Our lab is interested in the cellular and molecular aspects of development in plants. We study the interaction of plants with the environmental factors that regulate growth and development both above and below the ground.

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• 13/05/2024- Dr. Sourav Datta has been recieved Tata Innovation Fellowoship for the year 2023-2024 from the Department of Biotechnology

• 16/01/2024- Arpan received the best oral presentation award and Rahul received the best poster presentation award  at the EMBO-ISPP Satellite meeting, IISER Bhopal

• 15/01/2024-16/01/2024- IISER Bhopal organized the EMBO-ISPP satellite meeting 

• 12/01/2024- Rahul, Shubhi, and Venkateswara received the best poster presentation award at the EMBO-ISPP conference at NISER Bhubaneshwar

• 10/01/2024- Dr. Sourav Datta elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru (FASc), India

• 09/01/2024-12/01/2024- IISER Bhopal and NISER Bhubaneshwar jointly organized the EMBO International Symposium on Plant Photobiology (ISPP) conference at NISER Bhubaneshwar (View here)

• 22/12/2023- Kavuri Venkateswara Rao gave his graduate seminar I examination

• 15/12/2023- A collaborative work with Dr. Nagarjun Vijay on the genomic and transcriptomic analyses of night flowering Jasmine Parijat is published in Physiologia Plantarum ( View here)

• 27/10/2023- Dr. Sourav Datta elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), India

• 20/07/2023- Dr. Shyam Kumar Masakapalli visited IISER Bhopal and PCDB lab

• 05/06/2023-09/06/2023- Rahul attended the 33rd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2023) held in Chiba, Japan. He also received the best oral presentation award.

• 31/05/2023-02/06/2023- Dr. Sourav Datta attended and delivered a talk at the Microproteins 2023 conference held at University of Copenhagen, Denmark

• 09/05/2023- Deeksha successfully defended her Ph.D. Viva Voce

• 01/05/2023- Rahul presented his Ph.D. open seminar

• 13/04/2023- Rahul received DBT-CTEP Travel grant to attend the 33rd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2023) to be held in June 5-9, 2023 in Chiba, Japan 

• 24/03/23- A review on photoprotective role of plant secondary metabolites to enhance tolerance to high light is published in Environmental and Experimental Botany ( View here)

• 12/03/2023- A review on light and ABA signaling pathways to combat drought stress in plants is published in Plant Cell Reports ( View here)

• 09/03/2023- Dr. Kalyan Mahapatra joins PCDB as an Institute Post-doctoral fellow 

• 08/03/2023- Deeksha's work on two microproteins regulating ABA mediated seedling developmental arrest is published in New phytologist (View here)