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Program Schedule

Day 1: Friday	February 17, 2023
15:00 to 19:00 h	Arrival & Check-in
19:00 to 20:00 h	Dinner
20:00 to 20:05 h	Welcome Remarks by Chair-NOST Council Krishna P Kaliappan (IIT Bombay)
20:05 to 20:10 h	NOST-A Brief Overview by President-NOST Ganesh Pandey (BHU, Varanasi)
	Trustees & DST-SERB Session
Session I (20.15 to 22.00 h)	Chairperson (Vinod K. Singh)
20.15 to 21.05 h	Erick M. Carreira(Chief Editor-JACS, ETH-Zurich) “Strategies and Tactics in Natural Products as an Engine for Discovery”
	Chairpersons (Santosh J. Gharpure and Manas K. Ghorai)
21.10 to 22.00 h	Flash Presentations Garima Jindal (IISc, Bangalore) Chinmoy Hazara (IIT Delhi) Sandip Murarka (IIT Jodhpur) Indresh Kumar (BITS Pilani) Nilanjana Majumdar (CSIR-CDRI) Jeyakumar Kandaswamy (Pondicherry University) Gopinathan Purushotman (IISER Tirupati) Santanu Panda (IIT Kharagpur)
Day 2: Saturday	February 18, 2023
	Astra Zeneca Session
Session II (09.00 to 11.00 h)	Chairpersons (N. G. Ramesh and D. S. Rawat)
9:00 to 9:30 h	Yujiro Hayashi (Tohoku University, Japan) “Strategies and Tactics in Natural Products as an Engine for Discovery”
9:30 to 10:00 h	K. R. Prasad (IISc Bangalore) “Scope and Limitations of the Enyne Metathesis approach for the total synthesis of Strychnine”
10:00 to 10:20 h	Prathama Mainkar (CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad) “HDAC Inhibitor: A case study in drug discovery”
10:20 to 10:40 h	Rajib Goswmi (IACS, Kolkata) “Total Synthesis of Thailandamide Lactone and Thailandamide A”
10:40 to 11:00 h	Dattatraya Dethe (IIT Kanpur) “Ruthenium Catalyzed Stereo- and Chemoselective Cross-Coupling of Vinyl Ketones: Application to Total Synthesis of Structurally Diverse Natural Products”
11:00 to 11:30 h	Photo Session & TEA/COFFEE BREAK
	Cipla Session
Session III (11.30 to 13.00 h)	Chairpersons (G. Sekar and Harinath Chakrapani)
11:30 to 12:00 h	Dr. Srivari Chandrasekhar (DST, New Delhi) “Ideal synthesis to Net Zero Synthesis: why and how?”
12:00 to 12:30 h	D. Srinivasa Reddy (CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad) “Lead Optimization of Antimalarial Natural Product Cladosporin and New Methods using Silicon Chemistry”
12:30 to 13:00 h	M. Manoharan (Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Boston, USA) “Biomimetic Chemistry and RNA Therapeutics”
13:00 to 14:00	LUNCH BREAK
14:00 to 19:00 h	Sight Seeing Trip (Visit to Ellora Caves)
19:00 to 21.30 h	BANQUET DINNER
Day 3: Sunday	February 19, 2023
	Panacea Biotech & Jubilant Life Sciences Session
Session IV (09.00 to 11.00 h)	Chairpersons (Vishal Rai and Namrata Rastogi)
9:00 to 9:30 h	Jerome Lacour (University of Geneva, Switzerland) “The discovery of Isocycloseram: a novel isooxazoline insecticide”
9:30 to 10:00 h	J. N. Moorthy (IISER Trivandrum) “Photoresponsive MOFs and Catalytic POPs by Bottom-up De NovoMolecular Design”
10:00 to 10:20 h	Anindita Das (IACS, Kolkata) “Crystallization-Driven Programmable Two-Dimensional (2D)Assemblies from Chromophore-Appended Poly(L-lactide)Homopolymers”
