Day 1: Monday, September 22nd 2025
Time Event   Venue
08:00 - 09:00 Registrations & Breakfast JN TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall
09:00 - 09:20 Welcome & Introductions JN TATA Auditorium
09:20 - 10:20 Technical Plenary 1 - Sindhu Radhakrishna
“Animal Agency, Human Compassion and Wildlife Conservation"
JN TATA Auditorium
10:20 - 12:20 Student Talks: Session 1 JN TATA Auditorium
10:20 - 10:40 Network analysis reveals wind energy impact on waterbird movements in Mannar; a critical site of the Central Asian Flyway Gayomini Panagoda  
10:40 - 11:00 Hidden Hierarchies: Exploring Gender Power and Inequality in Human-Wildlife Interactions through Feminist Political Ecology in Assam Northeast India Himangshu Kalita  
11:00 - 11:20 Break  
11:20 - 11:40 Wildlife vs Checkboxes—Why qualitative enquiry matters in human-wildlife studies Juno Negi  
11:40 - 12:00 Bear- Human Relationship in and around Hampi a Relational Perspective Mohammed Hisham  
12:00 - 12:20 Microplastic ingestion and associated histopathology in Pelagic Seabirds of Sri Lanka Sandani Iresha  
12:20 - 13:00 Session on POSH   JN TATA Auditorium
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch JN TATA - Dining Hall
14:00 - 16:30 Short Workshops Resource Person Venue
S1 Theatre for environmental justice: an introduction Yams Srikanth, Stella James Seminar Hall C
S2 Smart Moves: Mapping Evolutionary Flexibility in Animals (Using phylogenetic tools to trace adaptability for conservation insight) Deyatima Ghosh, Dr. Maitreya Sil CES Conference Hall
S3 Inking Nature: A Nature Journaling Workshop Sambita Modak, Sikha Hariharan Seminar Hall B
S4 Tree Identification and Phenology: Basic Workshop Sayee Girdhari Seminar Hall A
S5 ‘Okay, but what’s the story?’ - A guide to reading and synthesizing research papers Anish Paul, Pritha Dey, Malavika Kamath CES Reading Room
S6 Language and Ecology - Communicating Nature through Local Languages P. Jeganathan, Pooja Pawar Main Audi
S7 Conservation Careers: Careers in Ecology, Environmental Science, and Sustainability Studies Pankaj Koparde, Prasad Kulkarni CES Seminar Hall
S8 How to utilize iNaturalist data for Conservation and Research Projects Paul Antony Mangaly, Aditya Bari CES Classroom
16:30 - 16:50 Tea Break   JN TATA - Dining Hall
16:50 - 18:00 Student Posters - Session 1 JN TATA - Lobby
18:00 - 19:00 Popular Open Plenary 1 - Geetha Ramaswami
“Seeing the Season's Signs: how citizen science is helping document changes in biodiversity”
JN TATA Auditorium
19:00 - 20:00 Loris Walk/ Nocturnal Species Walk IISc Campus
Day 2: Tuesday, September 23rd 2025
Time Event   Venue
07:00 - 08:00 Bird Walk/ Tree Walk   IISc Campus
08:00 - 09:00 Registrations & Breakfast   JN TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall
09:00 - 11:30 Long Workshops Resource Person Venue
L1 Animal behaviour and its role in conservation Devica Ranade, Nishant Srinivasaiah, Samira Agnihotri, Ishika Ramakrishna Seminar Hall A
L2 How R you doing? Using the R platform for managing and analyzing ecological datasets Raman Kumar, Mukesh Kandpal Physics Dept - LH-01
L3 Plant Identification: Advanced Workshop Bibidishananda Basu, Arun Kumar N, Gauravya Mohan, Sayee Girdhari Physics Dept - LH-05
L4 Fellowship and grant writing in Ecological Sciences Sabuj Bhattacharyya, Chandrima Home Bio Chemistry Hall
L5 Qualitative Research in Conservation: Power, Positionality and Practice Budhaditya Das, Venkat Ramanujam Seminar Hall B
