Contemporary Challenges in Chemical Sciences (C3S)
Venue : B. Nag Auditorium(ground floor), Victor Menezes Convention Centre (VMCC), IIT Bombay
| Day 1 : Wednesday | December 6th 2023 |
| 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM | Registration |
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Inauguration and opening remarks |
| Session I (3:00 PM - 4:20 PM) | Chair Person: Prof. R. Murugavel |
| 3:00 PM – 3:40 PM | Prof. Clare Grey, University of Cambridge "Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how batteries function and fail." |
| 3:40 PM – 4:20 PM | Prof. Suman Chakrabarty, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences "Role of Metastable Conformational States in Proteins: From Function to Drug Discovery" |
| 4:20 PM – 4:50 PM | Coffee/Tea Break |
| Session II (4:50 PM - 6:10 PM) | Chair Person: Prof. Krishna P. Kaliappan |
| 4:50 PM – 5:30 PM | Prof. Brian Stoltz, California Institute of Technology "Natural Products as a Driving Force for Basic and Translational Science" |
| 5:30 PM – 6:10 PM | Prof. Harinath Chakrapani, IISER Pune "Precision Redox Chemical Biology Tools" |
| 7 PM - 9:30 PM | Dinner |
| Day 2 : Thursday | December 7th 2023 |
| Session III (9:00 AM - 10:20 AM) | Chair Person: Prof. Anindya Datta |
| 9:00 AM – 9:40 AM | Prof Eufranio da Silva Jr., Federal University of Minas Gerais "On the Application of Diverse Catalytic Methods towards Bioactive Quinones Focusing on Generation and Capture of Benzyne and Electrochemical Processes" |
| 9:40 AM – 10:20 AM | Prof. Suresh Valiyaveettil, NUS "Plastic pollution – Our attempts on understanding the environmental and health impact, tracking of movement and removing plastic particles from environment" |
| 10:20 AM – 11:20 AM | Coffee + Group Photo Session |
| Session IV (11:25 AM - 12:45 PM) | Chair Person: Prof. Suvarn S. Kulkarni |
| 11:25 AM – 12:05 PM | Prof. Sayam Sengupta, IISER Kolkata "Catalyst development for sustainable oxidation reactions" |
| 12:05 AM – 12:45 PM | Prof. Benjamin Swarts, Central Michigan University "Chemical probes for mycobacterial glycans: from tuberculosis research tools to new diagnostic and therapeutic opportunities" |
| 12:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Lunch and Poster Session |
| Session V (3:00 PM - 4:20 PM) | Chair Person: Prof. Raghavan B. Sunoj |
| 3:00 PM – 3:40 PM | Prof. Umesh Desai, Virginia Commonwealth University "Synthetic, Orally Bioavailable, Selective, Highly Sulfated Mimetics of Natural Glycosaminoglycans as Drugs" |
| 3:40 PM – 4:20 PM | Prof. Naga Phani Aetukuri, Indian Institute of Science "Ionics with Redox-Active Organic Semiconductors" |
| 4:20 PM – 4:50 PM | Coffee/Tea Break |
| Session VI (4:50 PM - 6:10 PM) | Chair Person: Prof. Arindam Chowdhury |
| 4:50 PM – 5:30 PM | Prof. Mohan Srinivasarao, Georgia Institute of Technology "Emergence of Chiral Structures in Achiral Lyotropic Liquid Crystals" |
| 5:30 PM – 6:10 PM | Prof. Neil Cameron, Monash University "Tailored Polymer Scaffolds to Enable the Regeneration of Functional Tissue" |
| 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM | Banquet Dinner |
| Day 3 : Friday | December 8th 2023 |
| Session VII (9:00 AM - 10:20 AM) | Chair Person: Prof. I. N. N. Namboothiri |
| 9:00 AM – 9:40 AM | Prof. Karthish Manthiram, California Institute of Technology "Electrification and Decarbonization of Chemical Manufacturing" |
| 9:40 AM – 10:20 AM | Prof. P K Madhu, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research "NMR from a High-Field and a Low-Field Perspective" |
| 10:20 AM – 10:45 AM | Coffee/Tea Break |
| Session VIII (10:45 AM - 12:45 PM) | Chair Person: Prof. Prasenjit Ghosh |
| 10:45 AM – 11:25 AM | Prof. Yogesh Surendranath, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Using Electrochemistry to Understand Thermochemical Catalysis" |
| 11:25 AM – 12:05 PM | Prof. Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Scripps Research Institute "Origins of Life: Searching for the Prebiotic Chemical Roots of Biology – Discovery or (re)Invention?" |
| 12:05 AM – 12:45 PM | Prof. Kamendra P Sharma, IIT Bombay "Simple Coacervation to Fibrillation: A Tale of pH-dependent Amine Functional Polymers " |
| 12:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Lunch and Poster Session |
| Session IX (3:00 PM - 5:00 PM) | Chair Person: Prof. Sandip Kar |
| 3:00 PM – 3:40 PM | Prof. Garima Jindal, Indian Institute of Science "Merging Experiments and Theory for Mechanistic Insights into Carbene Insertion Reactions" |
| 3:40 PM – 4:20 PM | Prof. Dattatraya H. Dethe, IIT Kanpur "Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Meroterpenoids and Atisane type Diterpenoids" |
| 4:20 PM – 5:00 PM | Prof. Nandita Madhavan, IIT Bombay "Cyclic Peptide Drugs: Minimalistic Scaffolds and Sustainable Synthesis?" |
| 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM | Closing Remarks - Prof. Anil Kumar |
| 5:15 PM – 5:45 PM | High Tea |
Click here to register (Student Registration).
Participation with invitation only. Kindly contact the email-id: c3s@chem.iitb.ac.in
Last date is November 5th 2023. Successful candidates will be informed via email for registration. Registration fees is INR 1000.
