Lab News

Aug 2024: Nikhil was awarded the Best Poster Award at Biophysics Pashchim 2024, hosted at IISER Pune on 24th Aug 2024.

Aug 2024: Nikita and Akshit joined the group for semester projects.

May 2024: Devika successfully defended her MS thesis.

Feb 2024: Jeet has been invited to speak at the RNA meeting from 22-25 May 2024 in IIT Guwahati.

Feb 2024: We will host the 11th APNMR (Asia-Pacific NMR Conference) in conjunction with the 30th NMRS (National Magnetic Resonance Society) meeting from 26-29 June 2025. Stay tuned. Link for the meeting is here.

Feb 2024: Jeet has been invited to speak at ICMRBS 2024 from 18-23 August 2024 in Seoul, Korea.

Jan 2024: Firdousi Parvez successfully defended her PhD thesis.

Jan 2024: Krishna KJ joined the group for a 5-month project.

Dec 2023: Simran joined the group for her BSMS semester project.

Dec 2023: Devika Sangpal joined the group for her master’s thesis project.

Nov 2023: Firdousi Parvez joined Walti lab at the University of Arizona as a postdoc fellow.

Aug 2023: Ipsita Padhy joined the group as a graduate student in Chemistry.

July 2023: Zainab Amin successfully defended her comprehensive seminar in Biology and was promoted to SRF.

Apr 2023: Firdousi presented her pre-synopsis seminar.

Apr 2023: JCLAB shifted to C-125B with a bigger lab space.

Apr 2023: Abhradeep Sarkar successfully defended his semester project seminar in Chemistry.

Feb 2023: Soumya Sahoo won Best Poster Award at the 28th Annual Meeting of the National Magnetic Resonance Society of India hosted by IISER Berhampur.

Oct 2022: Zainab Amin successfully defended her departmental seminar in Chemistry.

July 2022: Prajakta Vishwasrao (MSc analytical from Mumbai) joined group as a project trainee for a period of six months.

June 2022: Meghana Goel (pursuing MSc from Thapar Institute, Patiala) joined group as a summer trainee for a period of two months.

May 2022: Guneet Singh Tarang successfully defended his BS-MS thesis and will be joining Institute of Organic Cemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC) and Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany for his PhD.

Mar 2022: Firdousi Parvez won Best Poster Award at the 27th Annual Meeting of the National Magnetic Resonance Society of India hosted by IIT Gandhinagar via zoom.

Jan 2022: Nikhil Sunny successfully defended his colloquium in Biology.

Dec 2021: Soumya Sahoo successfully defended his departmental seminar in Chemistry.

Dec 2021: Osama Azmi successfully defended his comprehensive seminar in Biology and promoted to SRF.

Aug 2021: Zainab Amin joined group as a graduate student in Chemistry.

May 2021: Guneet Singh joined group for BS-MS 5th year project in Biology.

Jan 2021: Saleem Yousf successfully defended his PhD thesis.

Dec 2020: Osama Azmi defended his colloquium in Biology.

Aug 2020: Soumya Sahoo joined group as a graduate student in Chemistry.

Aug 2020: Nikhil Sunny joined group as a graduate student in Biology.

April 2020: Harshad Paithankar successfully defended his PhD thesis.

Feb 2020: Harshad Paithankar left our group for good, and joined as a Research Associate at CBS Mumbai.

Jan 2020: M Haritha (Amrita School of Biotechnology, Kerala) joined group for her Master’s dissertation.

Jan 2020: Sayee Sawale (IBB, SPPU, Pune) joined group for her Master’s dissertation.

Jan 2020: Osama Aazmi joined group as a graduate student in Biology.

Jan 2020: Samrat Maratkar joined group as a graduate student in Chemistry.

Nov 2019: Saleem Yousf successfully defended his pre-synopsis seminar.

Oct 2019: Samrat Maratkar joined group to work on a DBT-funded project.

Oct 2019: Firdousi Parvez successfully defended her Comprehensive exam on 4th Oct 2019 and is now a Senior Research Fellow.

Aug 2019: Harshad Paithankar successfully defended his pre-synopsis seminar.

Aug 2019: Guneet Singh and Rohit Raj joined lab for their semester projects.

May 2019: Harshad Paithankar was awarded travel award from Infosys Foundation for attending a Gordon Research Conference (Computational Aspects of Biomolecular NMR) at Switzerland.

May 2019: Harshad Paithankar was awarded full travel award from CSIR for attending a Gordon Research Conference (Computational Aspects of Biomolecular NMR) at Switzerland.

Feb 2019: Saleem Yousf was awarded partial travel award from Infosys foundation for attending a conference at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Jan 2019: Shaira Ismail (from University of Kashmir, J&K) joined group for her M.Sc. thesis project.

Dec 2018: Shivaanee Kothavale (from VIT, Vellore) joined group for her B.Tech. thesis project.

Dec 2018: Alhamd Khan (from SRM University, Chennai) joined group for his B.Tech. thesis project.

Dec 2018: Srishti Gupta (from Symbiosis International University, Pune) joined group for her M.Sc. thesis project.

Sept 2018: Student office shifted from C-122 to C-124B in Main Building.

April 2018: Extra Mural Funding from Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India got approved.

Jan 2018: Dr. Santosh Kumar has been offered to join as an Assistant Professor at NIT Rourkela.

Sept 2017: Jeetender Chugh was selected as a Sakura Science Program participant to visit Osaka University, Japan fully sponsored by Japan Science and Technology Agency.

Sept 2017: Ms. Firdousi Parvez joined group as a Graduate Student.

Aug 2017: Ms. Firdousi Parvez joined group as a Rotation Student for 15 days.

Aug 2017: Mr. Nishesh Kumar Gupta joined group as a Graduate Student.

Jul 2016: Dr. Santosh Kumar joined group as a DST N-SERB Post Doctoral Fellow.

Jul 2016: Ms. Sarita Tripathi joined group as a DST Project Fellow.

Jan 2016: Extra Mural Funding from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India got approved.

Dec 2016: Mr. Saleem Yousf successfully defended his comprehensive exam on 30th Dec 2016 and is now a Senior Research Fellow.

Dec 2015: Mr. Harshad Paithankar successfully defended his comprehensive exam on 23rd Dec 2015 and is now a Senior Research Fellow.

July 2015: Chemical-Biology PhD student Mr. Parth Raval joined lab for rotation for 15 days starting 3rd August 2015.

July 2015: Ms. Himani Rawat successfully defended her comprehensive exam on 30th July 2015.

July 2015: Chemistry Int-PhD student Ms. Bandana Kumari joined lab for rotation for a month starting 11th July 2015.

Jan 2015: Mr. Saleem Yousuf joined group as a Graduate student.

May 2014: Ms. Parvathy L joined group as a summer student.

Jan 2014: Mr. Harshad Paithankar joined group as a Graduate student.

Aug/Sep 2013: Wet-lab work started on Bench 8, Lab 2, PEB 3 (now G1 block).

Aug 2013: Ms. Himani Rawat joined group as a Graduate student.

Mar 2013: Dr. Chugh joined as Assistant Professor in Department of Chemistry at IISER Pune and started Bio-NMR research group.

Jan 2013: Our Nature Article on the discovery and characterization of fast RNA switches is ranked in Top 10 by Faculty of 1000 in all fields and  in Top 2 in Structural Biology field.

Oct 2012: Our Nature Article on the discovery and characterization of fast RNA switches featured as News of the Week in Chemical and Engineering News magazine.