L6 Foundations of Conservation and Nature Education: frameworks, design, practice and ethics Priyanka Prakash, Vena Kapoor, Rachita Sinha CES Classroom
L7 Map with Biswa: An introduction to GIS & Mapping using QGIS Biswa Bhusana Mahapatra CES Reading Room
L8 Thorny Subjects: Conducting Interviews On Conservation-Induced Conflict Madhuri Ramesh, Sagarika Phalke CES Conference Hall
L9 Crafting Narratives for a Fragile World Megha Moorthy, Radhika Raj KI Vasu Hall
L10 Liberating GIS for environmental monitoring Paul Pop CES Seminar Hall
L11 Analysing count data – fitting and interpreting Generalised Linear Models (GLMs) Kavita Isvaran CES Lotka Voltera
L12 Games for Conservation Peeyush Sekhsaria, Priti Bangal, Karthik Natarajan, Prasad Sandbhor Seminar Hall C
L13 Biacoustics in Conservation Viral Joshi, Taksh Sangwan, Rohit Chakravarty, Isha Bopardikar, Divya Panicker, Seema Lokhandwala Main Auditorium
11:30 - 11:50 Tea Break    
11:50 - 13:00 Long Workshops    
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch   JN TATA - Dining Hall
14:00 - 16:30 Long Workshops    
16:30 - 16:50 Tea Break    
16:50 - 18:00 Who's Who in Conservation - Session 1   JN TATA - Lobby
18:00 - 19:00 Careers in Conservation - Panel Discussion   JN TATA Auditorium
19:00 - 20:00 Film Screening: My Otter Diary by Sugandhi Gadadhar and team   JN TATA Auditorium
Day 3: Wednesday, September 24th 2025
Time Event   Venue
07:00 - 08:00 Bird Walk/ Tree Walk IISc Campus
08:00 - 09:00 Registrations & Breakfast JN TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall
09:00 - 10:00 Technical Plenary 2 - Sammy Wambua
“Navigating Conservation Genomics in East Africa: A Personal Journey, Practical Lessons, and a Vision for Equitable Science”
JN TATA Auditorium
10:00 - 12:00 Student Talks - Session 2  
10:00 - 10:20 Rethinking River Dependence: Water-Society Interactions Along the Tamiraparani in Tirunelveli District Tamil Nadu Sneha Shahi JN TATA Auditorium
10:20 - 10:40 Wave Action Mediates Coral Reef Community Structure and Divergent Post-Bleaching Recovery Trajectories in the Andaman Islands Chaitanya Arjunwadkar JN TATA Auditorium
10:40 - 11:00 Community Perspectives on the Return of Elephants to the Bandhavgarh Landscape Siddharth Dixit JN TATA Auditorium
11:00 - 11:20 Break    
11:20 - 11:40 Ooty this summer? Using Citizen Science to Track Avian Elevational Migration in the Nilgiris. Faizee Ali Khan JN TATA Auditorium
11:40 - 12:00 Coffee removal benefits native plant recruitment in abandoned coffee agroforests of Western Ghats Abhirami C JN TATA Auditorium
12:00 - 12:15 Group Photo   JN TATA - Dining Hall
12:15 - 13:00 Who's Who in Conservation - Session 2   JN TATA - Lobby
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch   JN TATA - Dining Hall
14:00 - 16:30 Short Workshops Resource Person Venue
S1 Study design in ecology and conservation Kavita Isvaran Seminar Hall A
S2 Data detox in R - Clean, wrangle, and transform your ecological data Swapna Nelaballi CES Classroom
S3 Reading trees: Ways to connect with nature Narayan Sharma, Sudeshna Gupta Seminar Hall B
S4 Baby steps of communicating conservation research through print and social media Jithin V, Rishika Pardikar Main Audi
S5 Using Open Data for Better Environmental Protection Aishani Goswami, Rhea Lopez, Siddharth Agarwal CES Lotka Voltera
