Who we are?
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
Dec 21, 2024: ODAA alumni lecture showcasing laboratory research
Jan 3 and 4, 2025: Current Trends in Active Matter Physics
Feb 3-8, 2025: EMBO PhD course IISER Pune
Feb 21-22, 2025: Physics of Cells and Tissues 3.0
Mar 10-12, 2025: 'RISE' Longevity India Conference
Group tattle
2024
December: We host Prof Senthil Muthuswamy, CCR, NCI for an informal group review and department seminar
December: Ramray gives a talk in the International Conference on Biomedical Engineering Singapore 2024
December: Shyamili wins best poster award at RYIM, Bengaluru
November: Shyamili defends her PhD thesis
November: Ramray anchors a discussion on ageing and longevity at the Bangalore Tech Summit, 2024
November: Inbasekar secures the DBT Research Associateship
November: Ramray reviews his research in the meeting of the EMBO communities in EMBO Heidelberg.
October: Madhumitha's paper accepted for publication in Biophysical Journal
September: Satyarthi gets the best oral presentation award at the CeNSE student research symposium
September: Ijas and Soujanya secure the Axis Bank fellowship for their PhD research
September: Ramray gets the IISc award for excellence in teaching
September: We host Prof Rahul Siddharthan for a department seminar
August: Satyarthi's abstract accepted for microTAS
August: Ramray secures the Yusuf Hamied Royal Society Travel Fellowship with Philip Pearce and Mohit Kumar Jolly
August: Inbasekar and Anchita help coorganize the Longevity India Industry conclave
August: We host Prof Tanmay Lele for a department seminar
August: Tanvi, Ijas and Soujanya join the group
July: Ramray presents our group's work at the National Cancer Institute, NIH at Bethesda
July: Ramray participates in the final Templeton summit in Minneapolis, MN