FRIDAY	August 28, 2026
09:30AM - 09:40AM	Opening Ceremony
Session 1	Chair - Dr. Swagata Patra
09:40AM - 09:47AM	Dr. Tonima Nandy "Deciphering the relation between local surface polarity and toxicity of wild type and diseased mutant of α-Synuclein amyloid fibrils via ratiometric pseudo hyperspectral fluorescence imaging"
09:47AM - 09:54AM	Akshay Thorat "Counteranion-Driven Dealkylation of Photoluminescent Cationic Chromophores"
09:54AM - 10:01AM	Rahul Tarkase "Amine-Enabled Electron Donor–Acceptor Complex Catalysis for Cyclopropanation."
10:01AM - 10:08AM	Ms. Sonia Pundir "Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Alkoxylation/1,3-Nitrogen Migration/ Reduction Cascade for the Stereoselective Synthesis of 3Aminotetrahydrofuran"
10:08AM - 10:16AM	Q&A
10:16AM - 10:20AM	Chem Quiz
10:20AM - 10:45AM	Dr. Ritajit Majumdar (IBM) "Sample, Don't Optimize: Quantum computing's new playbook for molecular electronic structure"
10:45AM - 11:15AM	TEA BREAK
Session 2	Chair - Dr. Gayathri Sekar
3MT session
11:15AM - 11:18PM	Dr. Swagata Patra "Engineered Liposomes for DNA Aptamer Delivery to Reverse Macrolide-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance"
11:19AM - 11:22PM	Dr. Pooja Yadav "A semi-synthetic strategy to overcome macrolide antibiotic resistance"
11:23AM - 11:26PM	Dr. Arulkumar R. "Mechanistic Insights into C‒H Activation By Co-Dimer Diamond Core Complex"
11:27AM - 11:30PM	Dr. Kalinga Nayak "Structure-Guided Development of Aminoacyl-Adenylate Conjugates for Targeting Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase of Plasmodium falciparum"
11:31AM - 11:34PM	*Q&A / Discussion*
11:35AM - 11:38PM	Dr. Ramanand Das "Energy-Transfer-Enabled [2+2] Cycloaddition of Allenes and Alkenes with Divergent Selectivity"
11:39AM - 11:42PM	Dr. Subrata Biswas "Chiral Bishomocubane Diacid-Catalyzed Asymmetric Michael Addition of 1,3-Dicarbonyls to Nitroalkenes: Diastereo- and Enantioselective Synthesis of Dihydrofurans"
11:43AM - 11:46PM	Dr. Kanika Bharti "Selective Metal-Mediated Synthesis of Gold-Based Nanomaterials and Their Biological Applications"
11:47AM - 11:50PM	Dr. Prathmesh Bhadane "Critical Mineral Recovery: If Not Now, Then When?"
11:51AM - 11:55PM	*Q&A / Discussion*
12:00PM - 1:00PM	Poster session
1:00PM - 2:00PM	LUNCH BREAK
Session 3	Chair - Dr. Pooja Yadav
2:00PM - 2:07PM	Dr. Roumya Pandey "Site-specific 19 F Labeling of phenylalanine residues in proteins for 19 F NMR measurements"
2:07PM - 2:14PM	Dilnawaj "Benzoxadiazole-Based Fluorescent Probes Light Up Mitochondrial G-Quadruplex DNA Structures and Modulate Oxidative Stress and Membrane Potential"
2:14PM - 2:21PM	Ms. Arpita Mardi "Acridine and Quinoline Synthesis by Tandem Condensation/Annulation of 2-amino benzaldehydes and α-methylene ketones Mediated by Gold (I) Acyclic Diamino Carbene (ADC)"
2:21PM - 2:27PM	Q&A
2:27PM - 2:34PM	Pratik A. Shetye "Cell Size Expansion Unmasks Hybrid Epithelial-Mesenchymal Phenotype during TGF-β-Induced EMT"
2:34PM - 2:41PM	Amar Kumar Mishra "What are Rare Sugars? Can We Turn Them into Vaccine Targets?"
