Lab News
May 2024: Our review on biomaterial platforms for 3D cell culture and 3D bioprinting was published in Biophysics Reviews and selected as a Featured Article. Read more here.
March 2024: Our lab attended its first in-person APS March Meeting at Minneapolis, USA. Ashitha, Sree, and Tapa gave talks on regulation of growth and morphology under 3D confinement. Sree received the APS-FIP Distinguished Student Program award. Congratulations Sree!
December 2023: Our lab attended CompFlu 2023 at IIT Madras. Thanks to Prof. Bidisha Sinha and Prof. PB Sunil Kumar for the invite. Ashitha, Nandhu and Sree presented their work in the poster sessions, and Tapa delivered a talk on bacterial growth under confinement. Ashitha and Sree won poster awards. Congrats!
January 2024: Ashitha, Nandhu and Sree presented their work in the poster sessions at the NCBS Annual Talks, and Tapa delivered a talk on bacterial growth under confinement. Sree won the poster award in the Biophysics and Biochemistry category. Congrats!
December 2023: Tapa gave an invited talk at 67th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, GITAM University. Thanks Prof. Jitendra Bahadur for hosting.
December 2023: Tapa gave an invited talk at the 2023 ICAM Week of Science, University of California Santa Barbara. Thank you Prof. Cristina Marchetti for hosting.
December 2023: Tapa gave an invited talk at the University of California, Merced. Thanks Prof. Ajay Gopinathan and Prof. Kinjal Dasbiswas for hosting.
August 2023: Tapa gave an invited talk at the Soft Matter Coffee Hour (SMatCH) Seminar at Princeton University. Thank you Prof. Sujit Datta for hosting!!
August 2023: Tapa gave an invited talk at the University of Florida. Thank you Prof. Tommy Angelini for hosting!!
August 2023: Tapa attended the Gordon Soft Matter meeting at NH, where he spoke about the group’s ongoing work on growth and motility under 3D confinement
June 2023 : Tapa presented our work at the Soft Matter Young Investigator Meet 2023, at the Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand.
June 2023 - Sree attended the FEBS Advanced Course on Mechanics in Biology at UGlasgow, for which he received the FEBS-IUBMB Transcontinental Travel Award. Congrats!
June 2023 - June 2023 - Sree got a travel award to attend the AMSCE conference at MPI-PKS Dresden. Congrats!
May 2023: Our first paper from NCBS got published in Biomedical Materials. Read the paper here. Thank you Prof. Ramray Bhat for collaborative support! Congratulation Sree and Meenakshi!
Jan 2023: Our lab was born in the darkness of covid times. This spring brought us the more natural joy of meeting people in person at the NCBS Annual Talks. Our grad students Sree and Ashitha presented posters on their work. Sree got the Promising Starts poster award. Congrats Sree!!
Feb 2023: We were very excited to join the EMBO Symposium on Physics of Cells and Tissues at IISc Bangalore. Tapa gave an invited talk. Thank you, Prof. Ramray Bhat and Dr. Mohit Jolly, for the invitation. Sree received the best poster presentation award. Congrats Sree!
Feb 2023: A bit of a bittersweet moment when we had to say goodbye to Saheli. After working with us as a graduate trainee for the past 1.5 years, Saheli has started her Ph.D. journey with Prof. Sarah Köster. Congratulations Saheli and best of luck!
July 2022: Our first collaborative work from NCBS got accepted for publication in Physical Review E. Read the paper here. It was our first collaborative work with Prof Rajarshi Chakrabarti, IITB. Many more to follow.
July 2022: Kiruthika got a Ph.D. offer from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. She will work with Dr. Aleksandar Antanasijevic. Kiruthika was the first MS student to intern at our lab. We said a bittersweet good bye to her.
June 2022: We had a lot of fun organizing and hosting the Soft Matter Young Investigator Meet, 2022 at Mysore. It was a fun discussion with the Soft Matter community of India.
June 2022: Tapa gave an invited talk at CeNSE DBT Nano-biotechnology Alliance (C-DNA) Conference, IISc. It was a fun discussion with the IISc community. Thank you Prof. Ambarish Ghosh for hosting!
March 2022: We all had fun attending APS March meeting 2022 and APS satellite meeting at ICTS. Saheli gave a talk on our C. elegans works. Talk abstract can be found here.
January 2022: Tapa gave a talk at Annual talks, NCBS.
December 2021: Tapa gave an invited talk at Compflu 2021, IIT Gandhinagar. Thank you Prof. Dhiraj Bhatia for inviting!
November 2021: Tapa gave an invited talk at BPI Minisymposium, IIT Madras. Thank you Prof. Shantanu Pradhan for inviting!
October 2021: Tapa gave an invited talk at MRDG, IISc. It was a fun discussion with the IISc community. Thank you Prof. Ramray Bhat for hosting!
June 2021: Tapa gave an invited talk at the SLAAM seminar series organized by UC Merced. It was a fun discussion with the SLAAM community. Thank you Prof. Ajay Gopinathan and Prof. Kinjal Dasbiswas for hosting!
April 2021: Tapa gave an invited talk at IST Austria. It was a fun discussion.
Thank you Prof. Michael Sixt for being an awesome host!
April 2021: Tapa accepted an offer to join the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru as an Assistant Professor.