Lab tattle
April '24: Ramray presents the group's work in the Workshop on Computational Oncology held in IIT Patna
April '24: Ramray presents the group's work at the mechanobiology Institute, NUS, Singapore
April '24: Ramray presents the group's work at the EMBO GIN meeting in NTU Singapore
March '24: Ramray gives two lectures in the workshop on "theoretical approaches in cancer progression and treatment" at ICTS
March '24: Ramray attends the 16th Young Investigator's Meeting in Bhopal as a mentor
February '24: Harini begins her exchange visit in the laboratory of Ann-Odile Huber at the Institut de Biologie Valrose, Nice France
February' 24: The group sets up a stall and showcases its science on Open Day
February '24: Ramray delivers a lecture on Darwin Day at the Visvesvariya museum
February '24: Collaborative paper on NHE9 in colorectal cancer led by Hari Prasad with inputs from Mallar now published in Molecular Cancer Research
February '24: Ramray participates in departmental and institutional outreach at Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology at Davangere
February '24: Bidita participates in teaching as part of Science for Rural India outreach
February '24: Ramray participates in departmental and institutional outreach at St Aloysius College in Mangalore
January '24: Ramray hosts Dr Amulya Sreekumar from UPenn for a seminar in DBG
January '24: Lab contingent travels to IACR 2024: Ramray and Shyamili give talks; Mallar Satyarthi, Nilesh and Harini present posters
January '24: Bharat's paper gets a press release from IISc
January '24: Madhumitha gives an oral talk in the 10th symposium of the Dept of Bioengineering, IISc
January '24: Bidita and Partha present posters in the 10th Symposium of the Dept of Bioengineering, IISc
January '24: Ramray hosts Prof Ganesh Namasivayam from Kyoto University for a seminar in DBG
January '24: Patent for the use of repurposable drugs in cancer awarded by IPO to Shruthi, Deepak and Ramray
January '24: Group alumna Megha visits us from Vancouver
January '24: Yogesh Saravanan from Felix Rico's lab in Aix-Marseille begins a one month group visit
December '23: Jimpi gets the Genesis award for best PhD thesis
December '23: Ramray co-organizes the IISc-IBM STEM for Girls workshop
December '23: Group alumna Anagha visits us from San Francisco
December '23: Prasanna presents his work as a flash talk and poster in the meeting on "Simulating tissue dynamics with cellular Potts models" at Lorentz Center, Leiden.
December '23: Ramray and Mohit host Prof Philip Pearce from University College London for a joint DBG-BE seminar
December '23: Purba successfully defends her PhD thesis on ovarian cancer metastasis
December '23: Group alumnus Dharma visits us from Chicago
December '23: Mallar, Sudiksha, Krithjgnan and Harini win prizes in the intradepartmental science quiz Koioc
December '23: Ramray presents on international granting opportunities at the Regional Young Investigator's meeting at ILS Bhubaneshwar
November '23: Purba joins Demolish Foods as a research scientist
November '23: Prasanna secures diversity funds from the Lorentz Center to travel to workshop on multiscale modeling at Leiden
November '23:Ramray presents updates on research under the Templeton grant at L’Institut d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST), Sorbonne, France
November '23: Ramray partcipates in a teacher training program at the IISc Challakere campus
November '23: Bidita secures a Prime Minister's Research Fellowship
October '23: Bharat's paper on the effect of mesothelial senescence on ovarian cancer published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
October '23: Prasanna's first paper on heterogeneity of adhesion in cancer cell populations now in bioRxiv
October '23: Ramray gives a talk in the 4th meeting of the Indian Cancer Genome Atlas held at IISER Pune.
