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Category Archives: Blog
Immunotherapy: the next frontier in rational anti-cancer drugs?
The recent approvals of chimeric antigen receptor t-cell (CART) therapy for commercial use has triggered renewed interest in both the immune-biology and molecular details of how cancers evade the immune system, but also generally the utility of “Synthetic Cell Biology” … Continue reading
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Synthetic morphogenesis at EMBL Heidelberg
The use of synthetic biology in engineering biological systems has been rapidly expanding. the conference at EMBL Heidelberg from 17-20 March 2019 on “Synthetic Morphogenesis: From Gene Circuits to Tissue Architecture” highlighted this in the context of understanding growth and … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Conference, Morphogenesis, Research, Synthetic biology
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One, many and the nanometer collective: Dynein gliding assays show the way
Our 5 year long study on dynein can be summarized in the “one, many and collective” phrase. We have been able to show that teams of motors on a surface in a gliding assay appear to transport different lengths of … Continue reading
Posted in Biophysics, Blog, Cytoskeleton, Microtubules, Molecular motors
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Field microscope
After collecting a small personal museum of microscopes (I don’t have a very big house, so there are limits to it), it was thrilling to complete a project with Yash (BS-MS 2018) and Prof. Rapol in Physics @iiserpune, where we … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Device development, Microscopy, Microscopy, Outreach, iGEM
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Foldscope ver.2
A weekend coffee well spent assembling the Foldscope
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EMBO Workshop on Size and Shape
Chaitanya Athale just returned from an exciting meeting at NCBS Bangalore (ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು) on physical principles of development and morphogenesis. Meeting old friends and making new ones. The most striking images were from Olivier Hamant, ENS Lyon France & Sainsbury Labs … Continue reading
Posted in Lab achievements, Pattern formation
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Best Poster Award to Kunalika Jain at the Gordon Conference
Kunalika Jain from the lab has received a 3D printed Microtubule as a best-poster award at the 2017 Gordon Conference on Motile and Contractile Systems
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Latex: Better Scientific Documentation
Bibtex Otherwise my favourite means of maintaining bibliographies. A small list of useful bibstyle files that I needed to modify Journal Citation type Reference type .bst file Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy (PINSA) (Athale and Chaudhari 2010) For … Continue reading
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News
Check out our “OpenPositions” page- an offer for a computational project paid as Project Assistant for training in Biological Image analysis under a BigData framework. Last date for applications 30/12/2017. To know more about the larger context, refer to Stephens … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cellular computations, Commentaries, Reductionism vs. Systems, Research, Uncategorized, scientific_writing
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How to succeed at interviews for research positions
Given that we work in a research institute, it is often our job to take on trainees, pre-PhD candidates, post-doctoral researchers and even fellow faculty applicants. I will focus currently only on the amusing incidents (that also highlight a potential … Continue reading →