We congratulate Jyotirmay Srivastava, a PhD student in the lab of Dr Poonam Thakur for receiving the Visiting Scholar Award from Parkinson's foundation, USA. The award will facilitate a research visit to UAB.
Jyotirmay Poonam Thakur Parkinson's Foundation

The Biology student club Proteus is organizing the next edition of the Model Organism Talk Series today at 6 pm. Amrutha Swaminathan will be giving an overview on the use of Zebra Fish as a model organism.

Applications are invited for admission to the integrated Master and PhD program starting August, 2024 School of Biology, IISER-Thiruvananthapuram. Last date of application: April 22, 2024. Further details about the eligibility & selection process are here admissions.iisertvm.ac.in/iphd/index.php…

Applications are invited for admission to the PhD program for Varsha semester starting in August, 2024 School of Biology, IISER-Thiruvananthapuram. Last date of application: April 22, 2024. Further details about eligibility & selection process are here admissions.iisertvm.ac.in/phd/index.php/…

We congratulate Dr Sajesh Vijayan Sajesh Vijayan 🍉 സജേഷ് വിജയൻ 🍉 (he/him/his) a recent PhD graduate from the BEE Lab IISER-TVM for winning the coveted HFSP postdoctoral fellowship to carry out his postdoctoral work Western Biology. IISER Thiruvananthapuram

We welcome Dr. Yashraj Chavhan as a new faculty member in the School of Biology. His lab will use experimental evolution to study multicellularity, phenotypic plasticity, and the origin of cell differentiation in asexual microbes. Yashraj Chavhan
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We congratulate the team of Dr. Sabari Sankar Thirupathy sabari for their recent publication in Nucleic Acids Research Nucleic Acids Res. Here they describe the evolution of gene strand bias in bacteria. IISER Thiruvananthapuram
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We congratulate the team of Dr. Sadanana Singh for their recent publication in Frontiers - Genetics where they describe the genome sequence of the native Indian cattle breed Vechur. IISER Thiruvananthapuram
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Today we are celebrating the completion of 4 years of the Thakur Neurodegeneration Lab. The journey of doing PhD from a state university to running a lab in one of countries premier institutes has been nothing short of magical. Panjab University, Chandigarh IISER Thiruvananthapuram School of Biology, IISER-Thiruvananthapuram

We congratulate Bhagya Lakshmi R and other members of Prof. Tapas Manna's lab for their publication in EMBO Reports. In this paper, they describe the role of CKAP5 in stabilizing CENP-E at kinetochores Manna Lab
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Did you miss this workshop? The recording of the session is now available on YouTube. The session covered the basics of creating posters, choosing color schemes, useful software & tips for the presentation day. A great resource for all the researchers!
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Reminder about the poster workshop on 28th. Due to oversubscription, a live stream on youtube is planned. See the details 👇

We welcome Dr. Bandan Chakrabortty as a new faculty member in the School of Biology. His lab will be using computational tools to understand the physical and biomechanical principles that drive morphogenesis in living organisms.
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Congratulations to the team of Satish Khurana for their publication in Science Advances.

Congratulations to the teams of Dr. Ravi Maruthachalam and collaborator Kalika Prasad for their publication in Plant Cell Reports HapGen Lab rdcu.be/dyu60.

Group Picture of IISERTVM faculty with Prof. Morten Peter Meldal, Nobel laureate (2022) and his wife Dr. Phaedria during their visit to IISER TVM.