September '23: Nilesh presents his work on the tumor vasculature on chip in the 'Nanobiotechnology: beyond the conventional' conference in CeNSE, IISc
September '23: Paper on the nonlinear dynamics of the limb pattern reaction-diffusion system accepted in Mathematical Biosciences
September '23: Paper with Samrat Chatterjee's group in THSTI on the role of neuraminidase inhibition in ovarian cancer accepted in iScience
July '23: Nikhita wins the Krothapally Satyanarayana and Vimaladevi Medal for her performance in the UG Biology program
July '23: Nikhita leaves the group to pursue her PhD at the University of California San Francisco
July '23: Monica ends her stint in the group and moves on to her PhD at the University of Wisconsin Madison
July '23: Prasanna successfully finishes his comprehensive evaluation and is now a PhD candidate
July '23: Ramray presents a poster in the India Alliance Conclave in Hyderabad
June '23: Purba presents a colloquium on her doctoral dissertation research
June '23: Ramray gives academy lectures at PSG College of Arts and Sciences in Coimbatore
June '23: We host Dr Sethu Pitchiaya from U Mich Ann Arbor for a seminar in DBG
June '23: Shyamili wins an ICMR travel award to attend the EACR 2023 Congress in Turin
June '23: Ramray participates in the 1st Franco Indian campus workshop of IISc with IIIT-D, Ashoka Uni, and the Université Côte d'Azur
June '23: We host Prof Kasturi Mitra from Ashoka University for a seminar in DBG.
June '23: Bharat leaves the group to join the graduate biology program at Vanderbilt University
June '23: Bharat's paper on senescence associated matrisomal phenotype now in bioRxiv
May '23: Satyarthi coorganizes a workshop on Finite Element Analysis in CeNSE
May '23: Krithjgnan joins the group as a project assistant to work on the dictyostelium-cancer project
May '23: Collaborative paper with Tapa Bhattacharya and his graduate student Sreepadmanabh (former group intern) is published in Biomedical Materials
May '23: Karthik, Nikhita and Bharat defend their undergraduate and masters thesis with aplomb
April '23: Prasanna selected for the Axis Bank PhD fellowship for the year 2023-24
April '23: Collaborative paper with Samrat Chatterjee, THSTI on metabolic models of ovarian cancer now in bioRxiv
April '23: Ramray is a visitor at the Laboratory of Adhesion and Inflammation at Aix-Marseille University, France
March '23: The morphogenesis group goes all out to showcase its science on Open Day 2023
March '23: Ramray co-organizes the NTU-IISc symposium on Health and Life Sciences at IISc
February '23: Vishnu BS wins best oral presentation prize at the Seoul International Symposium on Surgical Oncology 2023
February '23: Ramray coorganizes Physics of Cells and Tissues symposium with
Mohit Kumar Jolly
February '23: Biswadeep wins best poster award at the 3rd World Congress on translational cancer research, 2023
January '23: Jimpi defends her PhD thesis and leaves the lab to join Quynh Le's group at Stanford
January '23: CVS Prasanna wins best poster award at IACR annual meeting 2023
December '22: Ramray joins the editorial board of the Journal of Biosciences
November '22: Ramray gives a talk in the 4th Australasian Glycobiology Symposium
November '22: Ramray gives a talk in the 3rd International conference series organized by Oncoseek Bio
October '22: Navya Rastogi successfully defends her PhD thesis on circulating tumor cell isolation
October '22: Ramray gives a talk in the molecular and translational research conference at Sri Shankara Cancer Foundation, Bengaluru
October '22: Ramray gives a talk in the statistical biophysics program at ICTS, Bengaluru
October' 22: Sudiksha secures a PMRF fellowship through direct entry
October '22: Satyarthi successfully clears his comprehensive evaluation and is now a PhD candidate
September '22: Satyarthi attends the mechanobiology of cancer summer school in Barcelona
September '22: Mallar successfully clears his comprehensive evaluation and is now a PhD candidate
September '22: Anu showcases our research on social amoeba in the science exhibition of Pravega 2022
August '22: Shyamili wins Genesis, DST and EMBO travel awards to attend an EMBO conference on cancer signaling in Croatia
August '22: Mallar wins an EMBO travel award to attend a EMBO conference on cancer signaling in Croatia
August '22: JImpi wins Genesis Travel Award to attend a winter school on bioengineering in Barcelona
August '22: Jimpi and Satyarthi's paper on ancient ECMs accepted for publication in Computational and Systems Oncology
August '22: Jimpi presents her thesis colloquium
July '22: Shahid leaves the group to pursue his PhD under the CiM-IMPRS Graduate Program at Uni Münster
June' 22: Jimpi attends, and presents her work in the Winter School on Engineered Systems in Barcelona
June '22: Ramray coorganizes the MERCK Stem for Girls workshop at IISc
June '22: Ramray speaks at C-DNA workshop at CeNSE, IISc
June' 22: Ramray interacts with PUC teachers from Odisha at Challakere campus, IISc
May '22: Anu, Jayita and Souvik join the laboratory as undergraduate interns
May' 22: Dharma and Shyamili's review on ECM as a driver of tumor heterogeneity accepted for publication in Physical Biology
May '22: Dharma, Mallar and Shahid's paper on Galectin-9 accepted for publication in ACS Chemical Biology
May '22: Navya presents her PhD thesis colloquium
April '22: Monica and Bharath successfully defend their masters and undergraduate research theses.
