PhD Students (current)

  • Sangram J Kadam : Studying chromatin organization and dynamics. BS/MS in Physics from IISER Bhopal.
  • Vinoth M : Studying chromatin organization and dynamics. Undergraduate training (B Tech) as a Mechanical Engineer.
  • Shuvadip Dutta: Studying Physics of chromatin. MSc Physics from IIT Madras (Guided jointly with Dr. Mithun Mitra, Physics, IITB)
  • Adwaith PP: Studying 3D organization of chromatin. Joined the lab after completing BS/MS from NISER Bhubaneswar
  • Sai Samarpita, Studying nucleosome positioning and models for chromatin. Joined the lab after completing UG in Electrial Engineering
  • Siddharth Pankar, Studying self-assembly of biomolecules. Joined the lab after completing UG in Civil Engineering

PhD Students (completed)

  • Ishutesh Jain:  PhD (2016). Moved to Institut Curie, Paris, France as a post-doctoral fellow. During PhD, Ishutesh developed models to understand microtubule dynamics.
  • Jyotsana Parmar: PhD (2016). Moved to Instut Pasteur, Paris, France as a post-doctoral fellow. During PhD, Jyotsana predicted how different factors would influence the nucleosome kinetics near transcription start sites.
  • Hungyo Kharerin: PhD (2017). Moved to Pennsylvania State University, USA as a post-doctoral fellow. Hungyo studied gene regulation and presented models for nucleosome kinetics in the PHO5 promoters, and Gal3 protein conformations regulating GAL switch
  • Deepak Hansda: PhD (2017), Moved to SASTRA University. Deepak worked on actin assembly. Deepak investigated kinetics of actin growth
  • Srivastav Ranganathan, PhD (2018), Moved to Harvard University, USA as a post-doctoral fellow. Srivastav studied self-assembly and aggregation of proteins. He proposed a minimal model that can reproduce diverse set of self-assemblies
  • Gaurav Bajpai, PhD (2018) Moved to Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel as a post-doctoral fellow. Gaurav’s work proposed a plausible explanation for the absence of 30nm chromatin structure in vivo. He showed that DNA-bending proteins can make 30nm chromatin fibre unstable and generate irregular structures.
  • Aparna J PhD(2019) Moved to Institut Curie Paris as post-doctoral fellow. Aparna examined microtubule kinetics.
  • Kiran Kumari : (2021) Moved to University of Texas at Austin as a post-doctoral fellow. During PhD, Kiran developed an inverse method to compute 3D organization of chromatin. Studied dynamics of chromatin domains.
  • Rakesh K  (2023) Moved to the University of Pennsylvania as a post-doctoral fellow. Rakesh’s Ph.D. work investigated the role of weak non-specific interactions for protein self-assembly and the formation of condensates.
  • Jennifer Joseph (2023) For her Ph.D., Jennifer studied the self-assembly of proteins and the breakage-dependent growth of protein fibers.

Former Post-doctoral Fellows

  • Dr. Shantanu Kadam, National Post-doctoral Fellow (PhD, NCL, Pune). Shantanu investigated models of Insulin signalling kinetics; he also investigated nucleosome kinetics in histone modification spreading.
  • Dr. Nithya Ramakrishnan, Institute Post-doctoral Fellow (PhD, IIT Delhi) Nithya studied an information theoretic model to understand inheritance of histone modifications.

M Sc/M Tech/MS/B Tech (PG/UG) Students

  • Tanya Kaur (2023)
  • Shreya Bari (2022)
  • Anirudh Jairam (2022)
  • Ravi Kishan (2021)
  • Ritika Aggarwal (2021)
  • Ashish Kumar Choudhary (2020)
  • Subham Midya (MSc 2019)
  • Keerthy SSL (M Tech 2019)
  • Pratik R Moon (MTech, 2018)
  • Shounak Bhogale (BTech, 2017), Grad student in University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign [2017]
  • HAS Kishore (M Sc, 2017), PhD student in IISc Bangalore.
  • Anirudh Krishnan (BTech/MTech Dual Degree, 2016), Grad student in Princeton University [2016]
  • Amrit Bagchi (M Tech 2016),  Grad student in Washington University St. Louis [2016]
  • Piyush Sharma (M Tech 2016), Working in Industry.
  • Anamika Agrawal (B Tech 2016),  Grad student in University of California San Diego [2016]
  • Shruti Chowdhury (M Sc. 2014),
  • Kalpesh Dalvi (M Sc. 2014)
  • Rajat Sharma (M Sc. 2013)
  • Dalin EM (M Tech 2012)
  • Agrita Dubey (M Sc. 2012) PhD, IISc Bangalore
  • Bhagwan Das Dhaked (M Sc. 2011)