Sourav Dutta - the Nucleus

Project intern, Feb 2024 - Present

My project focusses on the 'Functional Regulation of Biomolecular Condensates in the Context of Drosophila Germline Development' where I am investigating the mechanism of membrane association of Long Oskar and the molecular underpinnings of two-dimensional phase separation in Drosophila germline development. 

Parakbritta Hazra Dutta - the Droplet Detective 

Post-MSc project intern, May, 2024 - Present

I explore the mechanistic basis of subcellular compartmentalization of biomolecular reactions by investigating the functional and organizational dynamics of membrane-assisted condensates and RNP granules in developing Drosophila oocytes. 

I also develop novel expansion-based imaging methodologies to visualize RNP granules at nanoscale resolution, beyond the diffraction limit of conventional confocal microscope.

Denesh - the Lipid collector

PhD student, July, 2024 - Present

I study the mechanistic principles behind the formation of organelle contact sites and their role in lipid transfer between drug resistant Leishmania donovani and host lipid droplets.

Jeet Mukhopadhyay - the FISHerman

PhD student, January, 2025 - Present

I study translation regulation in membraneless biomolecular condensates in the context of germline development and axis specification of Drosophila embryos.

Sayan Roy - the Cloneman

Project intern, February, 2025 - Present

I study the molecular mechanism of endomembrane targeting of proteins coupled with membane-assisted phase separation. 

Kajal Mondal - 

PhD student, July, 2025 - Present

I study neuronal RNA binding protein condensates and their role in neuroprotection. 

Sabina Khatun - 

PhD student, July, 2025 - Present

I investigate the emerging role of RNA-RNA interactions in condensate formation and RNA localization. 

Rachayita Das - 

PhD student, July, 2025 - Present

I study the crosstalk of RNP granule condensates and the cellular microtubule cytoskeleton. 

Subarna Dutta - 

DST-WISE Postdoctoral fellow, February, 2025 - present

I am investigating the role of an RNA binding protein in the Drosophila germline and its interaction with the microtubule cytoskeleton.

Kalpa Chakraborty - 

MSc intern, May, 2025 - Present

I develop in vitro assays to investugate the molecular basis of translation regulation in biomolecular condensates. 

Subarna Moshan - 

MTech intern, May, 2025 - Present

I study the effect of cytoplasmic crowding on RNP granule formation and dynamics using the vitellogenic Drosophila oocyte as a model.

Syamantak Dey - the Lipid laureate

Project intern, July, 2025 - Present

My work at the Laboratory of Biological Assemblies focuses on exploring how several proteins can form phase-separated condensates using lipid droplets as a substrate and how this phenomenon can be dynamically altered under different conditions of cell stress and starvation.

Aniket Pan

May, 2025 - July 2025 ...Bachelor's internship

I was actively involved in cloning constructs for targetting a specific protein to the surface of Lipid droplets.

Debojit Saha

January, 2025 - April 2025...Master's internship

I was working on establishing an assay platform to investigate translation regulation in RNP granules.

Manacy Ramanan

January, 2025 - April 2025...Master's internship

I was investigating the role of an RNA binding protein in localization and translation of oskar mRNA.

Gourav Biswas

March, 2024 - December 2024

I was working on construction of tools to image translation in the fly oocytes.

Koushiki Basak

June, 2025 - July 2025...Master's internship

I was working on optimizing HCR-based in situ hybridization for RNA visualization in the fly germline.

Harshita Singh

January, 2025 - May 2025...Bachelor's internship

I was working on nanoscale visualization of RNP Granules beyond the Resolution Limit

Khushi Singh

May, 2025 - June, 2025...Bachelor's internship

I was working on optimizing single moelcule FISH techniques for RNA visualization in the fly germline.

Swomdeb Mondal

September 2024 - December 2024

I was working on generating transgenes for microinjection to investigate RNA-RNA interactions in fly germline.

Minakshi Bhattacharya

January, 2024 - June 2024...Master's internship

I was working on the effect of tissue-specific knockdown of translation regulators on oskar mRNA localization and translation in vivo 

Niladri Narayan Mishra

January, 2024 - June 2024...Master's internship

I was working on the effect of tissue-specific knockdown of Protein kinase N on oskar mRNA localization and translation in vivo 

Antoine Giraud

July, 2025...EMBO Exchange fellow

I was working on expansion microscopy protocol developed by the Bose lab to apply it to adult Drosophila brains of different ages