[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...

A team of IISER Pune students has won a grant of Rs. 10 lakh from DBT for designing and developing a bio-sensor based tool to detect presence of lead in river water. This project will be a part of the international Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition held each year. Indian Express an...

Prof. Jayant Udgaonkar, (Director, IISER Pune) was interviewed on quality of scientific research and education in India and ways of improving it by Hindustan Times. June 21, 2019 ...

Through an industry-academia partnership, IISER Pune would be setting up a Centre of Excellence in Flow Cytometry with support from BD Life Sciences-Biosciences, a segment of Becton, Dickinson and Company. The news was reported by BioSpectrum India and Express Healthcare. June 10, 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...

Pune Mirror reported on Dr. Anand Krishnan and his team's project for understanding roosting patterns and diversity of bats, with an objective to create safe zones for conservation of these creatures. May 20, 2019. ...

CoESME at IISER Pune, through its Science Activity Centre had organised a Pre-workshop for State Teachers' Science Congress in association with Marathi Vidnyan Parishad. Hindustan Times reported. May 14, 2019. ...

Economic Times reported on a new species of snake-head fish discovered in Kerala. Dr. Neelesh Dahanukar was a member of the team involved in this discovery. May 11, 2019. ...

IISER Pune is part of a consortium involved in an ambitious new project called MANAV-Human Atlas launched by Department of Biotechnology (DBT) for mapping the human body using macro- and micro-level information about organs, tissues, cells, etc. Economic Times Tech, Indian Express 1 & Indian Expres...

The Manav Human Atlas project, a collaboration between IISER Pune, Persistent Systems, and the National Centre for Cell Science, was launched on May 10, 2019 by the DBT Secretary Dr. Renu Swarup. Funded by the Department of Biotechnology, this project aims to construct a comprehensive map of the...

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...

Prof. Shyam Rai has been selected to receive the Professor Naha Memorial Medal for 2019 by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi. The Medal was established in 1996 from an endowment by the family members of Professor Naha to commemorate the memory of late Professor Kshitindramohan...

In Which I Talk (Really, Really Quickly) About Life By Bruhad Dave It’s the stuff of existential nightmares. Why is this stuff happening in my life? What is happening in my life? What exactly is life in the first place? That last one is among the first questions that a basic biology textbook wou...

Dr Siddhesh Kamat, Assistant Professor in Biology at IISER Pune and Wellcome-DBT IA Fellow, has been selected for the UAA-ICT Distinguished Alumnus Award in the Young Achiever category for the year 2019. Instituted by the UDCT Alumni Association (UAA), this award recognises alumni of the Institut...

IISER Pune has been ranked 23 in the overall category of the 2019 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) India Rankings. Initiated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2015, this is the fourth year of NIRF's India Rankings.   NIRF uses 5 parameters to rank institutions...

IISER Pune ranked 23rd in the overall institutes category in NIRF 2019 rankings, published in April. Indian Express reported. April 8, 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...

IISER Pune featured in The Indian Wire's list of top institutions in India to study mathematics at the post-graduate level. March 28, 2019. ...

MHRD supported National Resource Centre at IISER Pune produced a MOOC course on Climate Change for undergraduate teachers. The course is a part of series of courses being produced by various MHRD centres as refresher courses for college teachers. Pune Mirror reported. March 25, 2019. ...

Dr. Arvind Natu has been nominated to be the Chairperson of the Board of Governors of IISER Kolkata; the nomination was made by the President of India in his capacity as the Visitor for IISER Kolkata, and the appointment is for a period of three years. As the apex decision-making body appointed b...