Events

MARCH 2022

  • Deep Prakash's work (EMBO J, 2021) is selected for TNQ best thesis award at national level. Deep and 7 others were selected from a very talented pool of 640 applicants in India. Congratulations, Deep. We are so proud of you.

OCT 2021

  • Divakar's collaborative paper with Ameen and Abhijith is out in mBio. Congratulations!!!

JUNE 2021

  • Deep's paper is out in the EMBO Journal. Congratulations!!!

MARCH 2021

  • Sandhu's paper on the permeability of C. elegans skin is out in GENETICS. The cover of the March 2021 issue of GENETICS is graced by wild type and dumpy worms, art inspired by Sandhu's work. Congratulations!!!

SEPTEMBER 2020

  • Thesis colloquium by Deep Prakash. Congratulations!!!

  • Sandhu's paper is accepted in Bio-Protocols. Congratulations!!!

AUGUST 2020

  • Thesis colloquium by Anjali Sandhu. Congratulations!!!

  • Singh lab and Varma lab's collaborative study is accepted in Soft matter. Congratulations!!!

MAY 2020

  • Madhu recieves her PhD degree. Dr. Madhu Dasgupta, Congratulations!!!

  • Madhu's paper is accepted in Infec Immun. yay!!! Immuno metabolism is an essential component of C. elegans response to infection. Madhu's study demonstrates that neutral lipid utilization is a crucial component of C. elegans immune response.

APRIL 2020

  • Thesis colloquium by Anjali Gupta. Congratulations!!!

  • Dr. Anubhuti Dixit's paper is accepted in Aging Cell. yay!!! Discovery of STR-2 GPCR as the regulator of life span and metabolism in C. elegans.

  • Divakar Badal's first author paper is accepted in J of Medical Microbiology. He established an ex vivo method for study of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm on endotracheal tube, a model for ventilator associated pneumonia.

MARCH 2020

JANUARY 2020

  • Harshitha's paper is accepted in Physical Review E. Great collaborative effort between Varma lab and Singh lab. Congratulations!!!

NOVEMBER 2019

  • Divakar Badal receives Award for best idea on Biomedical waste management at REimagiNe waste Hackathon 2019 organized by Waste Impact Trust, Bengaluru

JULY 2019

  • Our first visit to International Pseudomonas Conference

JUNE 2019

  • International C. elegans Conference on UC, Los Angeles Campus. We had 4 days of immersion in worm community

  • Anjali Gupta received travel award from the Genetics Society if America

MARCH 2019

  • Ameen's first author paper is accepted in iScience. Congratulations!!!

DECEMBER 2018

  • Anjali Sandhu receives the most commendable platform presentation prize at the Indian Society of Developmental Biology Meeting INSDB 2018. This is for her work on stress responses in C. elegans skin. Kudos!!!

NOVEMBER 2018

  • Divakar, Kripa, and Chitranjali won the second best poster award on 'Open Science and Open Access' as a part of International Open-Access Week 2018, organized by DST- center for policy research, IISc in collaboration with Science Policy Group, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Karnataka Library Association and JRD Tata Memorial Library. Congratulations!!!

JULY 2018

  • Deep Prakash wins best poster award at the Asia Pacific Worm Meeting APWM2018 at Seoul National University, South Korea. Congratulations!!!

  • Deep receives a travel award for attending APWM2018

JUNE 2018

  • Shubham Joge receives the prestigious Gandhi Fellowship. He is all set to transition from social behaviour/swarming in Pseudomonas aeruginosa to social causes for human beings. CONGRATULATIONS Shubham.

MAY 2018

  • Jyothi BR B. tech thesis work on "Abiotic stresses perturb lipid droplet homeostasis in C. elegans." garners her the first prize at MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology. Congratulations, Jyothi!

MARCH 2018

  • Dr. Anubhuti Dixit has an Assistant Professor job at Amity University, Delhi. Congratulations!!!