Talks
Selected Talk, Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes Gordon Research Conference, Lucca, Italy, 2025
Title: Noggin-mediated modulation of BMP signaling contributes to cardiac neural crest identity
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Keynote Speaker, Avian Model Systems Conference, University of Portsmouth, UK, 2023
Title: Avian embryos as a model to study cardiac neural crest development
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Selected Talk, Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes Gordon Research Conference, Lucca, Italy, 2023
Title: A “cardiactomesenchymal” neural crest subpopulation in the hindbrain governs outflow tract septation
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Invited Talk, Department of Chemical Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2023
Title: Neural crest at the heart of development
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Invited Talk, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 2022
Title: Neural crest at the heart of development: unraveling multifaceted regulation of cell fate
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Invited Talk, Michael Sars Centre for Marine Biology, University of Bergen, Norway, 2022
Title: From embryos to organoids: Neural crest at the heart of development
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Invited Seminar, Bioinformatics in Biology Seminar Series, Caltech, USA, 2021 (Virtual)
Title: Seq your destiny - Neural crest plasticity and determination of cell fate
Selected Talk, Northwest Developmental Biology Meeting, 2021 (Virtual)
Title: A single-plasmid approach for genome editing coupled with long-term lineage analysis in chick embryos
Selected Talk, Weinstein Webinar on Cardiac Lineages and Heart Fields, 2020 (Virtual)
Title: Genetic determinants of the unique developmental potential of the cardiac neural crest lineage
Invited Seminar, Center for Molecular Medicine Seminar Series, Caltech, USA, 2020 (Virtual)
Title: Neural crest plasticity and its application to rescuing congenital heart defects
Selected Talk, ASCB|EMBO Cell Bio Virtual Meeting, 2020 (Virtual)
Title: Bimodal function of chromatin remodeler Hmga1 in neural crest induction and Wnt dependent emigration
Selected Talk, Single Cell Biology Virtual Conference, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK, 2020 (Virtual)
Title: Dissection of the global gene regulatory network governing cardiac neural crest development
Selected Talk, Keystone eSymposia on Tissue Plasticity: Preservation and Alteration of Cellular Identity, Colorado, USA, 2020 (Virtual)
Title: Reprogramming axial level identity to rescue neural-crest-related congenital heart defects
Selected Talk, Northwest Developmental Biology Meeting, 2020 (Virtual)
Title: Bimodal function of chromatin remodeler Hmga1 in neural crest induction and Wnt dependent emigration
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Selected Talk, Caltech Biology and Biological Engineering Retreat, Long Beach, CA, USA, 2019
Title: Reprogramming neural crest axial identity to rescue congenital heart defects
Selected Talk, 82nd Annual Seminar Day, Caltech, USA, 2019
Title: Healing a broken heart – fixing congenital heart defects with genetically reprogrammed cells
Selected Talk, Society for Developmental Biology West Coast Regional Meeting, Yosemite, USA, 2017
Title: An optimized system for robust genome editing in chicken embryos using CRISPR/Cas9
Selected Talk, 43rd Indian Society of Nephrology Conference, Gujarat, India, 2012
Title: Systems Biology through microarray – a newer paradigm in understanding Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
Posters
Poster, International Society for Stem Cell Research, San Francisco, 2022
Title: One-step generation of tumor models by base editor multiplexing in adult stem cell-derived organoids
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Poster, Weinstein Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration conference, Marseille, France, 2022
Title: Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of the chick cardiac neural crest from induction through migration
Poster, 78th Society for Developmental Biology meeting, Boston, USA, 2019
Title: Reprogramming neural crest cell identity to rescue congenital heart defects
Poster, 8th International Tunicate Meeting, Aomori, Japan, 2015
Title: Tissue-specific functional genomics using CRISPR/Cas9 in Ciona intestinalis
Poster, 17th M.S. Poster presentation session, Department of Biology, NYU, New York, USA, 2015
Title: CRISPR/Cas9-mediated tissue-specific mutagenesis in the ascidian, Ciona intestinalis
Poster, Keystone Symposia on Precision Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Montana, USA, 2015
Title: A next generation sequencing-based approach to validate a CRISPR/Cas9 genetic screen library for Ciona intestinalis
Poster, 16th M.S. Poster presentation session, Department of Biology, NYU, New York, USA, 2014
Title: CRISPR/Cas9-mediated tissue-specific mutagenesis in the ascidian, Ciona intestinalis
Poster, 6th Chandigarh Science Congress, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, 2012
Title: Gankyrin: a potential target for drug therapy against hepatocellular carcinoma