INBIX2024/ADNAT2024: Indian Conference on Bioinformatics and Association for the Promotion of DNA Fingerprinting and other DNA Technologies Benaras Hindu University Varanasi, India, November 28-30, 2024

About

Welcome to Bioclues.org's flagship Indian conference on Bioinformatics ( #Inbix2024) wherein this year is jointly to be organised with ADNAT.  This year's edition is to be held in Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi during November 28-30, 2024 with preconference workshop on November 27. 

Bioclues

BIOinformatics CLUb for Experimenting Scientists (BIOCLUES), India's largest Bioinformatics society enters 20th year in service this October 2024 even as the organization has set up vision 2030. The society has organized her debut onsite Inbix'17 conference in Jaipur during November 2017 and Inbix'19 in HMV, Jalandhar, Inbix'20 in North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, Meghalaya, and Inbix'21 in CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat, Assam as a virtual organization which were a huge success. Keeping in view of the conference series, Inbix'22 conference was held at VFSTR, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, on 31 October to 2 November 2022, #Inbix2023 in VIT, Vellore. The organizers hope this opportunity will not only foster interactions and collaborations among practitioners but will also allow young researchers interact with the world leaders, who are among the top researchers in bioinformatics and computational biology. While we spur on this annual event, the organizers welcome all bioinformaticists across the world to take part in this august conference to be held at BHU.

ADNAT

ADNAT is a society of professionals interested in promotion of various DNA technologies and their applications in health care, agriculture, biology, law and social welfare with emphasis on ethical, social, and legal implications of these technologies. It's focal objectives are (a) To disseminate information about new developments in the field of DNA technology (such as methods of DNA analysis) and their applications, legal impact, etc. (b) To promote the use of DNA technology (such as DNA fingerprinting, and DNA diagnostics) in various areas relating to social welfare, including crime and civil matters, plant and animal stock improvement,certification of cell lines, detection, prevention and treatment of diseases, etc. (c) To provide a platform to formulate guidelines on standards, quality assurance, proficiency testing, and accreditation of laboratories and methods related to DNA technology..

Benaras Hindu University

Banaras Hindu University also referred as Kashi Hindu Vidhwavidyala  is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916. The university incorporated the Central Hindu College, founded by Indian Home Rule-leaguer and Theosophist, Annie Besant in 1898. After Besant and her associates were marginalised,[8] the university was established by Madan Mohan Malaviya with the support of the maharaja of Darbhanga Rameshwar Singh, the maharaja of Benares Prabhu Narayan Singh, and the lawyer Sunder Lal. With over 30,000 students, and 18,000 residing on campus, BHU is the largest residential university in Asia. The Deparrment of Zoology is one of the oldest departments in India and serves as the host for this conference duo.

This year's theme

Multi-omics integration in Healthcare

Program and  Book of Abstracts

•  Tentative Program, Coming soon!
•  Brochure, Coming soon!
•  Book of Abstracts:     Coming soon!

Confirmed Speakers

Keynote

• Eric Green, NIH, USA
• Marta Lahr
• Iain Mathiesen

  Life Time Achievement Awardees

• NK Lohiya, Professor Emeritus, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur
• GPS Raghava, Professor Emeritus, IIIT Delhi
• G Narahari Sastry, Professor Emeritus, IIIT Hyderabad

Invited speakers

• Siva R, VIT University, Vellore

• Surendra Nimesh, CURAJ, Kishangarh

• Rune Mathiesen, NOVA, Portugal

• Arindam Maitra,  NIBMG, Kolkata

• M Mustak, Mangalore University

• Pankaj Khurana,    ICMR, Delhi

• Neeraj Arora,    Unipath Labs, Ahmedabad

• Pritish Varadwaj, IIIT Prayagraj

• Swarkar Sharma, Kashmir University

• Sajitha Lulu, VIT University, Vellore

• Akshay Zawar, GeneSpectrum, Pune

• Rajaguru Aradhya, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kerala

• Renuka Suravajhala, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kerala

Registrations

*If you are a group of more than 10, please e mail us here for further discount.

Preconference workshops  

1.  "Microarray for Biologists" by Sajitha Lulu 

2.  " Next Generation Sequencing for Industry"  by Akshay Zawar

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.   For reviews, you may skip material and methods, results and discussions. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Abstracts/Poster Stubs/presentations:  All abstracts intended for oral presentations are welcome with a detailed summary of no less than 2 pages.  The extended abstract must contain the following sub-heads: Rationale/Motivation, Objectives, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions.  Select abstracts will be invited for full length paper submission.    

• Tutorial/workshop: Proposals are invited from researchers across sub-domains of bioinformatics. The taught programme should detail the target audience, duration (maximum 3 hours) and the prerequisites.    

• Video Abstracts: A novel way of describing your research. The video abstract muct concisely describe your work in no less than 3 minutes.  The participants are asked to prepare a video abstract after submission of traditional abstract. Please e mail Video abstracts to inbixATbiocluesDOTorg   

• Elevator pitch: All participants will be encouraged to introduce their project in 15 seconds each.    

 Very important:  All authors are requested to follow strict guidelines/format whence submitting their papers. All papers must be submitted through easychair.  

Sub-thematic areas

• Population Genomics

• Archaeogenomics

• Multi-omics integration 

• Forensic Medicine

• Physiological Genomics

• Computational Systems Biology

• Next Generation Sequencing 

Program Committee

 Conveners

• Gyaneshwar Chaubey, Professor, BHU and President, Bioclues.Org
• Chandana Basu, Assistant Professor, BHU

Program Committee

• AS Ansari,Professor Emeritus,  University of Rajasthan, Jaipur
• VS Sundararajan, Singapore
• Sugunakar Vure, GenePowerx, Hyderabad
• Barkha Khilwani, Scientist, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur
• Nidhi Shukla, Assistant Professor, Blal Institute of Biotechnolgy, Jaipur

Local Organising Committee

• Prajjwal Singh
• Rudra Pratap Singh

BIRD Award Chairs

• Nirmal K Lohiya, Professor Emeritus, Adviser, Bioclues.Org
• Pushpendra Singh, Research Chair, Bioclues.Org
• Prashanth N Suravajhala, Founder, Bioclues.Org

 Proceedings

• Inbix'24 proceedings will be published in following journals. Select articles may be recommended for publication in a regular issue of the journal once the respective manuscript has been accepted after being peer-reviewed as per the policy of the journal. When submitting a paper, please follow the instructions provided in the Guide for Authors. 

•  Taylor and Francis

•  Giga journals ( Gigabyte and  Gigascience )

•  Current Research in Biotechnology (Elsevier)

•  Journal of Reproductive Healthcare and Medicine (JRHM)

Presenting your work

Posters/Poster talks: If you have been invited for poster or poster talks, please download the template from here. The dimensions of poster are 4ft X 3ft.  Those invited for poster talks, please prepare your pitch for not more than 1 minute. You will be asked to present it during a short session or tea breaks with poster networking. 

Video Abstracts: The video abstracts  shall be aired during a special session or tea breaks.  All video abstracts must be mailed to inbixATbiocluesDOTorg

Practical Information

Social Media: 

• Twitter hash tag #InBix2024

• Linkedin

• Facebook

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to inbix[AT]bioclues[DOT]org  

Sponsors

• Unipath Labs, Gold sponsor