program

Conference Venue: MAC Auditorium

3rd December 2023Registration17:00 – 20:00
 Welcome Dinner19:00 – 21:30
   
4th December 2023Registration08:00 – 10:00
 Inauguration09:30 – 10:00

Technical Sessions: KL – Keynote Lecture; IL – Invited Lecture; SIL – Short Invited Lecture

Day 1 (4 December 2023)
Day 2 (5 December 2023)
Day 3 (6 December 2023)

ThermoFisher Session
Chair: Goutam De, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences

10:00 - 10:35   -   KL - 1
Claus Feldmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
High-Load Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery and Multimodal Imaging
10:35 - 11:00    -    IL - 2
Angshuman Nag, IISER Pune
Nanoscale Interface within a Hybrid Perovskite Crystal for Optoelectronics
11:00 - 11:30    -   SRICO Tea Break
SERB Session
Chair: Vandana Bhalla, Guru Nanak Dev University
11:30 - 12:05    -    KL - 2
Narayan Pradhan, IACS Kolkata
Surface and Facet Chemistry to tune the Photoluminescence Quantum Yields of Semiconducting Nanocrystals

12:05 - 12:30    -    IL - 2

Sameer Sapra, IIT Delhi
Optoelectronic Properties of Double, Vacancy-Ordered and Layered Metal Halide Perovskites

12:30 - 12:55    -    IL - 3
Devleena Samanta, The University of Texas at Austin
DNA-Barcoded Plasmonic Nanostructures for Activity-Based Protease Sensing 
12:55 - 14:15        Lunch Break 
DBT Session
Chair: Partha Roy, IIT Roorkee
14:15 - 14:50    -    KL - 3
Hiroyuki Nakamura, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Photocatalytic Target Protein Knockdown and Its Application to Molecular Targeted Photodynamic Therapy

14:50 - 15:25        KL - 4

Dipendra Singh Rawal, Solid State Physics Lab, DRDO
III-Nitride Material and Device Technology for RF and Optoelectronics Applications: Indian Perspective

15:25 - 15:50    -    IL - 4
Sayan Bhattacharyya, IISER Kolkata
The Perks of Flattened Perovskites
15:50 - 16:15    -    IL - 5
Nandita Dasgupta, CSIR-IITR Lucknow
The Evolving Field of Nano-toxicology for Translation of Nanomedicine
16:15 - 17:00    -    Merck High Tea
17:00 - 18:00   -      Editors' Session
19:00    -    Thermo Fisher Dinner #

ACS Session
Chair: Archita Patnaik, IIT Madras

09:00 - 09:35   -   KL - 5
So-Jung Park, Ewha Womans University
Dynamic Nanostructures through Self-assembly of Functional Polymers and Nanoparticles
09:35 - 10:10    -    KL - 6
Nikhil R. Jana, IACS Kolkata
Designing Colloidal Nanoparticle and Nanodrug for Non-endocytic Cell Uptake
10:10 - 10:35    -    IL - 6
Saptarshi Mukherjee, IISER Bhopal
A Bio-inspired Light Harvesting System and Conformational Dynamics of i-motif DNA: A FRET Approach
10:35 - 11:00    -    IL - 7
Saswata Bhattacharya, IIT Delhi
Probing Excited States in Perovskites from Many-body Perturbation Theory: Fundamental Issues and Challenges
11:00 - 11:20    -   H V Technologies Tea Break
RSC Session
Chair: Sourav Pal, Ashoka University
11:20 - 11:55    -    KL - 7
Rajadurai Chandrasekar, University of Hyderabad
The Birth of “Mechanophotonics” & “Crystal Photonics Foundry” and the Emergence of Organic Crystals as New Materials for Photonic Circuits

11:55 - 12:30    -    KL - 8

Sharmistha Sinha, INST Mohali
Bacterial Microcompartment as Paradigms for the Development of Organic-inorganic Hybrid Materials

12:30 - 12:55    -    IL - 8
Shaibal Sarkar, IIT Bombay
Self-healing in Hybrid Halide Perovskite Photovoltaic Devices 
12:50 - 13:10    -    SIL - 1
Aniruddha Adhikari, University of California, Los Angeles
Therapeutic Phage-Nanomaterial Conjugate: Promises and Pitfalls 
13:10 - 13:15        Conference Photo in MAC Auditorium 
13:15 - 15:15        Poster Session & Lunch Break 
TCI Session
Chair: Anil K. Mishra, IIT Roorkee
15:15 - 15:50    -    KL - 9
Nripan Mathews, Nanyang Technological University
Halide Perovskites-from Solar Cells, Light Emitters to Memristors

15:50 - 16:15        IL - 9

Reji Varghese, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
DNA-Based Nanostructures as Chemodynamic Nanoagents for Targeted and Enhanced Chemo/chemodynamic Cancer Therapy

