Events

Feb 2025- Received the ANRF travel grant to attend Gordon Research conference 'Physical science of cancer', at Pomano, California, USA.

Feb 2025-  Flash talk and poster presentation at Gordon Research conference 'Physical science of cancer',  at Pomano, California, USA.

Jan 2025- Poster presentation at Gordon Research conference and seminar 'Stochastic physics in biology',  at Ventura, California, USA.

Nov-Dec 2024- Visited TIFR Hyderabad for a collaboration with Prof. Saroj Nandi

25/11/24- My first Annual Work Presentation went well.

Aug 2024 to Oct 2024- Teaching assistant at NPTEL for the course 'Research Methodology'

July 2024- Invited instructor for a one-day workshop at the Simons-NCBS Monsoon school on the Physics of life

May 2024- Mentored an UG intern- Ananthakrishna SV from IISER Pune

Feb 2024- Part of the Core team of the Bioengineering department open day committee. Designed posters and social media posts to publicize bioengineering department in the IISc 2024 open day. 

Jan 2024 to April 2024- Python for bioinformatics- Practical Python sessions at Ramaiah University

Jan 2024- April 2024- Cell mechanics (IISc- Dr. Medhavi Vishwakarma)- teaching assistant

Jan 2024- Received the Best speaker award at the BioEngineering Annual Research Symposium

Jan 2024- Received travel grant from IACR (Indian Association of Cancer Research) to attend the 2024 IACR annual meeting. Poster presentation at IACR 2024. 

Dec 2023- Started my role as a Science writing intern at India Bioscience

Nov 2023- Passed my PhD comprehensive examination

Nov 2023- Poster presentation at the conference -"Stochasticity and plasticity in living Systems, 2023"

July 2023- May 2024- Mentoring a master's thesis student- Tanishq

July 2023- Poster presentation at he EMBO workshop- Physics of Living systems: From physical principles to biological function”

May 2023- Mentored an undergrad student- Divija

May 2023- Awarded the EMBO travel grant to attend the EMBO workshop- Physics of Living systems: From physical principles to biological function” at Dresden, Germany

April 2023 - Published a review article 'Role of heterogeneity in dictating tumorigenesis in epithelial tissues' in the Journal of 'Computational and Systems Oncology'.

March 2023 - First lab retreat to Chikmagalur :)

March 2023 - Poster presentation, Indian Biophysical Society meeting.

Feb 23, 2023 - The much-awaited microscope of our lab is here!!

Feb 2023 - Poster presentation, Physics of cells and tissues.

Jan 2023 to May 2023 - TA for NPTEL course 'Introduction to research', taken by over 300 students from all over India.

Jan 2023 - Poster presentation, BSSE Annual research symposium.

December 2022 - Completed my first PMRF midterm review with 'Very good' comment.

November 1 to November 5, 2022 - Participant, EMBO India lecture course, Hyderabad.

October 2022 - Awarded the prestigious PMRF fellowship.

September 2022 - Submitted my review article - 'Role of heterogeneity in dictating tumorigenesis in epithelial tissues'.

July to October 2022 - Science writing intern, Office of communication, IISc.

June 2022 - Excited to have our collaborator Darshan Shah and his guide Prof. KV Venkatesh from IIT Bombay on campus. Had an informative and fruitful discussion on my wound healing project with them.

June 2022 - Excited to have our collaborator Dr. Jitesh Jhawar and Dr. Jacob at IISc, had very interesting discussions about my project with them!

May-June 2022 - Went to the CCD lab at TIFR Hyderabad to learn experimental techniques.

May 2022 - Completed coursework requirements of my PhD program with a CGPA of 9.2. Learned wet lab techniques such as cell culture, traction force microscopy and data analysis techniques such as automated cell segmentaion, classification and tracking to understand spatio temporal dynamics in epithelia. 

August 2021 - Joined the PhD program at BSSE, IISc, under Dr. Medhavi Vishwakarma as the first PhD student of the lab.