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Lab@2025
Lab@2025
Aditya Aggrawal, Soumyadeep Guha, and Aarya Gupta join the group for the summer internship.
Aditi Jha and Manasvi Singh will start the internship from 2nd June 2025.
I will be teaching the NPTEL theory course "Cell Signaling" (8 weeks) starting from 18th August 2025. Interested candidates can visit https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_bt88/preview and register.
An NPTEL workshop on "Recombinant DNA Technologies" in July 2025. Interested candidates, check the flyer on the right for details. (https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX1vRvELu0xZ3dqLX9 khYYynoO1Ml9aZlt6NFNsUomK56HILdTeBiVMUtqEwDCymhmDDDQPMbwK0D3p5yI/pub)
Rohit and Shaunak submitted their MS theses and will be receiving their degrees in the upcoming 12th Convocation of IISER Bhopal.
Anushka, Lisupriya, and Shambhavi are joining the lab for the MS-thesis work in the academic year 2025-26.
Pradyumna defended his thesis on 14th May 2025. The viva committee had Dr. Jomon Joseph from NCCS as examiner. Thanks, Aasheesh, Vimlesh, and Chandan for help in conducting the viva.
NSBG proudly proudly stands with the Nation in saluting the Indian Armed Forces for the remarkable success of "Operation Sindoor".
Garima and Divya attended the 40th MP young scientist congress 2025 held at Vikram University, Ujjain.
Garima received Silver medal for presenting her work at MPYSC 2025.
Lakhan visited lab after a long time. He shared his work and experience with us.
Presented cytoskeleton SUMOylation studies at M2T2_2025@IIT Jodhpur.
Garima and Harsh presented posters and Garima received a Travel award in M2T2 meeting.
Attended Pro-UPS2025 with Garima and Harsh in SRM University Chennai.
Visited Dr. Shaker Jha at SASTRA University, Thanjavur after a gap of 7 years.
Congratulations to Jyotsna for her eLife article describing role of Nup107 in Ecdysone-dependent metamorphosis in Drosophila. doi: 10.7554/eLife.105165.1
Congratulations to Surya and all authors including Jyotsna, and Pradyumna for the Cellulose nano-particle article in ACS Applied materials and interfaces. doi: 10.1021/acsami.4c17239
Lab@2024
Lab@2024
December 31: Pradyumna submits his PhD thesis.
Manoj Patel and Smit Nimesh Patel join the NSBG to pursue PhD.
4th Day long NSBG lab meeting on 6th November 2024. It was followed by a memory saturating visually appealing trip to Orchha (Ram Raja temple, Orchha palace, Chaturbhuj temple, Chhatris, and River rafting on Betwa River), Gwalior (Gwalior fort, Light and sound show, and Jay Vilas palace), Bateshwar group of temples, Morena (Reassembled temples from ruins, Mahadev temple), Padawali and Mitawali (Mahadev temples).
Attended the 15th Nucleocytoplasmic transport (NCT) meeting (20-25th October) held at Hyeres, Southern part of France. Incredible experience of sharing thought and ideas with stalwarts in the field of NCT and NPC Biology.
Ashley, Aditi Chaudhary, and Aditi Dekate graduated with BS-MS and MSc degrees. Ashley has joined. Ashley was declared as the winner of the Proficiency Medal in Biological Sciences. He has joined IMPRS, Munster, Germany, for a PhD.
Jyotsna won First prize in Life Sciences the MP Young Scientist Award at the event held at Madhav Institute of Science and Technology, Gwalior.
Lab@2023
Lab@2023
3rd Day long NSBG lab meeting then a memorable trip to Pachmarhi. The stay at NCBS field station and an outreach for kids at Pachmarhi was very entertaining. Visits to Ramya-Kund, Dhoop garh, Ridge caves, Pandav caves and Handi Khoh are still fresh and etched in the memory for ever.
Smrithi and Agastya graduate with BS-MS degree in July 2023. Smrithi will join Dr. Angela's group in IGBMC, France for her PhD.
