Quarterly Union for Academic Discourse (QUAD) Bhubaneswar 2025

THEME: BIOLOGY FOR BETTER TOMORROW

Background

The mandate and vision of QUAD (Quaterly Union of Academic Discourse) is to bring together scientists and researchers from the national institutions and universities in Odisha to provide a common platform to share their research interests and have an academic discourse to bolster collaborative research. There are many academic cum research institutes in and around the greater Bhubaneswar area having vibrant life sciences programs and this will fascilitate inter-institutional scientific interaction to improve cutting-edge research activities for the betterment of human health and society. The Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), BBSR, School of Biological Sciences, NISER, BBSR, School of Biological Sciences, IISER, Berhampur, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, and Ravenshaw Univeristy are the partner institutions and organise this event alternatively in a quaterly manner.

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Register for the 15th November 2025

Eighth QUAD at ILS, Event timing - (09.15 A.M.- 06.00 P.M.)

Registration fee:

Registration end date: 10/11/2025

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Highlights

Steps to Register

  1. Make a payment to Union Bank of India with the following details:
    • Bank details: Union Bank of India
    • Account Name: ILS-CONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM AND SEMINAR
    • Account no: 450502010017942
    • IFSC code: UBIN0545058
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  3. Go to the following website for registration: Registration Form
  4. While registering, please fill in the payment transaction details
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Contact QUAD Convener

Email: quad_ils2024@ils.res.in

Quarterly Union for Academic Discourse (QUAD) Bhubaneswar 2025

Organized by Institute of Life Sciences & School of Biological Sciences, NISER

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15th November 2025 @ ILS Auditorium

Program

Our speakers Arrival and Registration

Professor 1

Dr. Soumen Chakraborty, ILS, BBSR

Title: PTBP2: A new player in CML disease progression

Professor 2

Dr. Satish Devadas, ILS, BBSR

Title: T cells mediate meta inflammation in T2DM patients through TNF-a.

Professor 3

Dr. Ramanujam Srinivasan, NISER, BBSR

Title: The Lord of the Rings: Endgame

Professor 4

Dr. Swagata Ghatak, NISER, BBSR

Title: Stabilizing Neuronal Networks: Targeting K₂P 'Leak' Channels in Neurodegeneration

Professor 5

Dr. Binod Bihari Sahu, NIT, Rourkela

Title: Metabolites regulate invasion of rice blast in the non-host species

Professor 6

Dr. Bodhisatta Nandy, IISER, Berhampur

Title: Life, death, and the evolution of male fertility traits: a 1200 generation experiment using fruit flies

Professor 7

Dr. Amrita Swain, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack

Title: When Sunshine Meets Smoke: The VDR Gene Story in Oral Cancer

Students Talk Arrival and Registration

Professor 8

Ms. Swayambara Mishra (Dr. Shanti Senapati’s Laboratory, ILS)

Title: A novel probiotic formulation suppressed progression of metabolic disorders and pancreatic cancer in offspring born to mothers fed with high fat, high cholesterol diet.

Professor 8

Mr. Armul Simanchal Dora (Dr. Tirumala K. Chowdary’s lab, NISER)

Title: Scission-site selection by Dengue virus protease, Non-structural protein 3

Professor 8

Mr. Arun Kumar (Dr. Bhavana Tiwari’s lab, IISER,Berhampur)

Title: When Transposons Awaken: How LINE-1 transposon encoded ORF2p Fuels Cancer Epigenomes.

Professor 8

Ms. Gargee Bhattacharyya (Dr. Rabindra Behera’s lab, NIT, RKL)

Title: Impact of self-assembly on ferritin functionality

Professor 8

Mr. Achutananda Samal (Dr. Srikanta Jena’s lab, Ravenshaw)

Title: Vitamin C Shields Neural Architecture and Cognition in Zebrafish against Sodium azide-Induced Damage

Discussion/ Poster Presentations and Many more………Poster Icon