Prof. Rajesh Gokhale, Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been appointed as the Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology. He will succeed Dr. Renu Swarup who has been in this role since 2018. Prof. Gokhale's appointment will be for a period of two years. To wish Prof. Gokhale on this occasi...

The Maharashtra State Faculty Development Academy (MSFDA), Mumbai and IISER Pune, will jointly work to develop and implement capacity-building workshops for faculty members of universities and affiliated colleges under the Department of Higher and Technical Education, Government of Maharashtra. The...

Dr. Srabanti Chaudhury and Prof. R. Boomi Shankar are among those selected to receive the Bronze Medals of the Chemical Research Society of India for 2022. The Bronze Medal of CRSI honors young researchers for their contributions to research in chemistry. The CRSI, a premier professional chemical s...

July 29, 2021 Gyana Tripathy is invited to deliver lecture in Jadavpur University (India) titled “Re-Os geochronology of organic-rich sedimentary rocks” July 16, 2021 Devapriya Chattopadhyay delivers an invited talk titled “Paleontological research inthe Indian subcontinent: at ...

In early September this year, the Sports Club and Sports Committee at IISER Pune initiated the "Step-up Step-in Challenge" where they called out to the institute members to walk, and, as a group, complete within two weeks a collective distance of 3500 kilometers, which corresponds to the approx...

The twenty-20 symposium, jointly organised by IISER Pune and IISc Mathematics departments took place on September 17-18, 2021. We had 40 online short research talks by members of both departments (faculty, post-docs, and advanced PhD students) over 2 days. We are hopeful that this activity would p...

Dr. Britto Sandanaraj’s group is working on developing new technologies and engineering new molecules for applications in the field of chemical biology and molecular imaging. In a recent set of papers, the group reported synthesis of new types of self-assembling artificial proteins and design ...

Dr. Sudipta Sarkar (Assistant Professor, Earth and Climate Science) has been elected a Fellow of Geological Society of London. Dr. Sudipta Sarkar The Geological Society of London is the oldest professional body of geologists in the world, founded in 1807. The Society works to improve know...

The online inauguration and formal virtual launch of IISER Pune's technology business incubator, Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) - IISER Pune SEED Foundation (AIC-SEED) was held today. A recording of the inauguration event is here.  Dr. R.A. Mashelkar, FRS, National Research Professor, and emi...

Prof. Shyam S. Rai, Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth and Climate Science has received the Raja Ramanna Fellowship for this year. The fellowship, initiated in the year 2000 by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), recognises senior scientists, engineers and technologists involved in ...

Most things are what they are, no matter what their genesis. For calcium though, provenance matters. This is the take-home from a recently published study from Dr. Suhita Nadkarni’s group at IISER Pune in which the team has investigated if and how calcium ions from different sources impact memory ...

In a recent series of papers, Dr. Raghavendra Kikkeri’s group explores the therapeutic potential of heparan sulfate, a linear carbohydrate (polysaccharide) molecule, which is typically found at the cell surface and in the extracellular matrix that holds cells together. Shown to be important...

In a paper in the Biophysical Journal, Dr. Chaitanya Athale’s group described an automated programme to track intracellular granules while viewing the molecules under a differential interference contrast (DIC) microscope. This image-analysis programme will help researchers observe, follow, and stu...

Prof. Anjan Banerjee (Professor, Biology and Chair, Institutional Committee on Administration) has been awarded the Tata Innovation Fellowship 2020-21, and Prof. Harinath Chakrapani (Professor, Chemistry and Dean, International Relations and Outreach) has won the S. Ramachandran National Bioscienc...

In a paper published in Cell Chemical Biology, Dr. Siddhesh Kamat's research group studied the role played by the lipid tail of lyso-PS in regulating the function of cells involved in immune response.    Lysophospholipids are a class of signaling lipids that regulate many important physiolo...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat (Associate Professor, Biology) has received CDRI 2021 award for Excellence in Drug Research in the Life Sciences category. Given each year by the CSIR's Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, these awards recognize exceptional work in drug research. The awards ...

IISER Pune-IDeaS Scholarship is awarded to outstanding undergraduates and PhD scholars at IISER Pune. In the 2020-21 academic year, 6 BSMS, 5 Integrated PhD, and 10 PhD students have been awarded this scholarship. The selection is based on grades during the first two semesters at IISER Pune. ...

Dr. Sunish Radhakrishnan (Associate Professor, Biology) and Dr. Nishad Matange (Assistant Professor, Biology) have been awarded the prestigious DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance Senior and Intermediate Fellowships respectively, in the category of Basic Biomedical Research. Dr. Sunish Radhak...

In recognition of their contribution to the respective areas of research, three scientists at IISER Pune, Prof. Anjan Banerjee (Professor, Biology), Dr. Thomas Pucadyil (Associate Professor, Biology) and Dr. Seema Sharma (Associate Professor, Physics) are among those elected as Fellows of the Indi...

Prof. S G Srivatsan (Chemistry, IISER Pune) has been selected for the Sun Pharma Research Award for 2020 in the Pharmaceutical Sciences category. Each year, the Award recognises excellent original research by Indian scientists in medical and pharmaceutical sciences. The prize carries a trophy, cit...