Ashley and Aditi Chaudhary (BS-MS) and Aditi Dekate (MSc) join the lab for their MSc thesis work. Aditi Chaudhary joins the Biosantexc Project at ENS Rennes to conduct project work on antibiotic resistance.
Congratulations, Ashley for achieving success in the CSIR-NET (JRF).
NSBG welcomes Nikita Sharma as a PhD student. She will work with Nups, particularly Nup133, assessing its function in Drosophila development.
The Nup88 study highlighting its interaction with Nup62 and associated Nup88 stability and activation of anti-apoptotic, pro-inflammatory, and pro-growth pathways as a mechanism of oral cancer is published in Frontiers in Oncology (doi: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1095046) Congratulations to Usha and Divya for their hard work.
Lab@2022
Lab@2022
2nd One day long lab meeting was convened at Surya Resort, Jabalpur. Scientific ambience and prime of nature was enjoyed thoroughly.
We are joyous to see a chapter on SUMOylation methods published in Methods in Enzymology (doi: 10.1016/bs.mie.2022.07.017), and collaborative works getting published in Life Science Alliance (doi: 10.26508/lsa.202201415), Nature Communication (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-33772-1), Bioconjugate Chemistry (doi: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.2c00454), and Chem Commun (doi: 10.1039/d2cc04196k).
Surya Dev Mishra got First prize in the MP Young Scientist Award in Chemistry.
NSBG welcomes Kaveri AS and Akshita Gupta as PhD students. Kaveri, an alumnus of the lab, will work on assessing the functions of Nuceloporin (Nup) SUMOylation on their function, while Akshita will focus on studying the nucleoporins functions in immune cell (PBMCs and PMNs).
Sajeev will receive his PhD degree in the convocation to be held on 3rd July 2022.
Aswini and Girish also graduated with BS-MS degree to be awarded in the convocation.
Smrithi KS joins lab to work on her MS thesis project. She will be studying dElys in company of Pradyumna. Agastya Singh will work in Dr. Sreelaja Nair at IIT bombay for his MS thesis work.
The Plasmodium SUMO and human Ubc9 interaction studies performed by Sajeev are published in Biophysical journal @ cell press. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.03.022.
Sajeev defended his thesis on 30th May 2022. Congratulations Dr. Sajeev.
Lab@2021
Lab@2021
A review co-authored by Divya, emphasizing the role of transmembrane nucleoporins (TM-Nups) association with disease is out in Frontiers in Oncology. doi: 103389/fonc.2021.784319 (2021)
Confgratulation to Divya for being selected for the prestigious Prime Ministers Research Fellow (PMRF) scheme.
Congratulations to Sajeev for giving his thesis open seminar.
Our effort to compile a protocol related to Drosophila studies is now online. Thanks to sincere efforts from Pradyumna and Saurabh. Special acknowledgment to Jyotsna. Bio-protocol 11(04): e3924. DOI:10.21769/BioProtoc.3924
All the NSBG group members have joined the institute post-COVID-19 lockdowns.
Saurabh joined moved to Dan McKay's group at UNC-Chapel Hill for post-doctoral research.
Lab@2020
Lab@2020
The new graduate student is Ms. Divya Bindra, who will be working on nucleoporins and their association with cancer. NSBG welcomes her.
Students are joining back the lab after long research hiatus due to COVID-19.
Saurabh joined the lab of Dr. Jyoti R. Misra at University of Texas as post-doctoral fellow.
It is gratifying experience to be an active part of the establishment of Covid-19 testing facility at IISER Bhopal. After training and certification at AIIMS Bhopal, I am a Corona warrior now.
Usha successfully defended her thesis on 11th May 2020. She is officially a doctor of Philosophy. Congratulations!!!!! She just could not OVEREXPRESS her joy enough on successful thesis defence in Covid-19 style. Usha's work provides clue that continued interaction (Nup88-62) is important for stability.
Usha's work on Nup88-62 and NFkB interaction in cancer is available on pre-print server BiorXiv. (Nup88 paper)
Lab is closed at the moment due to COVID-19 lock down.
Lab is closed at the moment due to COVID-19 lock down.
