Lab News

January 2024: Our BHoPAL (Baylis Hillman orchestrated Protein Aminothiol Labelling) technology is published in Nature Communications. This work has been covered by more than 26 media outlets including The Times of India, The Economic Times and Dainik Bhaskar. 

January 2024: Bhaskar joins the lab as a project JRF student. 

December 2023: One project JRF position available. Motivated candidates interested in Chemical Biology and Organic Chemistry are encouraged to apply (link).

November 2023: Sangeeta got SERB International Travel Support to present a talk on her work on protein bioconjugation at the "13th International Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry (ISBOC-13) Link" to be held at Singapore on 18-20 December, 2023. Congratulations Sangeeta!

October 2023: Dimpy presents the lab's work on N-terminal cysteine bioconjugation in Women in Science conference (WiSC@IITK-2023) at IIT Kanpur Link.   

July 2023: Vishnu's INSPIRE proposal for PhD fellowship on the chemical biology of bacterial c-di-GMP signaling is selected for funding. Congratulations Vishnu!

April 2023: Dimpy presents the lab's work on Cys detection probe development and Cys-bioconjugation in the Redox Chemical Biology of Health and Disease conference at IISER Pune.

March 2023: Chhaya is awarded the Best Poster Award in the in-house yearly departmental meeting, Interactions 2023. She presented her work on developing covalent inhibitors of c-di-GMP synthases. Congratulations Chhaya!

September 2022: Pooja joins the lab as a project JRF.

August 2022: BS-MS students Anmol, Deepa and Gourav join the lab for their thesis work.

July 28-31, 2022: Dimpy presents an invited talk at ‘FORCE-IICS’ conference held in Agra. Talk title: Sensitive free cysteine detection and rapid protein bioconjugation via facile Michael addition-elimination reactions.

July 7-9, 2022: Dimpy presents an invited "CRSI-ACS Women in Chemical Science Lecture” at 29th CRSI-NSC and CRSI-ACS Symposium held at IISER Mohali. Talk title: Cascaded 1,2 aminothiol-triggered Michael addition-elimination reactions for nanomolar cysteine detection and rapid protein bioconjugation. 

July 2022: Our work on the development of sensitive MADELCY TOF probes for detecting free Cys, ACY-1, and imaging cellular Cys is published in Analyst.

April 13, 2022: Dimpy is awarded the prestigious SERB POWER grant.

November 25-28, 2021: Dimpy presents an invited talk at XXI NOST-Organic Chemistry conference held in Chennai. Talk title: Cascaded 1,2-aminothiol-triggered reactions of Michael acceptors.

August 5-6, 2021: Dimpy presents an invited talk at RSC-IISERB Desktop Symposium. Talk title: Tweaking maleimides for improved bioconjugation.

January 1, 2021: PhD student Suman joins the group.

December 11, 2020: Dimpy is invited to serve as a member of the international advisory board of the Eur. J. Org. Chem.

October 31-November 1, 2020: Sangeeta presents a talk on her PhD research at the XVI J-NOST 2020 conference, entitled: "In-situ generated ylides for aldehyde-mediated bioconjugation".

August 28, 2020: Dimpy presents an invited talk in a webinar session on “Women in Organic Chemistry (WOC 2020)” held at the Ravenshaw University. Talk title: Exocyclic olefinic maleimides as versatile scaffolds for bioconjugation.

November 2019: Our work on the development of a technically straightforward high-yielding aldehyde-mediated bioconjugation method is published in ChemComm.

August 2019: PhD student Veena and 5th yr BS-MS project students, Anisha, Nanditha and Shahabas join the group.

March 2019: Dimpy has been awarded Early Career Research Award (ECRA) by SERB.

February 25-28, 2019: Dimpy presents an invited talk at the IIT Bombay Diamond Jubilee Chemistry Symposium. Talk title: Exocyclic olefinic maleimides as versatile scaffolds for bioconjugation. 

January 2019: Chemistry Ph.D. students, Chhaya and Sangeeta, join the group.

December 22-24, 2018: Dimpy presents an invited talk at the National Bioorganic Chemistry Conference held at the NISER Bhubaneswar. Talk title: Exocyclic olefinic maleimides — From stable thiol bioconjugation to N-terminal protein modification.

October 3, 2018: Dimpy presents an invited talk at the Departmental Seminar Series at the Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Kolkata. Talk title: Maleimides—Versatile scaffolds for chemical biology. 

August 2018: Chemistry Ph.D. students, Dastgir and Mudassir, and 5th yr BS-MS project student, Govind join the group.

August 19-22, 2018: Dimpy presents an invited talk at the decennial year meeting of the "Chemical Frontiers 2018" meeting organized by IIT Bombay in Goa. Talk title: Exocyclic olefinic maleimides: From stable thiol bioconjugation to N-terminal protein modification.

July 13-15, 2018: Dimpy presents an invited talk at the 23rd CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry held at IISER Bhopal. Talk title: Efficacious approaches for stable thiol bioconjugation. 

May-July 2018: BS-MS students, Tarun Jaiswal and Shubham Patil perform summer projects in the lab.

April 2018: Sangeeta joins the lab as a project JRF student.

January 2018: Dimpy moves to the Department of Chemistry at IISER Bhopal from Savitribai Phule Pune University.

September 4-7, 2017: Dimpy presents an invited talk at the 7th Chemical Protein Synthesis Conference held at Haifa, Israel. Talk title: Endowing stability to thio-maleimide protein bioconjugates. 

July 29, 2017: Dimpy presents an invited outreach lecture at the Hislop College, Nagpur organized by RSC West India section, July 29th 2017. Talk title: Cancer: Chemistry to the Rescue.