A recently organized workshop at Pune university virtually invited me to speak about iGEM and synthetic biology. It was an opportunity for me to do something I’ve been meaning to do for a while- have a dialogue with some of my former students who were part of the team. The video of the dialogue is posted here [pune-univ-synthbio].
The timeline of IISER Pune’s closure is interesting:
The area of synthetic biology is exploding. Or so it would seem. With Craig Venter, the old hand of genomics now promising everything from bio-energy to solving the climate change crisis, it seems like the solution to the ills of the world. And that ofcourse makes one a little skeptical. To gauge whether this is considered in the community to be overhyped, I thought I’d turn to you the science internet world. If you can click on the options below, I will keep the data and post the survey results. So here goes:
The immediate motivation for this was the SynBio 1.0 meeting recently concluded at Indrashil university, funded by the Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (SERB). With speakers ranging from the Genomics Czar of India, Dr. Samir Brahmachari doing forecasting of future revolutions in genomics, to metabolic engineering of Tobacco plants from ICGEB Delhi, and an editor from Nature-Springer speaking about predatory journals, it was a rather wide palette.
The most interesting development was to see the enthusiastic students from Jawaharlal Nehru Univ. (JNU) from the 6-month SynthBio training course. These post-grads might become the future trained persons who could be the drivers of new research in India.
Our supporting data relating to the work published by Manasi Gangan and me in Roy. Soc. open science are now available for anybody who wishes to use them at DataDryad
Gangan MS, Athale CA
Date Published: October 10, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2bs69.2
Time-lapse images of E. coli MG1655 cells in continuous culture grown in the ‘mother machine’
Engineering and technology's report on a few approaches to experimentally test the Turing patterns in experiment and what they mean for artificial life and basic biology.
Cell length distribution of E. coli MG1655 cells from DIC images of cells in a microfluidics device
IIT Ropar
zed by the Mohali node of NNMCB (National Network on Mathematical and Computational Biology)- a DST initiative to enhancetraining in math-comp biology. I will be speaking. Visting ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦੇ for science- a first- IIT-Ropar, Punjab
A report from the Royal Society Interface 2016 by Llorens et al.
Cockroach circuit
The Romans are under attack. "By Jupiter"
First steps in installing Jupyter on my Mac OSX 10.12.6 Sierra
In 2015 we hosted an iGEM team form IISER Pune. The theme was Mycobacterium revelio- in the spirit of Harry and his revleaing charm. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is prevalent worldwide, but India tops the charts for prevalance. Our project aimed to produce a novel diagnistic tool for low cost and rapid detection.
L to R: Snehal, Ira, Prachiti, Prashant, Yash and Siddhesh.
Follow our updates in our exciting journey here:
Tweets by @Iiserpune_igem
1) Surinder Cycles, Karve road, Deccan (near Garware College)
Road racers (Bianchi, Trek, Cannondale), hybrids (Schwinn, Hercules, Trek), MTBs (Hercules, Schwinn, Trek, etc…. many varieties), standard city bikes (BSA, hercules, hero)
2) Phadke Haud, part of old city has something in the range of 10 shops (hercules company outlet, Sardar cycles with a huge choice, and many smaller ones). Many shops will bargain
3) Life Cycle Mall, Tilak Road (opposite Pandit Automobiles showroom, near Abhinav College intersection, Tilak Road, Pune city)
ONLY high end imported goods. Good cycles and a wide choice, but a tad expensive.
Soon to come: google map links to these places.
#petphysicist2 is up! Enjoy
#petphysicist1: The first in a series.
Inspired by discussions with experimental biologists, physicists and close friends. None of the characters are meant to harm any person, animal or idea.
