance

Jan 08, 2018

100

BIRAC BIG Scheme:12th Call; C-CAMP: A BIG Partner

By-Dr. Papri Banerjee, C-CAMP, Bengaluru

Dec 18, 2017

99

देवनागरी लिपि, मानक वर्तनी एवं व्याकरणिक भूलें

By-श्रीमती कमलेश बजाज, सहायक निदेशक, केन्द्रीय हिंदी प्रशिक्षण संस्थान, राजभाषा विभाग, गृह मंत्रालय, नई दिल्ली

दिसम्बर 14, 2017

98

SUMO and stress signalling in plants

By-Prof. Ari Sadanodan from Department of Biosciences, Durham University UK

Nov 10, 2017

97

C4 Rice : How Far and How Near.

By-Dr. Baishnab C. Tripathy, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)

Oct 25, 2017

96

NIAB: Leading the UK in Crop Innovation.

By-Dr. Tina Barsby, National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology (NIAB), Cambrige U.K.

Sep 29, 2017

95

हिंदी पखवाड़ा

By-हिन्दी पखवाड़ा के अवसर पर विभिन्न प्रतियोगिताओं का आयोजन

01-14 Sep, 2017

94

A prophage tail-like protein is deployed by Burkholderia bacteria to feed on fungi.

By-Mr Sunil Kumar Yadav, National Institute of Plant Genome Research(NIPGR)

Aug 03, 2017

93

‘समग्र स्वास्थ्य व योग’ (3rd International Day of Yoga)

By-Dr. Ajay Kumar Shastri, Yogacharya, Jawaharlal Nehru University

June 21, 2017

92

Auxin regulates root hair elongation in response to low external phosphate

By-Dr. Ranjan Swarup (from The University of Nottingham, UK)

Apr 07, 2017

91

Use of ICT to improve Quality of Life of Persons with Disability.(National Science Day)

By-Prof. Prabhat Ranjan, Executive Director, Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC)

Feb 28, 2017

90

Control of plant growth and development by light and ubiquitination.

By-Dr. Ute Hoecker (from University of Cologne, Germany)

Feb 27, 2017

89

Indigo™ Cotton, A tale of meta-genomic symbiome engineering.

By-Dr. Vijay Verma from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR),New Delhi.

Feb 09, 2017

88

Banana Cultivars for 21st Century: Completely new one or improved old one?

By-Prof. James Dale from Queensland Univ., Australia

Nov 11, 2016

87

Substrates of the Arabidopsis thaliana PROTEIN ISOASPARTYL METHYLTRANSFERASE 1 using Phage display affinity selection

By-Prof. Dr. Bruce Downie from University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

Nov 02, 2016

86

High-resolution phenotyping in 4D enables systems biology insights into signaling of single cells and organs from model plant Arabidopsis thaliana

By-Prof. Klaus Palme from University of Freiburg, Germany

Oct 25, 2016

85

‘हिंदी की दुनिया : भाषाएँ क्या कराती हैं?’ हिंदी पखवाड़ा (01-14 सितम्बर, 2016)

By-प्रो. देवेंद्र चौबे, प्रोफ़ेसर, सेंटर ऑफ़ इंडियन लैंगुएजेस, स्कूल ऑफ़ लैंगुएज, लिटरेचर एंड कल्चर स्टडीज,जवाहरलाल नेहरू यूनिवर्सिटी

8 सितम्बर 2016

84

Intellectual Property in area of Biotechnology: How to protect your inventions through Patents in India and abroad

By-Dr. Malathi Lakshmikumaran

Sep 02, 2016

83

Antifungal Plant Defensins: Mechanisms of Action and Engineering

By-Dr. Dilip Shah, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA

Aug 23, 2016

82

Plastid transformation: Failures, successes and applications

By-Prof. Kailash C. Bansal, ICAR

Aug 19, 2016

81

The algal photosynthetic carbon concentrating mechanism and prospects for introduction into higher plants

By-Prof. Howard Griffiths, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK

Feb 26, 2016

80

Cellular pH homeostasis and control of vesicular trafficking and protein processing by NHX-type cation/proton antiporters

By-Prof. Eduardo Blumwald, Department of Plant Sciences, UC-Davis, California, USA

Jan 22, 2016Jan 22, 2016

79

Evolutionary adaptation of transcription factors into Wnt signaling network: Insights into the head organizer in hydra

By-Prof. Sanjeev Galande from IISER, Pune

Jan 06, 2016

78

Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Health Care

By-Prof. N.R. Jagannathan, Head, NMR and MRI Facility, AIIMS, New Delhi

Nov 20, 2015

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