Monday, 12 October
09 :00 – 09.15	Welcome Speech
Infectious diseases : The reality
09 :15 – 09 :35	Ramesh S. Paranjape HIV Scenario in India: Challenges and Opportunities for prevention
09 :45 – 10 :05	V. Kumaraswami Mycobacterial and Helminth Co-infections
10 :15 – 10 :30	Coffee break
10 :30 – 10 :50	Rupak Singla Programmatic Management of M/X DR-TB in India: constraints and solutions
11 :00 – 11 :20	Kiran Katoch DOTS experience in Ghatampur
11 :30 – 11 :50	Neena Valecha Drug Susceptibility of malaria parasites: implications in treatment
12 :00 – 13 :30	Lunch
Drug discovery and persistence
13 :30 – 13 :50	Jaya S. Tyagi Dormant Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Challenges and opportunities
14 :00 – 14 :20	John McKinney Single-cell analysis of persistence in Mycobacteria
14 :30 – 14 :50	Sudhir Sinha Challenges in anti-TB drug discovery and the CDRI initiative
15 :00 – 15 :15	Coffee break
15 :15 – 15 :35	Christian Doerig Malaria: Targeting parasite and host cell kinomes
Immune responses
15 :45 – 16 :05	Dirk Dobbelaere Theileria-induced host cell transformation: a matter of "divide and rule"
16 :15 – 16 :35	Pawan Sharma Modulation of macrophage function by the proteins secreted from the RD-1 region of M. tuberculosis
16 :45 – 17 :05	Giuseppe Pantaleo HIV Vaccine: where we are, where we should be, where we may be

Tuesday, 13 October
Gene regulation, signal transduction and intracellular trafficking
09 :00 – 09 :20	Claudia Sala Towards a regulatory map of the genome of M. tuberculosis
09 :30 – 09 :50	Valakunja Nagaraja Topoisomerases, topology modulatory proteins and topology - transcription coupling in mycobacteria
10 :00 – 10 :20	Sujatha Narayanan Protein kinase E of M. tuberculosis has a role in the nitric oxide stress response and apoptosis in a human macrophage model of infection
10 :30 – 10 :45	Coffee break
10 :45 – 11 :05	Jean Pieters Life and Death of M. tuberculosis within host macrophages
11 :15 – 11 :35	Pushkar Sharma Dissection of signaling and trafficking events in malaria parasite
11 :45 – 12 :05	Dominique Soldati-Favre Mechanisms controlling motility and host cell invasion by the Apicomplexans
12 :15 – 13 :45	Lunch break
13 :45 – 14 :05	Hans-Peter Beck Cell biology and malaria
Infectious diseases : Mechanistic aspects
14 :15 – 14 :35	Peter Sander Mycobacterial lipoproteins - symthesis, structure and their role in virulence
14 :45 – 15 :05	Shekar C. Mande Multiple functions of M. tuberculosis chaperonins
15 :15 – 15 :30	Coffee break
15 :30 – 15 :50	Till Voss The role of heterochromatin protein 1 in phenotypic variation of Plasmodium falciparum virulence factors
16 :00 – 16 :20	Angela Ciuffi HIV integration and LEDGF/p75
16 :30 – 16 :50	Didier Trono Epigenetic control of retroelements
17 :00 – 17 :15	Closing speech