News Archive
2023
Harsh presented his thesis colloquium on 'Integrating Computational Tools and Models to Study RNA Virus Lifecycle Dynamics'. (04/2023)
2022
Our work on using Suspended Lipid Membrane Systems for probing membrane dynamics is now available on the Membranes journal (11/2022)
Check out our first JOVE article on creating crowded lipid bilayers for single-molecule analysis on biomembranes! (07/2022)
Priyanka's preprint on Quantification of nucleic acids using endpoint measurement (qeRPA) BioRxiv (06/2022) [in press: Anal. Chemistry]
A new DNA dengue vaccine designed and developed!! Check out our joint work published in Molecular Therapy with NCBS and other institutes (01/2022)
Suraj presented his thesis colloquium on 'Understanding the interplay between immune response and virus evolution'. (12/2022)
Suraj's work on Dengue virus evolution in India wins the Best Poster award at the Virus Genomics and Evolution meeting at the Wellcome Center, UK! (11/2022)
Debdyuti Nandy joins C-CAMP Bangalore as their new Program Manager for Entrepreneurship (09/2022)
Lots of new science at the Biomembranes22 meeting! Satya and a lot of team members presented their new work. (09/2022)
Ratnasri K wins the Best Poster Award at the Biophysical Society Stockholm thematic meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance 2022 (09/2022)
We are excited to have three new group members: Ameena Mohd. (a BSMS graduate from IISER Kolkata), Sridivya Bhagavatula (a MSc graduate from NIV Pune) and Muhsin Chalil (a BSMS graduate from IISER Trivandrum)! (2022)
Congratulations to Satyaghosh Maurya from Department of Chemical Engineering for successfully defending his PhD thesis! (03/2022)
Congratulations to Priyanka V from Department of Chemical Engineering for successfully defending her PhD thesis! (02/2022)
Congratulations to Sunaina Banerjee from Molecular Biophysics Unit for successfully defending her PhD thesis! (01/2022)
Congratulations to Kavya Shetty for getting selected to the PhD program at the Vienna BioCenter, Austria (01/2022)
2021
Preprint of our joint work with Ganapathy Ayappa's lab on PFT conformational flexibility is now online (10/2021)
Our SARS-CoV2 serology assay is now published in the Journal of Virological Methods (07/2021) Congratulations to the team!!
Harsh's preprint on viral life cycle dynamics of positive sense RNA viruses is online: BioRxiv (09/2020); now published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface (10/2021)
Sree Priyanka joins the Master's program in Life Sciences at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (12/2021)
Congratulations to Saranya M from Molecular Biophysics Unit for successfully defending her PhD thesis! (12/2021)
Aditya Upasani is selected for the CII-SERB Prime Minister's Fellowship for Doctoral Research 2021. (11/2021)
Priyanka V presented her thesis colloquium on 'Droplet isothermal amplification for nucleic acid quantification'. (09/2021)
Satyaghosh Maurya presented his thesis colloquium on 'Elucidating the action of pore forming toxins on lipid membranes using single molecule fluorescence techniques'. (09/2021)
Sunaina Banerjee presented her thesis colloquium on 'Integrative modeling of NS3 helicase function with molecular kinetics, structural dynamics and machine learning'. (07/2021)
Saranya M presented her thesis colloquium on 'Quantitative sequencing of single RNA virus variants'. (06/2021)
Debdyuti Nandy joins our team as a Post-Doctoral fellow (04/2021). She joins us after completing her PhD from IICB/Univ of Calcutta.
Achinta Sannigrahi is selected for the prestigious SERB National Post-Doctoral fellowship (01/2021) Congratulations!!
2020
Vaseef Rizvi is the first Molecular Biophysics Unit student to defend his PhD thesis. Congratulations! (06/2020)
HFSP research grant awarded to us along with Stefan Howorka Lab (University College London, UK) and Aleksei Aksimentiev Lab (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) to study membrane fusion (04/2020)
Rahul wins the BPS 2020 Travel Award for his poster presentation 'PORE ASSEMBLY OF BACTERIAL ALPHA PORE-FORMING TOXIN (PFT), CYTOLYSIN A ON LIPID MEMBRANES' at the Biophysical Society 64th Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA (02/2020)
Harsh's preprint on viral life cycle dynamics of positive sense RNA viruses in now online: BioRxiv (09/2020)
Vaseef's preprint on JE virus ribosome profiling that describes so many new tricks that the virus uses during translation of its proteome is out in BioRxiv (07/2020)
2019
Jatin's first paper on using Fusible alloy for Microfluidic Impedance Cytometry is out in Microelectronic Engineering (05/2019)
We welcome new members; Deepali Pathak (Research Associate), Rakhi Sharma (Project Assistant) and Neova Paul (Visiting Project student) to the lab (08/2019)
Saurabh Umrao, our third lab member submits his thesis! Congratulations to Saurabh as he joins Ernst & Young, Bangalore (06/2019)
Jatin Panwar, the first PhD candidate from the lab defends his thesis on single cell analysis with droplet microfluidics (06/2019) Congratulations and good luck as he heads to EMBL, Heidelberg for his post-doc!
Welcome to Twinkle Gupta and Tanvi Kaku (new research fellows joining the lab) (06/2019)
Our work on smartphone based sensing of antibiotic kanamycin is accepted in RSC advances (02/2019)
Welcoming new lab members: Swastik Hedge (SRF) and Twinkle Gupta (External MS intern) to the lab (01/2019)
2018
Satyaghosh wins the Zeeshan Khan Memorial award at the Bangalore Microscopy Course 2018 for his paper with Pradeep on pore forming toxin, Cytolysin A (09/2018)
Our joint work with Ayappa Lab and Visweswariah Lab on pore-forming toxin, Cytolysin A is online in PNAS (07/2018)
Harsh Chajjer is selected for the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship 2018 (05/2018)
Narendra and Subhasish's immunologic model to explain EOT+/SVR is accepted in Immunology and Cell Biology. Kudos to Subhasish! (04/2018)
Thrombin aptamer based detection using PIFE by Saurabh is published in Sensors and Actuators: Chemical. Congrats! (04/2018)
Our review on 'Single molecule Virology' for Journal of Biosciences is in press. Terrific work by Sunaina and Satya. (03/2018)
We file patent for a new method for quantification of biomolecules. Great ideas from Jatin and Priyanka. IPA # 201841012166 (03/2018)
Jatin's first manuscript on fusible microelectrodes based impedance cytometry is on bioRxiv (03/2018).
2017
Congratulations to Jatin for filing his first patent! Indian Patent application (#20174105044) titled title: “ Microstructured electrodes and method thereof ” (12/2017)
Suraj Jagtap got selected in to the PhD programme in Chemical Engineering at IISc. He will be joining from Jan 2018 session (12/2017).
Harsh Chajjer (BSSE) and Rohit Dutta (MBU) joined the lab (07/2017).
Satyaghosh wins the Best Poster Award on his work on 'Pore forming Toxins' at the Indian Biophysical Society Meeting (IBS 2017) in Mohali (03/2017).
2016
Monisha joined our team as a Junior Research Fellow (04/2016).
Lakshmi Rangaswamy is our new lab manager (04/2016).
Suraj Jagtap joined our lab as a part of Chemical Engg. ME program (01/2016).
Jatin and Saurabh win the Best Oral and Poster presentations at the ChemE IISc Symposium 2016 respectively (02/2016).
2015
Priyanka wins the Ambuja’s Young Researcher’s Award (ChemCon) for her MTech thesis (12/2015).
Satyaghosh Maurya and Priyanka join our lab as part of the Chemical Engg. PhD program (9/2015).