10:20 to 10:40 h	S. G. Srivatsan (IISER, Pune) “Probing DNA polymerase activity in real time and 3D using functionalized nucleotide analogs”
10:40 to 11:00 h	P. C. Ravikumar (NISER Bhubaneswar) “Palladium Catalysed C-C bond Activation of Strained Carbocyclic Ring Systems: A Promising Strategy in Organic Synthesis”
11:00 to 11:30 h	TEA/COFFEE BREAK
	AVRA-IICT Session
Session V (11.30 to 13.00 h)	Chairpersons (T. Punniyamurthy and Santanu Mukherjee)
11:30 to 12:00 h	S. Thayumanavan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst USA) “Bioreactive and Biorthogonal Transformations for Labeling and Conjugating Proteins”
12:00 to 12:20 h	Sivapriya K. (IIT Gandhinagar) “One Scaffold Dual application: Phenothiazineas new scaffoldto treat Glioblastoma”
12:20 to 12:40 h	D. Ramachary (University of Hyderabad) “Discovery of Parts-per-Million-Level, Catalytic Asymmetric Annulations: Synthesis of Functionally Rich Chiral Methanobenzo[7]annulenes”
12:40 to 13:00 h	Anuj Sharma (IIT Roorkee) “Pursuit of Electron Donor Acceptor Complexes under Visible light assisted Synthetic Manipulations”
13:00 to 14:00 h	LUNCH BREAK
	Sun Pharma & PI Industries Session
Session VI (14.00 to 16.00 h)	Chairpersons (Bhanu Manjunath and C. V. Ramana)
14:00 to 14:30 h	Burkhard Koenig (University of Regensburg, Germany) “Redox-neutral Photocatalysis – Towards ideal chemical transformations”
14:30 to 15:00 h	T. Rajamannar (Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd., Vadodara) “Discovery of A Novel, Long-Acting Dual Agonist for GIPR/GLP-1R, HISHS-2001, Demonstrates Effects on HbA1c and Weight Loss in the db/db Mouse Model of Type 2 Diabetes”
15:00 to 15:20 h	Geetharani K. (IISc, Bangalore) “Boron Chemistry Lights the Way: Synthetic Utility in Carbon-Boron Bond Formation Reaction”
15:20 to 15:40 h	Roderick Bates (NTU, Singapore) “From structural biology to organic synthesis: A search for new antituberculosis drugs”
15:40 to 16:00 h	Nitin Patil (IISER Bhopal) “Alkene Functionalizations under Ligand-Enabled Au(I)/Au(III) Redox Catalysis”
16:00 to 16:30 h	TEA/COFFEE BREAK
	Syngenta & BASF Session
Session VII (16.30 to 19.30 h)	Chairpersons (Srinivas Oruganti and S V Ramasastry)
16:30 to 17:00 h	Oliver Reiser (University of Regensburg, Germany) “Copper makes the difference: Developing Sustainable Photoredox Catalyzed Transformations”
17:00 to 17:30 h	D. Maiti (IIT Bombay) “En-Light-ening C-H functionalization”
17:30 to 18:00 h	Alakesh Bisai (IISER Kolkata) “Total Syntheses of Architecturally Intriguing Bioactive Natural Products via the Nature-Inspired Oxidative Strategies”
18:00 to 18:20 h	S. Velmathi (NIT, Trichy) “Development of Novel Fluorescent probes for Molecular Recognition”
18:20 to 18:40 h	Jayanta Haldar (JNCASR, Bangalore) “Pursuit of next-generation glycopeptides - Our journey with vancomycin”
18:40 to 19:00 h	Indira Sen (Syngenta Biosciences, Goa) “The discovery of Isocycloseram: a novel isooxazoline insecticide”
19:00 to 19:20 h	P. Anbarasan (IIT Madras) “Catalytic Functionalization of Metallocarbenes Derived from Diazo and Non-Diazo Surrogates”
19:20 to 19:40 h	CONCLUDING REMARKS
19:30 to 21.30 h	DINNER
Day 4: Monday	February 20, 2023
	Breakfast and Departure