Principal Investigator

Girish Ratnaparkhi                girish@iiserpune.ac.in                      The Making of the Fly    

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7615-3140

Graduate (PhD/iPhD) Students                                                                   

Lovleen Garg                                  lovleen.garg@students.iiserpune.ac.in                        Lipid signaling in ALS8

Namrata Kulkarni                        kulkarni.namrata@students.iiserpune.ac.in             Age-dependent inflammation in ALS8

Sanhita Sarkar                               sarkar.sanhita@students.iiserpune.ac.in                   Motor circuits in ALS8

Amrita Roy                                      amrita.roy@students.iiserpune.ac.in                           Serine Hydrolases in early Drosophila development 

Alex Varghese                               alexgeorge.varghese@students.iiserpune.ac.in        ER-Mitochondrial contact sites in ALS8

Kanika kanika.20243130@students.iiserpune.ac.in          Smaug, Oskar, Caspar epistasis

Master of Science Students (2025-2026)

Karthik H                                          karthik.h@students.iiserpune.ac.in                        Folding and mis-folding in ALS8

Adheena Elsa Roy                       adheena.elsa_roy@students.iiserpune.ac.in       Mechanisms of PGC migration

Achyusman Samanta                achyusman.samanta@students.iiserpune.ac.in       Spatiotemporal gene expression in leg development

(co-supervised by Johanthan Enriquez,  CNRS, Lyon)

Summer Students (2025)

Ananya Narayanan,  Ananya Parvati,  Bhavini Raina,  Varada Pande (MIT, Pune)

BSMS (Lab/Theory) Students (Winter 2025)

Ananya Narayanan,  Ananya Parvati,  Bhavini Raina,  Srishti Kar,  Anusa Maiti, Aadya Aswin, SV Ananthakrishna

Int. PhD. (Rotation) Students

Debasmitha Das

Guest Faculty/ Collaborator

Girish Deshpande                    gdeshpande@iiserpune.ac.in