Building Bharat-Boston Biosciences (B4) Program

2021 B4 Workshop on ‘Big Data in Life Sciences & Healthcare’

WORKSHOP AGENDA

14th March 2021

6.30pm: Inaugural Remarks and Procedures

15th March 2021

9am -10am: Inaugural Address: Dr. Anurag Agrawal, Director, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi
10am to 1pm: Hands on Session on Linux OS and commands
2pm-3pm: Hands on Session on Linux commands
3.15pm to 630pm: Didactic Lecture on Biostatistics and ‘R’ followed by hands on session on ‘R’ programming: Dr. R. Srivatsan, IBAB, Bangalore
6.30 pm to 7pm: Interactions with faculty
7pm-8pm: Research Talk: Prof. Matthew Meyerson, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Director, Center for Cancer Genome Discovery, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, MA, USA

16th March 2021

9.30am to 10.30am: Research Talk: Dhandapany Perundurai, Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (InStem), Bangalore
10.30am to 1pm: Hands on session on ‘R’ programming: Dr. R. Srivatsan, IBAB, Bangalore
2pm to 5.30pm: Hands on session on ‘R’ programming: Dr. R. Srivatsan, IBAB, Bangalore
5.30pm to 6pm: Interactions with faculty
6pm to 7pm: Research Talk: Prof. James Collins, Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science and Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT, Faculty Member of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology

17th March 2021

9.30am to 10.30am: Dr.Vinod Scaria, IGIB, New Delhi
10.30am to 1pm: Hands on session on Genomic Data Analysis (Analysis of Transcriptome data)
2pm to 6pm: Genomic Data Analysis (Analysis of Transcriptome data)
6pm to 7pm: Interactions with faculty

18th March 2021

9.30am to 10.30am: Dr. Mohit Kumar Jolly, IISc, Bangalore
10.30am to 1pm: Hands on session on Genomic Data Analysis (Variant and SNP Analysis)
2pm to 5pm: Hands on session on Genomic Data Analysis (Variant and SNP Analysis)
5pm to 6.30pm: Didactic Lecture on Fundamentals of Machine Learning: Prof. G. Srinivasa Raghavan, IIIT -Bangalore

19th March 2021

9.30am to 10.30am: Dr. Babu Narayanan, Vice President- AI, ConcertAI, Bangalore
10.30am to 1pm: Hands on session on Analysis of Biological Images
2pm to 6pm: Hands on session on Analysis of Biological Images
6pm to 7pm: Interactions with faculty

20th March 2021

9am to 10am: Prof. Anne E Carpenter, Senior Director of the Imaging Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
10am to 11am: Dr. Debdoot Sheet, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering IIT- Khargapur
11am to 1pm: Hands on Session on Medical Image Analysis using AI and Machine Learning – Dr. Debdoot Sheet and Team
2pm to 5.30pm: Hands on Session on Medical Image Analysis using AI and Machine Learning – Retinal images and images from MRI – Dr. Neelam Sinha, IIIT-Bangalore
6pm to 7.30pm: Interaction with Industry

21st March 2021

9am to 10am: Valedictory Function