Conferences: talks and poster presentations

Talks 

1. Delivered a talk titled “Spatially resolved transcriptomic profiling revealed BMP-signaling dependent role of Mfap4 in regulating neuronal migration during cerebral cortex development,” at the Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms of Development and Regeneration (CMMDR 2026), 6–9 January 2026 , held at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR, India.

2. Delivered a talk titled “Spatially resolved transcriptomic profiling revealed BMP-signalling dependent target genes which control neuronal migration during cerebral cortex development,” at the 48th All India Cell Biology Conference and Symposium, December 7-9, 2025, held at IIT Kanpur, India.

3. Delivered a talk titled “Spatially resolved transcriptomic profiling identifies BMP-signalling target genes controlling neuronal migration during cerebral cortex development” at IRS 2025 (Institute Research Symposium) at IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, November 7-9, 2025.

4. Delivered a talk titled “Spatially resolved transcriptomic profiling identifies BMP-signalling target genes controlling neuronal migration during cortex development” at IAN 2025-Young Scientist Colloquium-I, 31st Oct 2025, at Trivandrum, India.

5. Delivered a flash talk titled “Signals shape the cortex: BMP signalling and its novel targets in cortical development” at Gordon Research Conference: Developmental Biology-Emergence of Shapes and Patterns in Development, March 30 - April 4, 2025, Pomona, California, United States.

6. Delivered a flash talk titled “Leveraging spatial transcriptomics to unravel diverse roles of BMP signalling in cortical development” at BSBE Day 2024, on 28th September 2024, IIT Kanpur, India.
   
   

Poster Presentations 

1. Nitin Agnihotri, Jonaki Sen. “Spatially resolved transcriptomic profiling revealed BMP-signaling dependent role of Mfap4 in regulating neuronal migration during cerebral cortex development,” at the Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms of Development and Regeneration (CMMDR 2026), 6–9 January 2026, held at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR, India.

2. Nitin Agnihotri, Jonaki Sen. "Bmp signalling in cortical development: Novel insights into neuronal migration and polarity", InSDB-ISD joint meeting 2025,  14-Dec to 17-Dec, 2025 at IISER Berhampur, Berhampur, India.

3. Nitin Agnihotri, Jonaki Sen. "Leveraging Spatial and Bulk Transcriptomics to investigate how BMP signaling assays diverse roles in cerebral corticogenesis", 20th International Congress of Developmental Biology, June 18, 2025 - June 22, 2025, Sheraton Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR.

4. Nitin Agnihotri, Meenu Kumari, Asutosh Behera, Shreya Yadav, Sandeep Verma, Jonaki Sen. "Developing novel, indigenous and affordable therapeutic interventions for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)", in Pan-IIT Meeting and Conference on Engineering in Medicine, 6th – 8th December 2024, IIT Kanpur, India.

5. Nitin Agnihotri, Meenu Kumari, Asutosh Behera, Shreya Yadav, Sandeep Verma, Jonaki Sen. "Developing a non-invasive delivery platform for bio-activity across BBB in Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) therapy", IITK Samanvay 2024, a groundbreaking initiative by IIT Kanpur to bridge the existing gap between industry and academia, 28th and 29th November 2024 at IIT Kanpur, India.

6. Nitin Agnihotri, Jonaki Sen. "Unravelling how BMP signalling essays diverse roles during cortical development", 25th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience (ISDN 2024) 21-24 September 2024. Montpellier, France.

7. Nitin Agnihotri, Jonaki Sen. "Unravelling how BMP signalling essays diverse roles during cortical development", Self-Organisation in Biology: Freiburg Spemann-Mangold Centennial Symposium, 16-19 September 2024, University of Freiburg, Germany.

8. Nitin Agnihotri, Jonaki Sen. "Unravelling how BMP signalling essays diverse roles during cortical development", Gordon Research Seminar: Cellular Beginnings, Circuit Endings: Building Diverse Nervous Systems in Development, July 27 - 28, 2024, Lucca (Barga), Italy.

9. Nitin Agnihotri, Jonaki Sen. "Unravelling how BMP signalling essays diverse roles during cortical development", Gordon Research Conference: Neural Development. Developmental Basis of Nervous System Diversity: Molecular, Cellular, and Organismal Levels, July 28 - August 2, 2024, Lucca (Barga), Italy. 

10. Nitin Agnihotri, Jonaki Sen. "BMP signaling and its downstream molecules during cerebral cortex development", Biennial Meeting of the Indian Society of Developmental Biologists (InSDB) 2018, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India

11. Nitin Agnihotri, Jonaki Sen. "BMP signaling: mechanistic insights into cortex development",  Xth Bangalore Microscopy Course, organised at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), during 16-23 September 2018, Bangalore, India.

12. Nitin Agnihotri, Monika Saxena, Jonaki Sen. "BMP signalling and radial migration of cortical neurons". in the 18th Congress of the International Society of Developmental Biologists (ISDB), National University of Singapore, 18th-22nd June 2017.