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Congratulations Animesh others authors- paper accepted in Science Advances. Collaboration led by Ujjaini and Avinash Labs. (June 2023)

New members- short term trainees (2022-23)

Agrata Singh (Amity University), Shaurya Rana (Shiv Nadar Univ) and Ishita Chaddha (Hansraj College) has joined as short-term trainees.

Shreya Bhattacharya from ACBR has joined the lab for 6 months training (January 2023).

Ayushi Chaudhari from Banasthali University has joined the lab for 1 year training (July 2022)

Congratulations Amit Garg et al.: paper accepted in ACS Pharmacology and Translational Science. This is the first paper where we have used mouse model apart from C. elegans.

Congratulations Tripti Nair for submitting her PhD thesis. 31th December, 2021

Congratulations Tripti Nair. Paper accepted in Aging Cell. 8th December 2021

Congratulations Gautam Chandra Sarkar for submitting his PhD thesis. 24th December, 2021

There are several new members who have joined for short and long term training (2022).

Govind Prakash, Int MSc student from IISER Bhopal will be in the lab for one year.

Shivay Parihar, M.B.B.S student from Dr. S.N. Medical College, Jodhpur will be in the lab for 2 months.

V H N S M R M Kasi Viswanadh Kasi Viswanad, IaSc fellow will be in the lab for 2 months.

We are happy to have Tuba Anjum Usmani from SLS, Jawaharlal Nehru University as the new PhD student! Welcome Tuba! August 19, 2021.

We are happy to have Jasleen Kaur from Bose Institute Kolkata as the new PhD student! Welcome Jasleen! August 3, 2021

Congratulations Dr. Sonia Verma for starting your lab at CSIR-CDRI Lucknow!!! The lab is immensely proud of you. Wish you all the best. June 23, 2021.

Congratulations to Trishna Pani and Dr. Ujjaini DasGupta. Paper provisionally accepted in Cell Death and Disease!!! January 11, 2021.

Congratulations to Animesh Kar, Drs. Ujjaini DasGupta and Avinash Bajaj. Paper accepted in Angewandte Chemie!!! Nov 25, 2020. Great collaborative effort.

Congratulations to Anita Goyala. Paper accepted in PLoS One, Oct 27, 2020.

We are happy to have Simran Motwani from Delhi University South Campus (Biochemistry) as the new PhD student! Welcome Simran! Oct 08, 2020.

Congratulations to Manish Chamoli, Anita Goyala, Shamsh Syed Tabrez and others. Paper accepted in Nature Communications, Aug 03, 2020.

Congratulations to Gautam Sarkar for winning poster award at the XLIII All India Cell Biology Conference 2019 (IISER Mohali, December 2019 ).

Congratulations to Tripti Nair for winning poster award at the Lipid Meet 2019 (Amity University Haryana, 12-13 th December 2019 ).

Congratulations to Dr. Anita Goyala for successfully defending her PhD thesis (Dec 17, 2019)

PNAS paper covered by Hindu

August 17, 2019

NII unravels how diet restriction delays ageing, increases lifespanWorms exposed to moderate stress early in life are able to handle chronic stress that comes with ageing

PNAS paper covered by Telegraph-india

August 13, 2019

Machinery of ‘eat less’ mantraWhy it works: key component found

Congrats to Dr. Latika Matai, Gautam Sarkar and team- paper accepted in PNAS! Fantastic long-term collaboration with Kausik Chakraborty, CSIR-IGIB (18 July, 2019).

Congrats to Dr. Sonia Verma for successfully defending her PhD thesis (July 8, 2019).

Podcast: Increasing the longevity of C. elegansArnab Mukhopadhyay explains how the longevity of C. elegans was increased 40-60% by using a gene-diet pairing in a mutant. The lifespan increased even when there was no restriction on the quantity …

Mutant worms live 60% longer on specific dietSo far, only four gene-diet pairs that modulate longevity have been discovered using these worms.

PLOS Genetics paper covered by Hindu

September 16, 2018

PLOS Genetics paper covered by Indiabioscience

September 10, 2018

3rd Aug 2018: Congrats to Sonia and coauthors, paper accepted in PLOS Genetics!!

28th Feb 2018: Congrats to Anita for securing First Prize in the Science Day Poster presentation.

27th Feb 2018: Many congrats to Dr. Syed Shamsh Tabrez for successfully defending his PhD thesis.

26th Feb 2018: Congrats Anita! Wormart selected for a prize in the C. elegans meeting.

23-26th Feb 2018: The Second Indian C. elegans Meeting 2018.

18th May 2017: Congrats to Tabrez and coauthors, paper accepted in Nature Communications!!

30th Dec 2016: Congratulations to latika and Vivek on their wedding.

23rd Dec 2016: Many congrats to Dr. Latika Matai for successfully defending her PhD thesis.

22nd Nov 2016: Congratulations to Vaibhav and Komal on their wedding.

21st Nov 2016: Many congrats to Dr. Anupama Singh for successfully defending her PhD thesis.

8th Sep 2016: Congrats to Sonia for being offered a Scientist position in AIIMS, New Delhi.

01 Jun 2016: Congrats to Shuvadeep, Raj, Latika and members of Mukhopadhyay, Sengupta and Chakraborty labs!! Paper accepted in Cell Reports.

07 Mar 2016: Congrats to Anupama, Neeraj, Latika, Amit and Vaibhav!!! Paper accepted in Aging Cell.