Members from Prof. Chaitanya Athale’s research group from IISER Pune’s Department of Biology put up a stall at the Indian Science Fest 2025 held from 11-12 Jan 2025 at Fergusson College in Pune. Here, PhD student Tanvi Kale and group leader Chaitanya A. Athale share their excitement abou...

Dr. Krishanpal Karmodiya, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at IISER Pune, is among those selected for the prestigious EMBO Global Investigator Network.  The EMBO Global Investigator Network supports young group leaders in Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan, and, in a pilot project...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at IISER Pune, has been awarded the 2024 Infosys Prize in the Life Sciences category. The announcement was made today by the Infosys Science Foundation at an event in Bengaluru. The award citation to Dr. Kamat reads as follows: The I...

A new industry-academia collaboration initiative, the Centre for Intelligent Solutions, was inaugurated  during the 2024 Industry Conclave event that took place on September 14, 2024. Since the event brought together professionals from the industry and IISER Pune faculty, postdocs, and students...

Dr. Kalika Prasad from the Department of Biology has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). Founded in 1930, NASI is the oldest science academy in India and supports scientific excellence across all disciplines. Election as a Fellow of NASI is a prestigious hono...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at IISER Pune, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K.  A professional body for chemical scientists and one of the oldest chemical societies in the world, the Royal Society of Chemistry supports and ...

Prof. Anjan Banerjee from the Department of Biology and Prof. Pinaki Talukdar from the Department of Chemistry have been elected as Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi. A total of 63 fellows have been newly elected as Fellows this year from across various science instit...

Prof. Jayant B. Udgaonkar from the Department of Biology is among those selected for the Vigyan Shri Award for the year 2024 announced here yesterday. This is part of the new Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar awards initiated by the Government of India to honour exceptional contributions to the fields of sc...

In a recent paper published in the journal ACS Omega, Prof. Sudha Rajamani’s group explored how life may have originated on early Earth by testing if a nucleotide analogue made of barbituric acid could be used to make RNA. What they found prompted them to propose that barbituric acid could hav...

Ignite Life Science Foundation, with support from IndianOil Corporation and Teekays Foundation, funded the acquisition of a multi-mode plate reader to enable high throughput research at IISER Pune.   Multi-mode plate readers are used in various fields such as biochemistry, molecular biolo...

Diplomate degree in the Indian College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (DICLAM) 2023 to Dr. N. Krishnaveni Jayakumar January 5, 2024 Dr. N. Krishnaveni Jayakumar received a Diplomate certification from the Indian College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ICLAM). The certificate was awarded to her d...

Dr. Gayathri Pananghat, Associate Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has won the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India’s S. Ramachandran National Bioscience Award for Career Development for the year 2021.  Dr. Pananghat is among the ten awardees selected for this recogn...

Dr. Mridula Nambiar and Dr. Gayathri Pananghat, from the Biology department, have been awarded DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate and Senior Fellowships, respectively, for the June 2023 round, in the category of Basic Biomedical Research. In this round of selection, a total of five Inter...

Dr. Sagar Pandit, faculty member in the department of Biology at IISER Pune, has been named a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Research Ambassador for a period of three years, from 2022 to 2025. Dr. Sagar Pandit DAAD Research Ambassadors are academicians and scientists...

The "Vigyan Vidushi", resource book published under the aegis of Vigyan Prasar, has acknowledged the scientific contributions of four of our outstanding women faculty colleagues, namely, Dr. Seema Sharma (Physics), Dr. Devapriya Chattopadhyay (Earth and Climate Sciences), Dr. Srabanti Chaudhury (Che...

In a new paper in the journal Current Research in Neurobiology, Dr. Nixon Abraham’s group from the Biology department at IISER Pune reported on persistent olfactory learning deficits during and post-COVID-19 infection. This work was carried out in collaboration with researchers from BJ Governm...

Dr. Kalika Prasad from the Biology Department at IISER Pune has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS), Bengaluru. Dr. Kalika Prasad Founded in 1934, the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru is among the earliest science academies in India. Induction of new...

Dr. Nixon M. Abraham from the Biology Department at IISER Pune has been awarded the Senior Fellowship for Basic Biomedical Research by the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance.   Dr. Nixon M. Abraham DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance (India Alliance) is an independent, dynamic public ch...

Dr. Ramana Athreya, Associate Professor in the Physics and Biology departments at IISER Pune, has received the Wildlife Service Award for the year 2022 from the Sanctuary Nature Foundation.  Being given out annually since 2000, the Sanctuary Wildlife Awards were instituted by Sanctuary Nature ...

Shoot regeneration in plants: how are the cells selected and what governs their journey to become a complete plant Plants have a remarkable ability to rebuild new shoot and root systems, and give rise to fully grown plants from any part when cultured under optimum conditions. This ability has been ...