42nd Annual Meeting of Plant Tissue Culture Association – India (PTCA-I)
&
International Symposium on “Advances in Plant Biotechnology and Genome Editing”
(APBGE-2021)
APRIL 8-10, 2021
Important Dates
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01
Feb, 2021 -
25
Mar, 2021 -
31
Mar, 2021 -
08
Apr, 2021
Welcome to APBGE-2021
We would like to welcome all delegates and participants to the 42nd Annual Meeting of Plant Tissue Culture Association (India) [PTCA(I)] & International Symposium on Advances in Plant Biotechnology and Genome Editing-2021 (APBGE-2021) The event is being organized by ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Ranchi-834 010, India, in association with PTCA(I). Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this event will be a live, virtual event.
The Plant Tissue Culture Association (India) [PTCA (I)] is an elite body of Plant Tissue Culture Scientists, several of whom are pioneers in this field, while others have established scientific credentials. One of the goals of PTCA(I) is to provide platform for students, researchers and scientists to present their work for interaction and exchange views on the most recent developments in plant science. PTCA (I) has been providing this unique platform by facilitating annual congregation of scientists, year after year, for more than past four decades. The annual meeting of the association is combined with a three-day symposium on a theme related to advances in plant tissue culture and plant biotechnology.
Sponsors
There is an opportunity to give advertisements in the Souvenir and Abstract Book of the Symposium, which will contain messages from VIPs and articles from renowned scientists, policymakers and administrators. Interested companies may contact the convener at ptca2021@gmail.com for giving their advertisements.
Call for Abstract
The Organizing Committee invites the participants to contribute the paper for oral and poster presentation. The language of the symposium will be English. The abstract not exceeding 500 words should have a title (Font: Times New Roman; Font size 14) followed by the name of the author(s), affiliation and e-mail address of the corresponding author. The abstracts may be submitted on or before 15th March, 2021.
The acceptance will be communicated to the presenting author by 25th March 2021. The name of the presenting author must be underlined in the abstract. The abstract should contain a brief introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion. Tables, figures/photographs and references should not be included in the abstract.
The abstracts are invited for following types of presentations:
Plenary Talks
Eminent Scientists/researchers from national and international research institutions / universities will be invited to deliver plenary talks on various research topics.
Invited Talks
Eminent Scientists/researchers from national and international research institutions / universities will be invited to deliver invited talks in each session.
Oral Presentations
The organizing committee will select few abstracts for oral presentation in each session.
Poster Presentations
There will be separate “Poster Sessions” in each technical session to encourage wider interaction and sharing of the information. Two best posters in each session will be awarded. The pdf of a poster will be allowed to present through “virtual” mode.
Committees
Chief Patrons
JNU, New Delhi
Patrons
Conference Chair
Conference Co-chair
Convener
Co-conveners
Organizing Secretary
Co-organizing Secretaries
Scientific Committee
- Chair : Dr. T.R. Sharma, Jt. Director (Res.), IIAB
- Co-chair : Dr. B.K. Singh, Pr. Scientist, IIAB
- Members :
- Dr. Sudhir Kumar, Scientist, IIAB
- Mr. S.K. Lal, Scientist, IIAB
