News
News
2025
July
Convocation Day! The third batch of BSMS students graduated from the lab. Many congratulations to Roshin, Ann Mary, Bhavya and Simna! Huge applause to Ann Mary for securing the 'Silver Medal' in the best academic performance category.
May
First PREPRINT and REVIEW paper from the lab published online! Huge congratulations to all the authors!!
February
Amrita Bhattacharya (PhD Scholar) was selected for a Flash talk and received a Travel award at the Molecular Motors, Transports and Tracks 2025 meeting held at IIT Jodhpur.
Hrithik Kumar (PhD Scholar) and Arun P V (PhD Scholar) attended the 43rd Mahabaleshwar Seminar 2025 on Molecules, Membranes and Organelles organised by the TIFR Mumbai at Alibaug. Hrithik Kumar (PhD scholar) presented a poster highlighting his recent research work.
Hrithik Kumar (PhD Scholar) was awarded the Best Poster Prize at the 5th edition of Frontiers Symposium in Biology (FS-BIO) 2025, organized by the School of Biology, IISER TVM.
January
Mullai V R (PhD Scholar) was selected to participate in the Hands-on Workshop on basic Bio-methodologies of Laboratory Mice and Rat, held in NCBS, Bengaluru from January 27-31, 2025
Sandhya Ganesan delivered a talk on "Exocytosis driven by lysosomal-adapted pathogens shapes infection process" at the 6th Autophagy India Network Meeting 2025 hosted by CCMB Hyderabad from 20-22nd January. Hrithik Kumar (PhD Scholar) presented a poster highlighting his recent research work.
2024
December
Nisha Singh (iPhD Scholar) and Bhavya Lakshmi (BS-MS student) selected for the Global Immunocourse 2024, organized by the Ashoka University from 13th-23rd December 2024.
October
Sandhya Ganesan delivered a talk on "Innate and cell-autonomous immune response against vacuolar pathogens: Lessons learnt from Coxiella burnetii" at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Indian Immunological Society - IMMUNOCON 2024 hosted by IISc Bangalore from 17th to 20th October. Mullai V R (PhD Scholar) presented a poster highlighting her recent research work.
September
Sandhya Ganesan attended the 14th Bangalore Microscopy Course organized at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, from 22nd - 29th Sept 2024.
July
Convocation Day! The second batch of BSMS and MSc students graduated from the lab. Many congratulations to Siva, Sayanthana, Ruth, Chandhana and Anushka! Huge applause to Chandhana for securing the 'Gold Medal' in the best academic performance category.
May
Roshin Nazeer (Intern) was awarded a ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship for a 2-month summer internship at the Institute of Medical Microbiology (IMM) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
P V Arun (PhD Scholar) was selected for the Microscopy and Image Analysis Training Course at IISER Pune.
February
Sandhya Ganesan delivered a talk on "Cellular Avengers: Lessons we learn from Host defences against intracellular bacterial pathogens" at the 3rd Foundation week of Chemical Society of IISER TVM.
Mullai V R (PhD Scholar) attended the Global Immunology Summit (GIS2024), organized by the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THISTI), New Delhi
Hrithik Kumar (PhD Scholar) and Mullai V R (PhD Scholar) presented a poster at the 4th edition of Frontiers Symposium in Biology (FS-BIO) 2024, organized by the School of Biology, IISER TVM.
January
Hrithik Kumar (PhD Scholar) presented a poster at the 46th All India Cell Biology Conference (AICBC) 2024, organized by ACTREC-Tata Memorial Hospital, Navi Mumbai.
2023
December
BIG NEWS!!! Sandhya Lab received the DBT Wellcome Trust Intermediate Grant. Woohoo!
October
Sandhya Ganesan delivered a talk on "SNAREs in infection, immunity and organelle dysfunction" at the Organelle Biology & Membrane Trafficking (OBMT) Conference 2023 hosted by NBRC Manesar. Amrita Bhattacharya (PhD Scholar) presented a poster highlighting her recent research work.
September
Sandhya Ganesan and Mullai V R (PhD Scholar) attended the 'Asia Pacific Rickettsia Conference (APRC3)' in Chennai, India.
Sandhya Ganesan delivered an enlightening talk on Host-Pathogen Interaction, sharing the recent work from the lab at Rhetor 4.0, the annual symposium organized by Proteus, IISER-TVM.
Sandhya Lab group won the First Prize in the synthetic-biology based "Pookalam" competition organized by iGEM, IISER-TVM.
August
Sandhya Ganesan attended the 'Annual Ignite Meet 2023' organized by the Ignite Life Science Foundation at NCBS, Bangalore.
Congratulations to Chandhana, Anushka and Keerthana for successfully qualifying CSIR-UGC NET exam.
Hrithik Kumar joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome back, Hrithik!
BSMS (Aan Ruth & Sayanthana Benny) and MSc (Chandhana Prakash & Anushka Mitra) students joined our group for a Master's thesis!
July
Hrithik Kumar (MSc Student) visited Dr. Lipi Thukral lab at CSIR-IGIB, Delhi.
Sandhya Ganesan delivered an invited lecture on 'Immune Evasion Mechansims' at Bhavan's Vivekananda College, Hyderabad.
Convocation Day! First batch of BSMS and MSc students graduated from the lab. Many congratulations to Hrithik Kumar, Tejas Pawar and Aslam AP! Huge applause to Tejas for securing the 'Silver Medal' in the best academic performance category.
Siva Subramanian (Intern) was selected for MS thesis at Max Planck Institute of Plant Breeding and Research, Germany.
June
Amrita Bhattarcharya attended Hands-on-Workshop on Advanced Imaging Applications organized by RGCB, Trivandrum.
April
Sandhya Lab received ACORN-AMR grant from the Ignite Life Science Foundation!
February
Sandhya Ganesan delivered a talk at the "Autophagy India Network (AIN)" meeting at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh.
1 year anniversary of Host-Pathogen Interaction Lab!
Keerthana B. joined our group as Laboratory Research Assistant. Welcome Keerthana!
January
Sandhya Ganesan attended NCBS Annual Talks at NCBS, Bangalore.
Amrita Bhattacharya and P V Arun Prasanth joined our lab as PhD students. Welcome Amrita and Arun!
2022
December
BIG NEWS!! First research grant awarded to our group by DST-SERB.
October
Mullai V R (PhD Scholar) attended a EMBO-funded lecture series at the Center for Predictive Human Model System, Hyderabad.
June
Sandhya Ganesan attended the panel discussion in the 5th National Post-doc symposium held at IISER-TVM.
August
Aslam AP joined the lab for Master's thesis. Welcome Aslam!
May
Mullai V R joined as the first PhD student of the lab. Welcome Mullai!
January
Hrithik Kumar and Tejas Pawar joined the lab for Master's thesis. Welcome Hrithik and Tejas!
Host-Pathogen Interaction Lab opened in School of Biology, IISER-TVM!