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...

Prof. K. N. Ganesh, Director, IISER Pune has been chosen for the H. K. Firodia Vijnan Bhushan Award for Excellence in Science & Technology for the year 2015. The award is given in the memory of late Mr. H. K. Firodia to eminent Indian scientists for their original and outstanding contributions to a...

Bacteria are known to thrive in an incredibly wide variety of habitats and conditions ranging from the human gut to hot springs. Scientists are trying to understand how bacteria manage to learn to survive in various conditions and thus to learn about the process of evolution itself. For this, resear...

As a new means to harness light energy, Dr. Musthafa’s research group at IISER Pune has developed a battery that can produce power from a light source. This development could potentially allow solar energy to be stored directly in a battery along with paving way to generate a sustainable photo batte...

The group of five IISERs has been ranked fourth in India in a list of top scientific institutions published by the prestigious Nature Index1. They have also made it to the top fifty institutes in the Asia Pacific region2. The nine-year-old IISERs are next only to the veterans of Indian science such ...

In-house summer school hosted by IISER Pune; June 09, 2015. The Times of India reported on the Summer School programme “Joy of Learning”, conducted by IISER Pune for students of Class IX-XII. ...

Genesis: [caption id="attachment_447" align="alignright" width="300"] The enthusiastic group of students at the Summer School[/caption] In response to the demand from enthusiastic students and eager parents, IISER Pune hosted its first in-house Summer School for students of grades IX to XII fr...

87 students from the 2010 batch graduate from IISER Pune; May 29, 2015. IISER Pune's fourth Covocation Ceremony was covered by The Times of India. ...