- Dr. Dev Mani Pandey, BIT Mesra
- Dr. K Thamilarasi, Scientist, IINRG
- Dr. B. Pradhan, SERB N-PDF, IIAB
- Dr. Ragini Sinha, DBT-BioCARe PI, IIAB
Publicity Committee
- Chair : Dr. C. Chattopadhyay, Jt. Director (Acad), IIAB
- Members :
- Dr. Anil Kumar Singh, Pr. Scientist, IIAB
- Dr. Biplab Sarkar, Pr. Scientist, IIAB
- Mr. K.U. Tribhuban, Scientist, IIAB
- Dr. Sofi Imran Ul Umar, JRF, IIAB
ICT Committee
- Mr. KU Tribhuban, Scientist, IIAB
- Mr. AK Tripathi, AAO, IIAB
- Dr. Alok Ranjan, CSIR, Sr. Research Associate
- Dr. Manisha Priyam, DBT Research Associate
- Ms. Meenu Bala, Ph.D. Scholar, IIAB
Finance Committee
- Chair : Dr. T.R. Sharma, Jt. Director (Res.), IIAB
- Members :
- Dr. Anil Kumar Singh, Pr. Scientist, IIAB
- Dr. Soumen Naskar, Sr. Scientist, IIAB
- Dr. Avinash Pandey, Scientist, IIAB
Advisory Committee
Members :- Prof. Ajay Parida, ILS, India
- Prof. Akhilesh Tyagi, Delhi Univ., India
- Dr. AK Singh, IARI, India
- Dr. AK Singh, ICAR-RCER RC, India
- Dr. Alok Sinha, NIPGR, India
- Prof. Ashwani Pareek, NABI, India
- Prof. Catherine Bellini, INRAE, France & Umea Univ., Sweden
- Prof. Christine Foyer, Univ. of Birmingham, UK
- Prof. Chittaranjan Kole,ICAR-NIPB, India
- Dr. CM Bajpeyi, CTRTI, India
- Prof. Deepak Pental, Delhi Univ., India
- Prof. DK Srivastava, YSPUHF, India
- Dr. DK Yadava, ICAR, India
- Prof. Douglas Cook, UC Davis, USA
- Dr. Fatma Sarsu, FAO/IAEA, Austria
- Prof. Fredy Altpeter, Univ. of Florida, USA
- Dr. Himanshu Pathak, NIASM, India
- Dr. JC Rana, Bioversity Intl., India
- Prof. JP Khurana, Delhi Univ., India
- Prof. KC Bansal, Bioversity Intl., India
- Dr. KK Sharma, IINRG, India
- Prof. Kuldeep Singh, NBPGR, India
- Dr. Nitin Kulkarni, IFP, India
- Prof. MV Rajam, Delhi Univ., India
- Dr. Manoj Prasad, NIPGR, India
- Prof NK Singh, NIPB, India
- Dr. NP Singh, IIPR, India
- Dr. ON Singh, BAU, India
- Prof. OP Dhankher, Univ. of Massachusetts, USA
- Prof. Paramjit Khurana, Delhi Univ., India
- Dr. Prabodh Trivedi, CIMAP, India
- Dr. PK Chakrabarty, ASRB, India
- Dr. PK Ghosh, NIBSM, India
- Prof. PL Gautam, Palampur India
- Prof. PV Vara Prasad, Kansas State Univ., USA
- Prof. R Srinivasan, NIPB, India
- Prof. RK Dey, CU Jharkhand, India
- Prof. Rajeev K Varshney, ICRISAT, India
- Dr. RK Singh, ICAR, India
- Prof. Ryutaro Tao, Kyoto Univ., Japan
- Dr. Sachiko Isobe, KDRI, Japan
- Dr. Sanjay Kumar, IHBT, India
- Dr. Sanjeev Gupta, ICAR, India
- Dr. Sharmila Chattopadhyay, CSIR-IICB, India
- Dr. Shubhra Chakraborty, NIPGR, India
- Prof. SK Sharma, Palampur, India
- Prof. SK Barik, NBRI, India
- Dr. Sneh L. Singla-Pareek, ICGEB, India
- Prof. Swapan K. Datta, University of Calcutta, India
- Prof. Surinder Singh, CSIRO, Australia
- Prof. Tej Pratap, GBPUA&T, India
Invited Speakers
Dr. Sandip Das
Scientific Sessions
Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance
Plant Biotic Stress Tolerance
Plant Genetics, Genomics and Epigenetics
Gene/ Genome Editing for Plant Improvement
Advances in Plant Tissue Culture, Bioprocessing and Commercial Applications
Biotechnology for Plant Yield and Quality Traits
Plant Systems Biology and Functional Genomics
Biotechnology of Trees, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Regulatory and Ethical Issues of Genetically Engineered and Gene-Edited Crops
Workshop on “CRISPR/Cas based Genome Editing Technology”
(All the registered participants of the symposium will be able to participate in the workshop)
Workshop Partners
Dr. J.C. Rana
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, India Office, New Delhi, India
Dr. Rahul M. Shelake
Gyeongsang National University, South Korea
Dr. Siddharth Tiwari
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute, Mohali, India
Dr. Parul Tomar
Merck Life Sciences