March '22: Ramray gives a talk in Clevergene, Bangalore
February '22: Dharma nominated for the C V Hanumantha Rao best departmental thesis Medal
February '22: Biswadeep Ghosh Roy joins the laboratory as a project associate
January '22: Ramray gives a talk on galectins at Galectio Inc; Mallar presents his first poster in the 8th annual symposium of BSSE
December '21: Ramray joins the EMBO Global Investigator network
November '21: Research on "cellular agency in multicellular development and cancer" funded by John Templeton Foundation begins!
October '21: Ramray is associate professor, MRDG
September '21: Shahid rejoins the lab as a project assistant
August '21: Review with Stuart Newman and Tilmann Glimm on the synchrony of digit morphogenesis accepted in Biosystems
August '21: Monica rejoins the lab to work on her Masters project on morphogenesis. Bharat joins the lab to work on his undergraduate thesis on senescence and cancer.
July '21: Jimpi's paper on ovarian cancer spheroidogenesis
published in Life Science Alliance
June '21: Ramray is associate faculty, Bioengineering, IISc
May '21: Dharma's commentary on Gal-3 NT driven liquid-liquid phase separation published in PNAS
April '21: Durjay's paper on a unified framework on cancer migration gets published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology
April '21: Navya's paper on the turn effect in catching circulating cancer cells is published in Analytica Chimica Acta
March' 21: Dharma Pally successfully defends his PhD thesis!
Feb '21: Bhaskar's paper on heterogeneity within distcrete high mutator populations published in BMC Ecology and Evolution
Feb '21: Purba's paper on biphasic response of Collagen polymers to dermatan sulfates published in JBMR Part A
Jan '21: Ramray conferred with Prof. Priti Shankar Teaching Award for Science
Jan '21: Dharma's paper on breast cancer glycan heterogeneity is accepted for publication in ACS Central Science
Sep '20: Paper with Ambarish Ghosh group on nanobots detecting cancer ECM published in Angewandte Chemie
We are a group at the Indian Institute of Science, united by our interests in biological morphogenesis. Morphogenesis emphasizes searching for rules that determine the structure, and hence function, of tissues and organs. It also implies an investigation into how such rules are subverted, or new rules innovated, in diseases such as cancer.
Our group is diverse across several axes of identities and stages of scientific career. We strongly believe that fostering this diversity along with equality of opportunities, and inclusiveness in practice and attitudes is important to our collective productivity, and towards our efforts to understand, and better, our surroundings.
Graphical abstract of our latest paper (Arora et al, iScience, 2023)
ovarian cancer cells (green) interaction with mesothelial cells (red) Thapa et al, CMLS, 2023
Ovarian cancer cells showing colective aggregation on ECM substrata
simulations of ovarian cancer cells (green) with mesothelia (red) Thapa et al, CMLS, 2023
Our spheroid image on the cover (Langthasa et al, Lif Sci All, 2021)
simulation of a population of cells (Kumawat et al, BMC Ecol Evol, 2021)
