News

News from this year

  • Jan 2024: Firdousi Parvez successfully defended her PhD thesis.
  • Jan 2024: Krishna KJ joined the group for a 5-month project.
  • Dec 2023: Simran joined the group for her BSMS semester project.
  • Dec 2023: Devika Sangpal joined the group for her master’s thesis project.
  • Nov 2023: Firdousi Parvez joined Walti lab at the University of Arizona as a postdoc fellow.
  • Aug 2023: Ipsita Padhy joined the group as a graduate student in Chemistry.
  • July 2023: Zainab Amin successfully defended her comprehensive seminar in Biology and was promoted to SRF.
  • Apr 2023: Firdousi presented her pre-synopsis seminar.
  • Apr 2023: JCLAB shifted to C-125B with a bigger lab space.
  • Apr 2023: Abhradeep Sarkar successfully defended his semester project seminar in Chemistry.
  • Feb 2023: Soumya Sahoo won Best Poster Award at the 28th Annual Meeting of the National Magnetic Resonance Society of India hosted by IISER Berhampur.
Old News
    • Oct 2022: Zainab Amin successfully defended her departmental seminar in Chemistry.
    • July 2022: Prajakta Vishwasrao (MSc analytical from Mumbai) joined group as a project trainee for a period of six months.
    • June 2022: Meghana Goel (pursuing MSc from Thapar Institute, Patiala) joined group as a summer trainee for a period of two months.
    • May 2022: Guneet Singh Tarang successfully defended his BS-MS thesis and will be joining Institute of Organic Cemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC) and Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany for his PhD.
    • Mar 2022: Firdousi Parvez won Best Poster Award at the 27th Annual Meeting of the National Magnetic Resonance Society of India hosted by IIT Gandhinagar via zoom.
    • Jan 2022: Nikhil Sunny successfully defended his colloquium in Biology.
    • Dec 2021: Soumya Sahoo successfully defended his departmental seminar in Chemistry.
    • Dec 2021: Osama Azmi successfully defended his comprehensive seminar in Biology and promoted to SRF.
    • Aug 2021: Zainab Amin joined group as a graduate student in Chemistry.
    • May 2021: Guneet Singh joined group for BS-MS 5th year project in Biology.
    • Jan 2021: Saleem Yousf successfully defended his PhD thesis.
    • Dec 2020: Osama Azmi defended his colloquium in Biology.
    • Aug 2020: Soumya Sahoo joined group as a graduate student in Chemistry.
    • Aug 2020: Nikhil Sunny joined group as a graduate student in Biology.
    • April 2020: Harshad Paithankar successfully defended his PhD thesis.
    • Feb 2020: Harshad Paithankar left our group for good, and joined as a Research Associate at CBS Mumbai.
    • Jan 2020: M Haritha (Amrita School of Biotechnology, Kerala) joined group for her Master’s dissertation.
    • Jan 2020: Sayee Sawale (IBB, SPPU, Pune) joined group for her Master’s dissertation.
    • Jan 2020: Osama Aazmi joined group as a graduate student in Biology.
    • Jan 2020: Samrat Maratkar joined group as a graduate student in Chemistry.
    • Nov 2019: Saleem Yousf successfully defended his pre-synopsis seminar.
    • Oct 2019: Samrat Maratkar joined group to work on a DBT-funded project.
    • Oct 2019: Firdousi Parvez successfully defended her Comprehensive exam on 4th Oct 2019 and is now a Senior Research Fellow.
    • Aug 2019: Harshad Paithankar successfully defended his pre-synopsis seminar.
    • Aug 2019: Guneet Singh and Rohit Raj joined lab for their semester projects.
    • May 2019: Harshad Paithankar was awarded travel award from Infosys Foundation for attending a Gordon Research Conference (Computational Aspects of Biomolecular NMR) at Switzerland.
    • May 2019: Harshad Paithankar was awarded full travel award from CSIR for attending a Gordon Research Conference (Computational Aspects of Biomolecular NMR) at Switzerland.
    • Feb 2019: Saleem Yousf was awarded partial travel award from Infosys foundation for attending a conference at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
    • Jan 2019: Shaira Ismail (from University of Kashmir, J&K) joined group for her M.Sc. thesis project.
    • Dec 2018: Shivaanee Kothavale (from VIT, Vellore) joined group for her B.Tech. thesis project.
    • Dec 2018: Alhamd Khan (from SRM University, Chennai) joined group for his B.Tech. thesis project.
    • Dec 2018: Srishti Gupta (from Symbiosis International University, Pune) joined group for her M.Sc. thesis project.
    • Sept 2018: Student office shifted from C-122 to C-124B in Main Building.
    • April 2018: Extra Mural Funding from Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India got approved.
    • Jan 2018: Dr. Santosh Kumar has been offered to join as an Assistant Professor at NIT Rourkela.
    • Sept 2017: Jeetender Chugh was selected as a Sakura Science Program participant to visit Osaka University, Japan fully sponsored by Japan Science and Technology Agency.
    • Sept 2017: Ms. Firdousi Parvez joined group as a Graduate Student.
    • Aug 2017: Ms. Firdousi Parvez joined group as a Rotation Student for 15 days.
    • Aug 2017: Mr. Nishesh Kumar Gupta joined group as a Graduate Student.
    • Jul 2016: Dr. Santosh Kumar joined group as a DST N-SERB Post Doctoral Fellow.
    • Jul 2016: Ms. Sarita Tripathi joined group as a DST Project Fellow.
    • Jan 2016: Extra Mural Funding from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India got approved.
    • Dec 2016: Mr. Saleem Yousf successfully defended his comprehensive exam on 30th Dec 2016 and is now a Senior Research Fellow.
    • Dec 2015: Mr. Harshad Paithankar successfully defended his comprehensive exam on 23rd Dec 2015 and is now a Senior Research Fellow.
    • July 2015: Chemical-Biology PhD student Mr. Parth Raval joined lab for rotation for 15 days starting 3rd August 2015.
    • July 2015: Ms. Himani Rawat successfully defended her comprehensive exam on 30th July 2015.
    • July 2015: Chemistry Int-PhD student Ms. Bandana Kumari joined lab for rotation for a month starting 11th July 2015.
    • Jan 2015: Mr. Saleem Yousuf joined group as a Graduate student.
    • May 2014: Ms. Parvathy L joined group as a summer student.
    • Jan 2014: Mr. Harshad Paithankar joined group as a Graduate student.
    • Aug/Sep 2013: Wet-lab work started on Bench 8, Lab 2, PEB 3 (now G1 block).
    • Aug 2013: Ms. Himani Rawat joined group as a Graduate student.
    • Mar 2013: Dr. Chugh joined as Assistant Professor in Department of Chemistry at IISER Pune and started Bio-NMR research group.
    • Jan 2013: Our Nature Article on the discovery and characterization of fast RNA switches is ranked in Top 10 by Faculty of 1000 in all fields and  in Top 2 in Structural Biology field.
    • Oct 2012: Our Nature Article on the discovery and characterization of fast RNA switches featured as News of the Week in Chemical and Engineering News magazine.



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