16:15 - 16:40    -    IL - 10
Kenta Homma, Osaka University
The Perks of Flattened Perovskites
16:40 - 17:05    -    IL - 11
Abhijit Patra, IISER Bhopal
Deciphering the Self-assembly of π-conjugated Fluorescent Molecular Bioprobes
19:30    -    Bruker Dinner

Nature’s Health and Hygine Session
Chair: Prasenjit Ghosh, IIT Bombay

09:00 - 09:35   -   KL - 10
Satish Ogale, IISER Pune
Molecularly engineered opto-electronically active hybrid and halide perovskite systems
09:35 - 10:00    -    IL - 12
Debrupa Lahiri, IIT Roorkee
Electrical Stimulation and Carbon Nanomaterials: Guiding Neural Regeneration and Shaping Cellular Morphology
10:00 - 10:25    -    IL - 13
Bama Prasad Bag, CSIR-IMMT Bhubaneswar
A Sustainable Dyeing Process for Textile Materials with Sulphur Dyes
10:25 - 10:50    -    IL - 14
Subinoy Rana, IISc Bangalore
Bioinspired Adaptive Nanostructures with Superior Functions
10:50 - 11:05    -    SIL - 2
Ali Hossain Khan, SNBNCBS Kolkata
Synthesis of Anisotropic Nanocrystals Induced by Chloride 
11:05 - 11:30    -   Inkarp Tea Break
Agilent Session
Chair: P. Gopinath, IIT Roorkee
11:30 - 11:55    -    IL - 15
Tapasi Sen, INST Mohali
Plasmonic Nanoantennas: From Single-Molecule Sensing to Photocatalysis

11:55 - 12:20    -    IL - 16

Shivendu Ranjan, IIT Kharagpur
Bio-Mimicked and Bio-Inspired Nanotechnology for Therapeutics

12:20 - 12:35    -    SIL - 3
Anup Ghosh, SNBNCBS Kolkata
Molecular Self-Assembled Structures of Small-Peptide on the Surface of Nanoparticles for Targeted Nano-Drug Delivery: A Linear and 2D IR Spectroscopic Studies 
12:35 - 12:50    -    SIL - 4
Nitin Singhal, National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute
A multiepitope glycan-based fluorescent nanocomposite with dual functionality for sensing and ablating Pseudomonas aeruginosa 
12:50 - 13:15        Valedictory Session 
13:15        Lunch 

Technical Sessions: KL – Keynote Lecture; IL – Invited Lecture; SIL – Short Invited Lecture

Day 1 (4 December 2023)
Day 2 (5 December 2023)
Day 3 (6 December 2023)
Chair 
10:30 - 11:05KL - 1
11:05 - 11:40KL - 2
11:40 - 12:05IL - 1
12:05 - 12:30IL - 2
12:30 - 12:55IL - 3
12:55 - 13:05Conference Photo
13:05 - 14:30Lunch Break

 

 

Chair 
14:30 - 15:05KL - 3
15:05 - 15:40KL - 4
15:40 - 16:05IL - 4
16:05 - 16:30IL - 5
16:30 - 17:00Tea Break
17:00 - 18:00Editors' Session
19:00Dinner
Chair 
09:00 - 09:35KL - 5
09:35 - 10:10KL - 6
10:10 - 10:35IL - 6
10:35 - 11:00IL - 7
11:00 - 12:00Tea Break

 

 

Chair 
11:20  - 11:55KL - 7
11:55 - 12:30KL - 8
12:30 - 12:55IL - 8
12:55 - 13:10SIL - 1
13:10 - 15:00Poster Session & Lunch

 

 

Chair 
15:00  - 15:35KL - 9
15:35 - 16:10KL - 10
16:10 - 16:35IL - 9
16:35 - 17:00IL - 10
19:30Dinner
Chair 
09:00 - 09:35KL - 11
09:35 - 10:00IL - 11
10:00 - 10:25IL - 12
10:25 - 10:50IL - 13
10:50 - 11:05SIL - 2
12:05 - 11:30Tea Break

 

 

Chair 
11:30 - 12:05KL - 12
12:05 - 12:30IL - 14
12:30 - 12:55IL - 15
12:55 - 13:10SIL - 3
13:10 - 13:30Valedictory Session
13:30Lunch

# Vehicle for ThermoFisher Dinner from MAC: 18:15 – 18:30

Return vehicle from dinner location to IIT Roorkee: 21:45 – 22:00

Food and beverage will be available at MAC Auditorium Lawn during the conference*.

Breakfast timing on 4th – 6th December: 07:30 – 09:00

*Special Dinners on 3rd and 5th December for delegates.

Vehicles will be available for Special Dinners from guest houses: 19:00 – 19:15