2:41PM - 2:48PM	Ms. Renuka Veeravalli "Room-Temperature Liquid-Metal-Printed Ga2O3 Interlayers for High-Mobility Ph-BTBT-C12 Organic Field-Effect Transistors"
2:48PM - 2:54PM	Q&A
2:54PM - 3:00PM	Chem Quiz
3:00PM - 3:15PM	TEA BREAK
Session 4	Chair - Dr. Prathmesh Bhadane
3:15PM - 3:22PM	Ms. Sucheta Kundu "Implications of Intramolecular Interactions on the Fluorescence of a Highly Flexible Ethane-Bridged Porphyrin Dimer"
3:22PM - 3:29PM	Abhradeep Chatterjee "Decarboxylative Hydrosulfonylation via Ligand-to-Metal Charge transfer on Iron(III)"
3:29PM - 3:36PM	Ms. Indrani Singha "Nonlinear Second Harmonic Generation response of Metal-Organic Framework based Glass and Glass-Ceramics"
3:36PM - 3:42PM	Q&A
3:42PM - 3:49PM	Ms. Shambhavi Verma "Basis Dependence and Rate Deviations in AFSSH Electron-Transfer Dynamics"
3:49PM - 3:56PM	Ms. Gargee Kashyap "Condensed Graph via Differentiable Atom Mapping for Reaction Yield Prediction"
3:56PM - 4:03PM	Minhajul Islam "Desymmetrization enabled enantiodivergent construction of non-adjacent distal stereocenters in chiral δ-lactams"
4:03PM - 4:09PM	Q&A
4:09PM - 4:15PM	Chem Quiz
4:15PM - 4:40PM	Prof. Vishal Rai "Organic chemistry with proteins: in vitro, in live cells, and in vivo"
4:40PM - 5:00PM	TEA BREAK
Session 5	Chair - Dr. Arulkumar R
5:00PM - 5:07PM	Dr. Nishant Pandey "Lipid Mapping and Disrupting Mycobacterial Biofilms: A Biophysics-to-Therapeutics Approach"
5:07PM - 5:14PM	Dharam Dass "Discovery of a dual-acting natural product with antibacterial and wound- healing activities from a medicinal plant"
5:14PM - 5:21PM	Souman Bhuin "Catalytic Activity of Diphenyl-N-carbazolyl Phosphine-based Ruthenium (II) p-Cymene Complex Towards Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones, Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Secondary Alcohols and N-Methylation of Anilines 1"
5:21PM - 5:27PM	Q&A
5:27PM - 5:34PM	Ms. Garima Bangar "Deciphering the Origins of Negative Cooperativity in Metal–Organic Frameworks Using DFT and Machine Learning"
5:34PM - 5:41PM	Ms. Sreelekshmi Santhosh "Total Synthesis of ent-Eudesmane Sesquiterpenoids from (−)-Verbenone"
5:41PM - 5:48PM	Suman Maity "A Panchromatic Self-Photosensitized Catalyst for facile CO2-to-CO Conversion"
5:48PM - 5:54PM	Q&A
5:54PM - 6:00PM	Chem Quiz
6:00PM - 6:25PM	Prof. Venkatakrishnarao Dasari "Liquid Metal Oxide-Assisted Organic and Molecular Electronics"
Session 6
6:30PM - 7:00PM	Prof. Anil Kumar Magic in chemistry

SATURDAY	August 29, 2026
Session 1	Chair - Dr. Kalinga Nayak
09:30AM - 09:37AM	Somesh Chamoli "Including Relativistic Effects in Quantum Chemistry Calculations"
09:37AM - 09:44AM	Ms. Sonakshi Bedi "Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformation: An Enantioconvergent Approach to Chiral Heterocyclic Scaffolds"
09:44AM - 09:51AM	Debasish Mandal "Structural Modulation of the Dipyrroethene Core: From Fluorescent Probes to NIR Emissive Macrocycles"
09:51AM - 09:58AM	Vikram Gaikwad "Microscopic Insights into the Solvation of Stapled Peptides–A Case Study of p53-MDM2"
09:58AM - 10:06AM	Q&A
10:06AM - 10:10AM	Chem Quiz
10:10AM - 10:35AM	Prof. Ishita Sengupta "Inferring functional relevance from aromatic sidechain dynamics in 19F labelled bioluminescent Nanoluciferase"
10:35AM - 11:00AM	TEA BREAK
Session 2	Chair - Dr. Ramanand Das
11:00AM - 11:07AM	Arijit Das Adhikary "Deciphering Molecular Determinants of Orthosomycin Resistance by Evernimicin Resistance Methyltransferase A"
11:07AM - 11:14AM	Tusar Santra "Accessing Peptide Drugs on a Soluble Polyacrylamide Support"
11:14AM - 11:21AM	Ms. Vijaya T.R. "A Discrete Fe(II) Complex-Based Piezoelectric Nanogenerator for Self-Powered Wireless Morse Code Communication "
11:21AM - 11:27AM	Q&A
11:27AM - 11:35AM	Chem Quiz
11:35AM - 12:00PM	Dr. Janhavi Raut (Hindustan Unilever) "SOAP – A Continuing Sustainability Journey"
Session 3	Chair - Dr. Subrata Biswas
12:00PM - 1:00PM	Poster Session
1:00PM - 2:00PM	LUNCH BREAK
Session 4	Chair - Dr. Kanika Bharti
2:00PM - 2:07PM	Chayan Patra "Accelerated Quantum-Centric Supercomputing with Physics-Informed Generative Machine Learning"
2:07PM - 2:14PM	Godwin Ogofotha "Process Intensification in COFs Synthesis: Transitioning from Solvothermal Method to Scalable Continuous Mechanochemical Manufacturing via Twin-Screw Extrusion"
2:14PM - 2:21PM	Ms. Piyali Pahari "Turning Corrosion into Protection-A Corrosion-Conversion Strategy for Interfacial Stability in Anodeless Solid-state Batteries"
2:21PM - 2:28PM	Ms. Shivalika Sharma "Phase-separation and Self-Assemblies of Amine-functional Polyelectrolytes"
2:28PM - 2:36PM	Q&A
2:36PM - 2:40PM	Chem Quiz
2:40PM - 3:05PM	Prof. Irishi N. N. Namboothiri "Stereoselective Synthesis of Multifunctional and Bioactive Molecules via Asymmetric Organocatalysis "
3:05PM - 3:20PM	TEA BREAK
Session 5	Chair - Prof. Sunoj
3:20PM - 4:35PM	Panel Discussion
4:35PM - 5:05PM	Awards ceremony + closing remarks
5:05PM - 6:05PM	TEA BREAK/MIXER
Session 6
6:05PM - 7:35PM	Cultural program