Prof. Thomas Pucadyil (Chair, Biology, IISER Pune) has been elected into the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) while Dr. G. J. Sreejith (Assistant Professor, Physics) has won the INSA Young Scientist Medal for 2020, along with Dr. Shradda Karve, a former PhD student at the institute. I...

IISER Pune is one of the centres where a high-performance computing facility is being set up as part of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). The progress of NSM towards indigenously developed supercomputers was reported by Outlook India, EET India, Weather Channel, Express Computer, Newsgram ...

IISER Pune and Prashanti Cancer Care Mission are part of the Centre for Translational Cancer Research which would be sequencing the genomes of 1,200 individuals from four Maharashtrian communities in an effort to document the genetic diversity in Indian populations. Indian Express reported. October...

On the biomechanics of the somersault movement in Hydra In a recent paper published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, the research groups led by Prof. Sanjeev Galande from the Biology department and Dr. Shivprasad Patil and Dr. Apratim Chatterji from the Physics department at IISER Pu...

In a paper published in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine, in collaboration with the BJ Medical College and Sassoon General Hospitals in Pune, researchers from IISER Pune report that by accurately measuring the ability to smell, one could detect an asymptomatic COVID-19 infection caused by SARS-CoV-2...

Dr. Nixon Abraham and his team found that by accurately measuring the ability to smell, one could detect an asymptomatic COVID-19 infection caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus. The research was published in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine. Pune Mirror, The Print, EET India reported. October 17, 2020 ...

Fourteen BS-MS students of IISER Pune have developed a diagnostic kit for malaria as a part of their entry in the international Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) contest which is held in the USA every year. eSakal Pune, Sakal, and Pune Mirror reported their achievements. October 10, 2020 ...

The Science Activity Centre at IISER Pune, in association with Maharashtra State Council of Education Research and Training (MSCERT) Pune, has initiated a series of online workshops in Marathi for school science and mathematics teachers. Ten episodes on various science and mathematics concepts wil...

Dr. Neelesh Dahanukar was a part of the team involved in the discovery of an unusual family of bony fish found in Western Ghats. Hindustan Times, Indian Express, Times of India I, II, The Tribune reported. October 4, 2020. ...

Science Activity Centre at IISER Pune, in association with Maharashtra State Council of Education Research and Training (MSCERT) Pune, has initiated a series of online workshops in Marathi for school teachers. The series inauguration was covered by Maharashtra Times, Sakal, Times of India. October ...

In a paper that addresses the increasing levels of water pollution, Prof. Sujit Ghosh’s group has developed a  hybrid material that can purify water by removing a wide range of toxic ions from water. “Inorganic oxoanions, classified among the primary substances present in polluted water, en...

Science Activity Centre is collaborating with IIT Gandhinagar and the Central Board of School Education (CBSE) to bring forth 30-30 STEM, a series of thirty online workshops for school students and teachers on experiential learning of science. India Education Diary, Indian Express, Campus Varta rep...

Work done by Prof Sutirth Dey during his PhD at JNCASR with Dr. Amitabh Joshi's group was featured in the book Conceptual Breakthroughs in Evolutionary Ecology by Laurence Mueller that traces the history of evolutionary ecology in its 65 chapters. Udaipur Kiran and India Education Diary reported th...

IISER Pune was ranked among the top Indian institutes by the Times Higher Education world university rankings. Mint, Money Control reported. September 4, 2020. ...

Dr. Umakant Rapol and team have joined hands with counterparts in Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune to build India's first two optical atomic clocks. The Wire reported. September 1, 2020. ...

Like tagging your grey suitcase with a bright ribbon helps you spot it from among tens of others, tagging molecules with fluorescent probes gives certain functionalities to the molecules we try to study. We can now see where they reside in a cell, when they traverse, which other molecules they mee...

ICICI Lombard has come forward to fund the procurement of an RT-PCR machine for IISER Pune. It has contributed ₹20 lakh as part of the initiative. IISER Pune’s testing capacity is about 250 at the moment. This support would help with the aim to increase the testing capacity. ICICI Lombard&rsqu...

Dr. Nagaraj Balasubramanian and his team's recently published work on the protein fibulin, which interacts with EGFR cellular receptors in cancer cells, was reported by Sakal. August 25, 2020. ...

Dr. Devapriya Chattopadhyay's career story was published by SheThePeople, an online magazine that highlights the achievements of women in various fields. August 25, 2020. ...

Adding to our understanding of molecular interactions in cancer is a recent paper from Dr. Nagaraj Balasubramanian’s group at IISER Pune. Here, the team showed that Fibulin-1 protein from the extracellular matrix can interact with and regulate the activity of the epidermal growth factor receptor (...