S6 Tangled Data, Tangible Tales: Ecological Data to Storytelling Sambita Modak, Chandrima Home CES Seminar Hall
S7 Telling Wild Stories: A Visual Toolkit for Conservationists Sohail Madan, Abhishek Paliwal KI Vasu Hall
S8 The Empire Floats Back: River Systems and Their Stakeholders Sneha Shahi Seminar Hall C
S9 Sensors in the Field: Low-Cost Ecological Monitoring with Arduino Rakesh Khanna A CES Reading Room
S10 Bat Acoustic Data Recording, Processing and Analyses: New Approaches and Automation Kadambari Deshpande, Vedant Barje CES Conference Hall
16:30 - 16:50 Tea Break   JN TATA - Dining Hall
16:50 - 18:00 Student Posters: Session 2   JN TATA - Lobby
18:00 - 19:00 Popular Open Plenary 2 - Bhargavi Rao
“Climate Justice: Grounding Climate Action in Equity, Rights, and Resistance”
  JN TATA Auditorium
19:00 - 20:00 Loris Walk/ Nocturnal Species Walk IISc Campus
Day 4: Thursday, September 25th 2025
Time Event   Venue
07:00 - 08:00 Bird Walk/ Tree Walk   IISc Campus
08:00 - 09:00 Registrations & Breakfast   JN TATA - Lobby & Dining Hall
09:00 - 10:00 Technical Plenary 3 - Ajit Menon
“Life Below Water: Communities, Conservation and the Political Ecology of the Coast”
JN TATA Auditorium
10:00 - 12:00 Student Talks - Session 3 JN TATA Auditorium
10:00 - 10:20 The vulnerability of endemic vertebrates in Sri Lanka to climate change Iresha Wijerathne  
10:20 - 10:40 Small Rays Big Threats: Quantifying Microplastics in Scaly Whipray (Brevitrygon walga) Aaheli Bera  
10:40 - 11:00 Between Tradition and Transition: The Narikuravar’s Hunting Practices Praisy Swetha S  
11:00 - 11:20 Break  
11:20 - 11:40 Seabird Diversity and Bycatch in Fisheries at the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Sri Lanka Dinal Meecle  
11:40 - 12:00 Overcoming Linnean and Wallacean shortfalls in Melon barbs (Teleosti: Cyprinidae: Haludaria) endemic to the Western Ghats of India Shubhika Pandey  
12:00 - 13:00 Birds of A Feather: Themed Networking Session JN TATA Premises
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch JN TATA - Dining Hall
14:00 - 16:30 Short Workshops Resource Person Venue
S1 Living Landscapes: Connecting Communities with Conservation Dr. Archana Bhatt, Dr Vipindas Seminar Hall A
S2 Research with fishers and other ecological knowledge holders Andrea Phillott, Chetan Rao CES Classroom
S3 Sound and its Sensory Experiences in Shaping human-animal Relationships and Interactions Dr. Samira Agnihotri, Seema Lokhandwala Main Audi
S4 Habitat microclimate: importance and collection methods Dr Aavika Dhanda, Rohan Baishya CES Reading Room
S5 Telling Stories That Matter: Can Storytelling Be a Scientific Tool for Conservation Impact? Shruti Ghosh, Jeremiah Kennedy CES Conference Hall
S6 Finding, telling and sharing stories of conservation and natural history using archives Anjali Ramachandran, Nisha Bhakat Seminar Hall B
S7 Using eBird Data for Ecology and Conservation Faizee Ali Khan, Ashwin Vishwanathan, Tarun Menon CES Lotka Voltera
S8 WIldlife content creation and engaging people through social media Kayden Anthony, Sandra Pereira Seminar Hall C
S9 Let’s talk SDMs: The why and how of designing your own distribution modelling study Imran Samad, Divyashree Rana CES Seminar Hall
16:30 - 16:50 Tea Break JN TATA - Dining Hall
17:30 - 18:30 Popular Open Plenary 3 - Raza Kazmi
“Tracks from the Past: Importance of Historical Research in Conservation and Wildlife Science”
JN TATA Auditorium
18:30 - 19:30 Closing Ceremony JN TATA Auditorium