Invited Lectures & Scientific Sessions

Delivered an invited lecture titled “Decoding GM2-Synthase in Cancer: From Sp1–HDAC1–p300 Regulation to Tumor Progression” in IPGME&R (PG Hospital) on August 27, 2026.

Invited to Judge the NIBMG Science Model Competition by PhD students and deliver an invited lecture titled "Transcriptional Control of the GM2-synthase gene in Cancer: Reciprocal Regulation of SP1 & HDAC1 by p300" on May 08, 2026 at the NIBMG, Kalyani.

Invited to act as the Chairman of the session titled “Immunotherapy-Achievements and Future Directions” on April 11, 2026, as part of the Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Cancer Research (IACR) held in the University of Kashmir, Srinagar during April 10-13, 2026.

Delivered an invited lecture titled “Glycobiology of tumorigenesis: The GM2 Saga” at GSI (Biophysics), Darmstadt, Germany on 12.03.2026 as part of a visit to the Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (FAIR)-GSI, Darmstadt, Germany during March 10-24, 2026, for initiating collaborations with FAIR-GSI and Bose Institute.

Delivered an invited lecture titled “HATp300 mediates reciprocal regulation of SP1 and Smads in the Transcriptional activation of the GM2-synthase gene in Cancer” at the Annual Conference of The Cytometry Society (TCS), held at the Tata Medical Center, Kolkata during Nov 1-2, 2025.

Delivered an invited lecture titled “Transcriptional Control of the GM2-synthase gene in Cancer: The Sp1-HDAC1-p300 Enigma” in the 22nd Transcriptional Assembly Meeting held during March 19-21, 2025, at the Unified Academic Campus (UAC) in Bose Institute, Kolkata.

Invited Delivered an invited lecture titled “Transcriptional Control of the GM2-synthase gene in Cancer: The SP1-HDAC1-p300 Enigma” in the 44th Annual Meeting of the Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR), held at Biswa Bangla Convention Center, Kolkata during January 16-18, 2025.

Acted as the Co-Chair for the scientific session in the National Symposium titled “Symphony of Cellular Signals in Metabolism and Immune Response” under the event “SNU BioTalk 2025” organized by the Dept. of Biotechnology, Sister Nivedita University (SNU), Kolkata on January 17, 2025.

Acted as the Chairman of the Organizing Committee for a One-Day Symposium titled “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern Biology” organized by the Department of Biological Sciences, Bose Institute, Kolkata on June 21, 2024.

Chaired a scientific session on Cell Signaling in the 2nd International conference titled “Physiology to Pathology: Finding the Therapeutic Roadmap” organized by Amity University, Kolkata during March 7-9, 2024.

Delivered an Invited Lecture titled “De-repression of GM2-synthase Transcription by Sp1-HDAC1 in Cancer” in National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)-Kolkata on Feb 28, 2024, on the occasion of National Science Day Celebration 2024.

Participated as a invited panelist in a discussion themed “Developing the Triple Helix: Game plan to establish Centre of Excellence for Advanced Proteomics and Genomics Research” in the YIM-Kolkata Chapter Meeting during December 06-07, 2023 at Presidency University, Kolkata, organized jointly by the premier Research Institutes and Universities in West Bengal.

Presented an invited talk titled “GM2-synthase transcriptional regulation in Cancer: The Sp1-HDAC1 story” in BIONEXT 2023 during October 4-6, 2023, organized by the School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Adamas University, Barasat.

Participated in a Recorded On-Air Popular Bengali Radio Program on “G20 and Cancer” in Akashvani Kolkata Radio on July 7, 2023, broadcasted on August 6, 2023, at 8:00 am.

Presented an invited talk titled “Acetylation-mediated loss of Sp1-HDAC1 cause de-repression of the GM2-synthase gene in Cancer” as part of the ongoing SBC(I) Kolkata Chapter’s online monthly seminar series on June 14, 2023.

Participated in a Live On-Air Popular Bengali Television Program named “Bignyan Prosonge” in Doordarshan Bangla on “Cancer Research and the Applications of Contemporary Molecular Biology tools in Cancer Research” on March 29, 2023, at 4:30 pm.

Presented an invited talk titled “Understanding the Epigenetic Regulation of the GM2-synthase gene in Cancer” in the Symposium on Human Disease and Therapeutics: A Lifelong Quest organized by JIS Institute of Advanced Studies and Research on Feb 24, 2023.

Presented an invited talk titled “Acetylation-mediated loss of Sp1-HDAC1 cause de-repression of the GM2-synthase gene in Cancer” as part of the DST-SERB sponsored Karyashala organized by the Dept. of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur on December 15, 2022.

Presented an invited talk titled “Epigenetic Regulation of GM2-synthase gene in Cancer” in the 91st SBC-I Annual Meeting held in Kolkata on 8-11 December 2022.

Presented an invited talk titled “Genome Editing: Past, Present and Future” as part of the 5-Day online Faculty Development Program titled “Applications of CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing Tool” during 7-11th February 2022 organized by Department of Biotechnology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT).

Presented an invited talk titled “Understanding Carcinogenesis: Multidirectional Role of Gangliosides in Tumor Growth, Progression and Metastasis” at the Faculty Development Lecture Series organized by Swami Vivekananda University, on August 06, 2021.

Presented an invited talk titled “Cancer Immunotherapy at The Crossroads-Modulating the Accelerators & Brakes for Optimal Outcome” at the One-Day National Level Seminar and Poster presentation competition organized by the Swami Vivekananda Research Center (SVRC) on “How to Checkmate Cancer – the Emperor of all Maladies” organized by the Dept. of Zoology at Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math on Mar 06, 2020.

Presented an invited talk titled “Understanding Carcinogenesis: Multidirectional Role of Gangliosides in Tumor Growth, Progression and Metastasis”, at the national seminar as part of the curtain raiser event of the “India International Science Festival”, organized by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) on Nov 27, 2020.