About us
We are a group at the Indian Institute of Science, united by our interests in 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.
We believe...
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.
Our approach
We use several approaches, in house and in collaboration with groups to investigate broadly how cells move within biological environments. Mostly, but not always, these are cancer cells, and we bother ourselves a lot with how they interact with, and remodel, their surrounding extracellular matrix, as well as how their sugars are deregulated.
Upcoming events
November 08, 2025: Department of Chemistry IIT Bombay
November 20, 2025: Gayle Brinkenhoff Breast Cancer Symposium, City of Hope Los Angeles, USA
Group tattle
2025
October
Ramray presents his work at Treat DM meeting in IISc
Ramray presents a seminar at the Wolfson Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Satyarthi gives his PhD thesis colloquium
Ramray is a visitor in the department of Mathematics at University College London
Ramray gives a talk at the Mech Bio Meeting in Bioengineering at IISc
Prasanna presents a poster at the Mech Bio Meeting in Bioengineering at IISc
September
Satyarthi presents his work at Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore
Prasanna presents his work at the UK Math Bio Symposium 2025 and at Oxford University
August
Mallar gives his thesis colloquium
Anchita and Bidita successful pass their comprehensive evaluations
June
Mallar attends and presents a poster in EACR Annual Congress 2025 at Lisbon, Portugal
IISC RGUHS grant begins
May
Collaborative paper with Ambarish and Deepak's group on therapeutic functionality of swimmers published in ACS Nano
May
Collaborative paper with Ambarish and Deepak's group on therapeutic functionality of swimmers published in ACS Nano
Anchita and Bharat (former alum) selected for, and attend the competitive program on ageing at Wood's Hole MBL, US
April
ICMR CAR grant begins
Navyasree joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow in collaboration with Ambarish Ghosh's and Deepak Saini's group
March
Gaurav joins the group as a project assistant
Tavishi's and Jimpi's paper on ovarian cancer spheroid mechanobiology now published in Life Science Alliance
Sudiksha and Bidita present posters on their research in the PMRF symposium 2025, at Hyderabad
Ramray presents work from the group at RISE Longevity conference in IISc Bangalore
Inbasekar, Bidita and Anchita present posters on their work in RISE Longevity conference in IISc Bangalore
Bidita bags best poster prize for her poster at RISE Longevity conference, IISc Bangalore
February
Collaborative paper lead by Souravi from Ambarish Ghosh's group published in J Microbio Robotics
Ramray gives a talk in POCT 3.0 in IISc Bangalore
Sudiksha presents a poster on her research in POCT 3.0 and wins the third prize for the same
Satyarthi gives a talk in the 8th International Conference on Recent Trends in Bioengineering, Pune, India
Ramray gives a seminar on recent research in the Biology department at IISER Pune, 2025
Ramray and Mallar participate in the EMBO PhD course at IISER Pune, 2025
Mallar presents a poster showcasing his research at the 6th International Cancer Symposium, in Lyon France
January
Mallar presents a poster showcasing his research at the 6th International Cancer Symposium, in Lyon France
Bidita presents her recent work in the annual symposium of IISc Bioengineering and wins the best poster prize
Shyamili leaves the group to join Oncostem Diagnostics
Ramray gives a talk on Mallar's research in Current Trends in Active Matter Physics at CeNSE, IISc
Nilesh and Bidita's paper on intravasation on chip accepted in Small