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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 et al. (2015) Big Data: Astronomical or Genomical? PLoS Biol 13(7): e1002195.
- Orth et al. (2017) Microscopy, meet big data. Cell Systems.
iGEM2017 team from IISER Pune organizes an IndiaMeetup and we have a special guest from Peshawar (via Skype)!
Our study on the spatial organization of receptor dimerization dynamics predicts a differential effect of membrane heterogeneity of GPCRs and shows how one of these is likely to depend on actin-corrals. To know more read: Deshpande, S; Pawar, A; Dighe, A; Athale, C. A.; Sengupta, D. (2017) Role of Spatial Inhomogenity in GPCR Dimerisation Predicted by Receptor Association-Diffusion Models. Phys. Biol. Volume 14, Number 3
Dr. Rahul Somavanshi from Univ. Heidelberg and Dept. of Systems & Synthetic Biology, MPI fuer Terrestrische Mikrobiologie (Terrestrial Microbiology), Marburg, Germany speaks to us on PTS system and a fascinating pairwise-FRET study.
Work done over the last 3 years on protein membrane receptor diffusion and aggregation dynamics to fit to experimental data has been accepted for publication. In this, we show kinetic rates of protein-association in the membrane can predict whether the mobility will be affected by membrane-ordering. Using two GPCR single-molecule kinetics experiments as a baseline we demonstrate the utility of such a kinetic model. You can read more in Deshpande et al (in press).
An App called Math: A symposium bringing together snippets of research from physics, chemistry, biology, earth sciences and humanities, to highlight the role of mathematics. The biology talk- “Why we have five fingers on each hand and self organised morphogenesis” which invokes Turing patterns.
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.
The GatesFoundation has an international (mostly) PhD scholarship to Cambridge university. Useful for students in their final year of Masters degrees.
Our paper on the study of the effect of growth rate on cell size population distributions is now published in Royal Society Open Science. As an experiment for me, we have also released most of our raw-data in spreadsheet format using Dryad Digital Repository: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2bs69
Cell length distribution of E. coli MG1655 cells from DIC images of cells in a microfluidics device
11-13 Feb: Andrzej Jarynowski, a researcher in mathematical epipdemiology based in Krakow, Poland visits the lab. His work is an exciting blend of econo-physics, infectious disease and complex systems.
Shooting stars Gallery of women scientists in a Royal Society project
2017-Jan: At long last our work (Manasi Gangan and me) with bacterial cell sizes is accepted for publication!
2016-12-26: Anushree’s work hits the popular press. Our work on development and testing an automated kymography tool has been accepted in PLOS ONE. And now it can also be seen in the popular press- the Pune Mirror’s reporter Priyanka Das has filed a report: “IISER comes up with tech for data accuracy” – Pune Mirror -By Priyanka Das, Pune Mirror | Dec 26, 2016, 02.30 AM IST

19-12-2016: Anushree, Kunalika and Manasi’s combined efforts are published in PLOS ONE. A good combination of experiments and computation.
13-12-2016: The lab travels to the MMSYMP: Computational and Experimental Studies of Microtubules and Motors at IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai.
21-22 May 2016: Advances in mathematical and computational biology (AMCB) at IIT-Ropar: Instructional school organi
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
The iGEM (international genetically engineered machines) contest for 2016 is accepting PI registrations! Let the games begin!
#Biophysics Week called by the Biophysical Society of USA 7-11 March! And some amazing biophysics in the dispersal of fern spores, providing an understanding and inspiration for bio-mimetics.
A report from the Royal Society Interface 2016 by Llorens et al.
Reproducibility of measurements in synthetic biology- the 2014-15 iGEM InterLab study involved measurements of fluorescence from promoters distributed to multiple labs have been collated and published in PlosOne. The results suggest measurement methodology is a bigger cause of variation between results from lab-to-lab as compared to the construct themselves. And the IISER Pune team is part of the consortium acknowledged in the paper!
Summer-Internship with the most exciting thing in neurobiology DIY since Luigi Galvani’s frog. http://blog.backyardbrains.com/
Cockroach circuit
The global availability of scientists and engineers from the World Economic Forum and plotted using Google’s DataViewer
27-30 Dec 2015: the National Meeting on Mathematical and Computational Biology organized by the Pune node.
2015 nobel prize for medicine and physiology- to some

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