[caption id="attachment_589" align="alignleft" width="300"] Mudumalai Tusker (Photo by Dr. Karpagam Chelliah)[/caption] The Asian elephant joins the ever-growing list of animals with sequenced genomes. Recent analyses throws light on the genetic bases of evolution in these intelligent, social ani...

It is a constant challenge for instructors to develop novel approaches of pedagogy, especially for introductory biology (Bio101) for the first year undergraduate students. Every year about 200 students are admitted into the five-year Integrated B.S/M.S program of IISER, out of which at least 60% of ...

Thomas Pucadyil: Piecing together membrane fission, November 23, 2015. The prestigious Journal of Cell Biology interviewed Dr. Thomas Pucadyil for their feature 'People & Ideas'. ...

As a part of the tenth year celebrations of IISER Pune, four talks were organized and hosted by the institute from 30th October 2015 to 2nd November 2015. The speakers were (in the order of presentation) Professor Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Professor Nayanjot Lahiri, Dr Jonathan Turney, and Professor Mahes...

The plasma membrane encloses and defines a cell, the basic unit that living organisms are made of. To facilitate cellular processes like transport of metabolites or signal transmission, the plasma membrane needs to pinch off parts of itself into the cell (endocytosis). This process of membrane fissi...

India, Nasa to engage students for research, October 19, 2015. The Times of India reported on an educational initiative in which IISER Pune is involved, called 'Spaceward Bound India 2016'. ...

A team of undergraduates from IISER Pune has bagged a Bronze Medal at the international Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) contest held at Boston, USA from September 24-28, 2015. iGEM first started in 2003 as an Independent Activity Period (IAP) project of undergraduates at the Massachusetts ...

Pune Mirror and The Times of India reported Dr. Neelesh Dahanukar and group's work on frog species of Southern India and a fungus that's killing them. September / October, 2015. ...

Like many other life forms, bacteria too are prone to viral infections. Many bacteria harbor restriction endonuclease enzymes, which help check the infection by selectively cutting and destroying the viral genomic DNA. The perpetual tussle between bacteria and viruses to gain an upper hand has resul...

Prof. Raghu Murtugudde's (Visiting faculty, Earth and Climate Science) views on El Nino, Global Warming, and impact on Monsoon were reported by newspapers and websites; August/September, 2015. The Telegraph; Live Science; The Wire ...

Bringing together cellular biophysics, non-linear dynamics, reaction-kinetics and details of experimental molecular biology and genetics, is a field often touted as the next biotechnology revolution, namely synthetic biology. The field is exploding as seen in the number of publications with the term...

Abhinav Parivesh, a Senior Research Fellow at IISER Pune, has won the Elsevier DNA Repair Best Poster award at the Zing Conference on Genomic Integrity that took place at Cairns, Australia this August.  This was the only award at the conference sponsored by the Elsevier journal DNA Repair and it com...

IISER to study solar flares with Glasgow Unive; July 31, 2015. Business Standard  and Pune Mirror reported on Physics faculty Dr. Prasad Subramanian's collaboration with University of Glasgow. ...

Dr. Gyana Ranjan Tripathy, Assistant Professor in Earth and Climate Sciences at IISER Pune, has been selected as a ‘Young Associate’ of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. The Academy, an association of Indian scientists founded in 1934, is engaged in promotion and dissemination of science t...

Aiming high. The news of the Cambridge University's Dr. Manmohan Singh Scholarship to IISER Pune BS-MS student Arya Thampi was covered by The Hindu, The New Indian Express, Manorama ...

“Photon-based optical circuits may lead to greater operational speeds”; July 7, 2015. An interview in Sakal Times of Dr. G.V. Pavan Kumar who recently won the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist award in Physics. ...

Over forty Class X-XII students, majority of them from village and tribal schools, presented their research findings at the third “Discovering Little Scientists” conference held here at IISER Pune from June 29-30, 2015. The meeting was the culmination of a summer vacation research programme for thes...

G.D. Birla award for Sanjeev Galande; July 2, 2015. The news of Dr. Sanjeev Galande’s G. D. Birla Award was covered by various local and national newspapers such as The Hindu; Business Standard; The Economic Times; Pune Mirror; The Times of India, Hindustan Times ...

Prof. Sanjeev Galande has won the prestigious G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research for the year 2014. Instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation, the award is given in recognition of scientific research of high calibre to Indian scientists below the age of 50 years living and working in ...

Dr. G. V. Pavan Kumar, Assistant Professor at IISER Pune, has won the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist award in Physics for 2015. The award was initiated by Scopus™ in 2006 to recognize knowledge and expertise of young Indian researchers. Since 2009, they have partnered with the National Academy of Scie...