Laboratory of Molecular Virology 

NEWS and Activities

• Aniruddha and Dhiraj join the lab. Welcome!  

• August 2024: Congratulations to Ajit, Rishikesh, Pavitra and co-inventors on patent filing.

• June 2024: Congratulations to Ajit on being conferred with the Young Researcher Award 2024, given by LTMT

• April 2024: Meet ciTRAN, the circular RNA hijacked by HIV-1: read the story covered by DBT/WT India Alliance on research in our lab

• Jan 2024: U.R. Aryadevi joins the lab for a PhD. Welcome back, Arya!  

• Jan 2024: Congratulations to Vipin for acing the thesis defense and contributing significantly to the lab. 

• Dec 2023: Congratulations to Ajit for the recognition by the EMBO. He was selected among 10 scientists to join the EMBO Global Investigator Network 

• Oct 2023: Aditi wins a travel grant from the SERB

• The circRNA story is now out in Science Advances

• Magnum opus by Pavitra is out in mBio- reporting a new function of SERINC5 in myeloid cells

• November 2022: The first preprint on our pioneering work on circRNAs in HIV-1 infection is out now- ciTRAN is the first functionally characterized circRNA in HIV-1 infection

• Our lab reagents can be obtained through Addgene

• July 2022: Congratulations to Ajit and Vipin for filing the PCT 

• July 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Tarun Mishra for successfully completing his Ph.D. and securing a post-doc position at the University of Iowa

• July 2022: Congratulations to the valedictorian Ms. Arya Devi for securing the President's medal for excellent performance across all disciplines in the BS-MS integrated program of IISERB

• March 2022: Congratulations to Tarun and coauthors for their paper on CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing improvement- now out in Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids

• July 2021: Congratulations to Ajit and Vipin for filing the Indian patent 

• June 2021: It takes two to tango: N protein like the spike protein plays a role in the infectivity of coronavirus: read the story covered by DBT/WT India Alliance on our COVID-19 research

• April 2021: Congratulations to Tarun for the MP Young scientist award for his work on SARS CoV-2

• April 2021: Congratulations to Tarun, Sreepadmanabh, and coauthors for a publication describing a new role for SARS CoV-2 nucleocapsid  

• A post-doc position is available! 

• April 2021: Congratulations to Pavitra and coauthors for a publication describing antiretroviral SERINC2 

• Jan 2021: Katyayani and Rishikesh joined the lab as PhD students. Welcome!

• A-Team volunteers for COVID testing at IISER-B!

• August 2020: Sree and Amit joins the lab for Masters thesis

• Jan 2020: Suneel joined the lab as lab manager. Welcome!

• August 2019: Aditi and Pratibha joined the lab as  PhD students. Welcome!

• July 2019: Tamal and Garima joined the lab for MS thesis. Welcome!

• January 2019: Aman joined the lab for as a PhD student. Welcome!

• November 2018: Ajit has been awarded the prestigious Wellcome Trust/DBT Intermediate Fellowship

• June 2018: Pallavi Gadgil joined the lab for MS thesis. Welcome!

• January 2018: Pavitra and Tarun joined the lab as Ph.D. students. Welcome!

• December 2017: The Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award-2017 was conferred to Ajit. 

• August 2017: Ajit has been awarded Ramanujan Fellowship by DST SERB, India.

• August 2017: Vipin joins the journey as a first Ph.D. student. Welcome!

• May 2017:  The journey begins...got the desk, one eppendorf stand, and an old freezer.....no lab yet