Group tattle
June: Siddharth leaves the group to begin his PhD in the University of Chicago
June: Madhumitha leaves the group to begin her research fellowship at IIT Madras
June: Krithjgnan leaves the group to begin his Masters in the University of Heidelberg
June: Vidhi leaves the group to begin her PhD in Mechanobiology Institute, NUS Singapore
June: Shyamili gives her PhD thesis colloquium
June: Madhumitha gives her MTech in Bioengineering thesis presentation
June: Harini gives her masters in life science thesis presentation
June: Prof Felix Rico and Dr Claire Valotteau visit our group as part of CEFIPRA/IEA collaboration exchange visits
June: Our group organizes Physics of Cells and Tissues 2.0 with Mohit Kumar Jolly's group
May: Group goes to Coorg for a lab retreat
May: Prasanna's paper on phenotypic heterogeneity in adhesion of cancer cells published in Biophys J
May: Ramray participates in the workshop on Flags, Landscapes and Gradients at IMSc Chennai
May: Siddharth gives a fab presentation of his undergraduate dissertation research
April: Ramray presents the group's work in the Workshop on Computational Oncology held in IIT Patna
April: Ramray presents the group's work at the mechanobiology Institute, NUS, Singapore
April: Ramray presents the group's work at the EMBO GIN meeting in NTU Singapore
March: Ramray gives two lectures in the workshop on "theoretical approaches in cancer progression and treatment" at ICTS
March: Ramray attends the 16th Young Investigator's Meeting in Bhopal as a mentor
February: Harini begins her exchange visit in the laboratory of Ann-Odile Huber at the Institut de Biologie Valrose, Nice France
February: The group sets up a stall and showcases its science on Open Day
February: Ramray delivers a lecture on Darwin Day at the Visvesvariya museum
February: Collaborative paper on NHE9 in colorectal cancer led by Hari Prasad with inputs from Mallar now published in Molecular Cancer Research
February: Ramray participates in departmental and institutional outreach at Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology at Davangere
February: Bidita participates in teaching as part of Science for Rural India outreach
February: Ramray participates in departmental and institutional outreach at St Aloysius College in Mangalore
January: Ramray hosts Dr Amulya Sreekumar from UPenn for a seminar in DBG
January: Lab contingent travels to IACR 2024: Ramray and Shyamili give talks; Mallar Satyarthi, Nilesh and Harini present posters
January: Bharat's paper gets a press release from IISc
January: Madhumitha gives an oral talk in the 10th symposium of the Dept of Bioengineering, IISc
January: Bidita and Partha present posters in the 10th Symposium of the Dept of Bioengineering, IISc
January: Ramray hosts Prof Ganesh Namasivayam from Kyoto University for a seminar in DBG
January: 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
2023
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