Laboratory of Molecular Virology
NEWS and Activities
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 joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
May 2017: The journey begins...got the desk, one eppendorf stand, and an old freezer.....no lab yet