Usha received the Best oral presentation award at TCR2020 convened at BHU Varanasi.
Saurabh will be joining the research group of Dr. Jyoti R Misra at University of Texas, Dallas.
The dELYS paper highlighting the work of Saurabh is published in JBC. (dElys paper)
Garima Joshi and Jyotsna Kawadkar joined the group as PhD students. NSBG welcomes both of them. Garima will work on PPL SUMOylation and cytoskeleton dynamics and Jyotsna will delineate the functions of Y-complex Nups fucntions in Drosophila development.
Lab@2019
Lab@2019
Usha gave her open seminar on 20th December 2019. Congratulations!!!!!
Lab celebrates Saurabh's success in thesis defense. SJKM defined new functions of ELYS and he was ventrally happy to establish Dorsal link of ELYS.
Lab celebrates Mansi's success in thesis defence. Mansi with a single C-terminal 'G', got things going with double G (-GG).
Saurabh successfully defended his thesis on 22nd July 2019. He is officially a doctor of Philosophy. Congratulations!!!!!
Mansi successfully defended her thesis on 15th April 2019. She is officially a doctor of Philosophy and received degree in the convocation. Congratulations!!!!!
Saurabh gave his open seminar on 2nd April 2019. Congratulations!!!!!
Surya Dev Mishra joins the group (Jan 2019). With his Biology and Chemistry inclination he will be working at the interface in collaboration with Dr. Vishal Rai.
Prajakta Biyani received BS-MS dual degree during the convocation.
Mansi's studies on Periplakin is published in MBoC. (PPL paper)
Lab@2018
Lab@2018
Mansi received support from ASCB and attended the ASCB meeting in San Diego during 8th-12th December 2018.
The PPL SUMOylation paper is accepted in MBoC and now available for reading online.
Mansi gave her open seminar on 19th November 2018. Congratulations!!!!!
Debleena and Pradyumna joined the lab as PhD students (August 2018).
Usha received FAAC funding and visited CSHL to attend the "Mechanisms and Models of Cancer" (August 2018).
Prajakta has joined lab for her 5th Year project work (2018-19).
Anu Rajeev received BS-MS dual degree during the convocation.
Lab@2017
Lab@2017
Dr. Jomon Joseph, Scientist 'F' from NCCS, Pune visited the lab in July first week and delivered a talk on "Novel role for a nucleoporin in microRNA pathway"
Saurabh received FAAC and DBT funding and attended EMBO meeting on Nuclear Structure and Dynamics in France (October 2017).
Anu Rajeev has joined lab for their 5th Year project work (2017-18).
Smita and Yogesh have graduated in the convocation held on 3rd June 2017.
Dr. Subhojit Sen, from CEBS, Mumbai, visited the lab in mid-February and delivered a talk on "Ambivalent nature of Bivalent nucleosomes: clues leading from Stem cells to Cancer"
Saurabh received FAAC and DBT funding and attended EMBO meeting on Nuclear Structure and Dynamics in France (October 2017).
Anu Rajeev has joined lab for their 5th Year project work (2017-18).
Smita and Yogesh have graduated in the convocation held on 3rd June 2017.
Dr. Subhojit Sen, from CEBS, Mumbai, visited the lab in mid-February and delivered a talk on "Ambivalent nature of Bivalent nucleosomes: clues leading from Stem cells to Cancer"
Dr. Dhananjay Huilgol from CSHL visited the lab and delivered a talk on "Developmental mechanisms of projection neurons in the forebrain"
Dr. Bhavana Muralidharan, from TIFR visited the lab and gave a talk on "Molecular mechanisms regulating cell fate specification in the developing cerebral cortex"
Lab@2016
Lab@2016
Most probably we will move into research labs in Bhauri by June-July 2016. (Construction work in progress)
Mansi received FAAC funding for attending Sumo Meeting in Shanghai, China during 21-23 October 2016.
In the second week of June 2016, we have shifted the lab to the main campus in Bhauri.
Our new lab address is Lab#107, C- Block, Academic Building#3.
Lakhan visited the lab in early October 2015.
Saurabh attended Bangalore Microscopy course in late September.
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