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    US Patent granted for Dr Vaidhyanathan's work on water splitting

    Posted on Jul 24, 2019
    IISER Pune faculty member Dr R Vaidhyanathan's work has been granted a US patent for the preparation of a covalent organic framework (COF) that can serve as an electrocatalyst to split water. Hydrogen and oxygen, the constitutent molecules of water, thus released, have vital industrial applicatio...
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    Supramolecular protein assemblies: A rational design approach

    Posted on Jul 23, 2019
    Self assembly of proteins into superstructures is of interest considering its implications in variety of applications such as gene delivery, vaccine design and diagnostics. Genetic engineering involving computational methods and rational design strategies have been employed to design protein superst...
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    Physiological Mechanism to Reuse Storage in the Brain

    Posted on Jul 03, 2019
    [caption id="attachment_1643" align="alignright" width="2001"] Graphic by Rafeeque Mavoor[/caption] On any given day you get to work, park your vehicle, meet a colleague, surprise an old friend or taste vada pav for the first time. Only some of these experiences will become memories that will las...
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    Breaker of Boundaries: Interview with Dr. Thomas Pucadyil

    Posted on Jun 04, 2019
    Dr. Thomas Pucadyil runs the Reconstitution Biology lab in IISER Pune. His research is based on a novel approach to address questions in membrane biology that he pioneered during his postdoctoral work. His techniques have found great success, as evidenced by the many accolades he has received, the m...
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    Increased vulnerability of bacteria in novel environments

    Posted on Apr 26, 2019
    Typically, the number of individuals in a population is a good estimate of whether or not bacteria can evolve under certain conditions. Larger populations carry more biological variation and adapt faster to new environments. This primarily happens as at least some of the population may cope with the...
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    SERB Distinguished Investigator Award to Two IISER Pune Scientists

    Posted on Apr 06, 2019
    Dr. Shouvik Datta (Physics) and Dr. Pinaki Talukdar (Chemistry) have been selected for the Distinguished Investigator Award (DIA) given by Department of Science and Technology (DST)’s Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB). This one-time career award recognises Principal Investigators of S...
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    Covalent Organic Framework derived flexible white-light emitters

    Posted on Nov 14, 2018
    In a collaborative effort from research groups at IISER Pune (R. Vaidhyanathan, Partha Hazra) and IIT Bombay (Dinesh Kabra), a covalent organic framework (COF) material has been synthesized, which can be used for the coating of white-Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) as an alternative for commerciall...
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    Bhatnagar Prize to Dr Thomas Pucadyil

    Posted on Sep 26, 2018
    Dr Thomas Pucadyil, Associate Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been selected for CSIR's Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in the area of Biological Sciences for the year 2018. Named after founder Director of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) India, the prize recognizes outsta...
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    On water fountains of Mumbai: Sahapedia-UNESCO Fellowship

    Posted on Jul 12, 2018
    PhD student Swapna Joshi has just completed a short project as a Sahapedia-UNESCO Fellow on pyaavs (drinking water fountains) of Mumbai. Swapna's study traces the history of pyaavs from their inception in colonial Bombay to the recent efforts to restore and conserve the pyaavs. [gallery ids="1511...
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    Taming quantum objects

    Posted on Apr 15, 2018
    Dr. Rejish Nath and his team at IISER Pune involving his students Yashwant Chougale and Sagarika Basak have recently reported their work on quantum dynamics in the journal Physical Review Letters. Here, the team describes their main findings from this work.The movements of classical objects are easy...
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    Evoking Fractals for In-depth Analysis of ECG Signals

    Posted on Dec 28, 2017
    Researchers at IISER Pune have developed a novel way to analyze heart dynamics that could potentially be used in the diagnosis of abnormalities of the heart. The analysis is based on the mathematical concept of fractals, which are repeating patterns that are similar at any scale. Fractals are...
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    Understanding Cancer: Role of DNA-dependent protein kinase

    Posted on Nov 21, 2017
    Understanding cancer:  Role of DNA-dependent protein kinase in transformation of normal cells to cancer cells [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="230"] Cover page of the issue shows an example of intracellular trafficking, one of the phenomena found to be different between norm...
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    IISER Pune iGEM Team Wins Silver Medal in Boston

    Posted on Nov 18, 2017
    Improving TB Diagnostics through Synthetic Biology A team of seven undergraduates who competed in the “olympics” of synthetic biology, the international Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) contest, have won a silver medal at the GiantJamboree that took place from 9-13 November 2017 in Boston, ...
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    Agreement signed for Smt Indrani Balan Science Activity Centre

    Posted on Aug 10, 2017
    Following the announcement of endowment to IISER Pune from Balan group in May last year, the two organizations have now signed a formal agreement towards for construction of a building for for a science activity centre at IISER Pune. In a total of 60,000 sq ft of area, this building, “Smt. Indrani ...
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    Discovery of Saraswati supercluster and Giant Radio Galaxies

    Posted on Aug 03, 2017
    Shishir Sankhyayan, a PhD student in the Physics Programme at IISER Pune has been involved in two major astronomical discoveries that have received world-wide attention-- the supercluster Saraswati, and 25 rare Giant Radio Galaxies. In this feature article, Harshini Tekur gives us a detailed bre...