We are recruiting. An DBT/WT India Alliance funded post-doc positions is immediately available in our group (for details see below). Interested candidates (graduated with Ph.D in last 1 yr) can send their applications by the end of April.

As a chemist, I have always dreamed of Chem Soc Rev. An article of a special issue celebrating the achievement of RSC fellows by Semanti Mukherjee Manisha Poudyal Pradeep Kadu and Kritika. Thanks SERB SCAN Centre IITB IIT Bombay Biosciences & Bioengineering, IIT Bombay for support. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

The number of different new years/calendars is proportional to the age of a civilization! 😃

Happy Gudi Padwa/Ugadi/Navreh!

The new ASI dig at Rakhigarhi is throwing up some amazing finds from early, mature and late Harappan periods. Some are multi-storey buildings. These are just from a small area; there still are huge unexplored mounds. 1/n

NIG offers Postdoctoral Fellowship:
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If you are interested in live-cell imaging/analysis to reveal how chromatin behaves in living cells and how its behavior contributes to cellular functions, please DM me!
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We are thrilled and honoured by your esteemed presence Hon President Madam President of India and dedicate CAR-T cell therapy to nation. Hopefully this will help million of patients. Hasmukh Jain Gaurav Narula MD NIH Nirali Shah Laurus Labs Tata Memorial Hospital IIT Bombay

Check out the latest pre-print from our lab. Amazing work from Jan Dreyer, Giulia Ricci and Jeroen van den Berg. True team work with many essential collaborators Alexander van Oudenaarden Anja Groth 🇺🇦, Sabrina Spencer, Vivek Bhardwaj and many more. Feedback welcome!

Our paper on nucleosome repositioning in breast cancer is now published in Clinical Epigenetics! …lepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
▶️Nucleosome gain marks deregulated TFs
▶️Shorter distances between nucleosomes in cancer
▶️NRL affected by gene expression, methylation, H1 histones, repeats

I read somewhere that the oldest text, Rigveda, has many 'loan' words associated with other families of languages, suggesting that even in the Bronze Age/Iron Age, we had diversity. Genetics also seem to indicate the same.

Our latest view on centromeres of fungal pathogens! Thanks to Heitman lab at Duke for the encouragement to write a review for PLOS Pathogens, and Aswathy_N_P, HashimReza to portray how centromeres mediate genome innovations and MML@jncasr for comments and suggestions!

Worli to Marine Drive in 15 minutes 💕🎉. The miracle of Mumbai’s Infrastructure revolution

Our new paper is out!
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Through multiscale simulations and lattice modeling, we show how phase-rich and phase-sensitive lipid membrane could have served as matrix for organization of mononucleotides and possibly “catalyse” the formation of oligonucleotides in the origins of life.

My lab would like to recruit Ph.D. students with M Sc Physics, Mathematics, or Physical Chemistry; B Tech (or BE) in any core engineering subject. Research area: Biophysics and computation. Apply to the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering at IIT Bombay.

Congratulations Chetan and colleagues for the paper and the clinical research you do Chetan Dhamne

Vitamin D deficiency is being over-diagnosed: the “normal range” is set too high

Latest India data among healthy people show that if these levels are used, then 98% will be “insufficient or deficient”

TLDR: The reference range has to be customised for India. See slide.

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New CryoEM in our campus IIT Bombay . Great effort by Ruchi Anand Ruchi Anand, Sandip Kaledhonkar and team.

New study from our lab demonstrating endomembrane rupture dynamics governing bacterial fate inside host cells. We provide a model for quantitative estimation of bacterial toxin resulting in the dynamic outcomes.