{"id":103,"date":"2021-06-09T02:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T20:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:39:16","slug":"members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/members\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h3>Principal Investigator<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/shamik2.jpg\" alt=\"shamik2\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"600\" width=\"600\" title=\"shamik2\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\n<p>Dr. Sen joined IIT Bombay in July 2010 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering. Dr. Sen earned a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering (1999) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and an M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering (2002) from IIT Kanpur. He then moved on to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2007) in the lab of Prof. Dennis Discher. During his Ph.D., he and his co-workers demonstrated for the first time the broad influence of stiffness or rigidity on muscle and stem cell differentiation. Before joining IIT Bombay, he completed postdoctoral training at the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, Berkeley, in the lab of Prof. Sanjay Kumar. There, he focused on understanding the contributions of the actin crosslinking protein, a-actinin, to the motility and invasiveness of brain tumor cells.<\/p>\n\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Lab Members<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Post- Docs<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/plugins\/beaver-builder-lite-version\/img\/pixel.png\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_20260123_184525.jpg.jpeg\" alt=\"Oplus_131104\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1831\" width=\"1138\" title=\"Oplus_131104\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\n<p>PhD, Tissue Engineering, SASTRA Deemed University, Tamil Nadu, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Date of Joining: January, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Project Area: Microfluidic Device Modelling for Breast Cancer Metastasis<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1000\" width=\"753\" title=\"image\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\n<p>PhD, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Date of Joining: February, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Project Area: Computational and mathematical modelling of cancer biology, Heat Transfer and fluid mechanics simulation, CFD<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG20240220181913.jpg\" alt=\"oplus_48\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1097\" width=\"977\" title=\"oplus_48\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\n<p>PhD, CSIR-IHBT, Palampur, 2022<\/p>\nDate of Joining:\u00a0 October, 2023\nProject area: Exosome-based diagnostic platform for the detection and monitoring of TNBC treatment, and elucidating the role of exosomes in cancer-associated fibroblast differentiation.\n\n<hr \/>\n<h4>PhDs<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot_20210722-053400-3-edited.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot_20210722-053400-3\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"553\" width=\"553\" title=\"Screenshot_20210722-053400-3\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\n<p>M.Tech.(2018) in Chemical Engineering<\/p>\n<p>Indian Institute of Technology Madras<\/p>\n<p>Joined: January 2019<\/p>\n<p>Project area: Tissue adhesives for wound healing<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Yash_Deshpande.jpg\" alt=\"Yash_Deshpande\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"600\" width=\"600\" title=\"Yash_Deshpande\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\n<p>M. Sc. (2019) in Biotechnology<\/p>\n<p>Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi<\/p>\n<p>Joined: January 2020<\/p>\n<p>Project area: Cancer glycobiology &amp; tumor microenvironment<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Swetlana1.jpg\" alt=\"Swetlana1\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"453\" width=\"354\" title=\"Swetlana1\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<strong>Swetlana Ghosh<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<p>M. Sc. (2021) in Biochemistry &amp; Molecular Biology<\/p>\n<p>Pondicherry University, Pondicherry<\/p>\n<p>Joined: January 2022<\/p>\n<p>Project area: MMP9\/CD44 crosstalk in cancer invasion<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220518-WA0001-1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20220518-WA0001\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"783\" width=\"775\" title=\"IMG-20220518-WA0001\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<strong>Sumon Saha<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<p>M. Sc. (2019) in Zoology<\/p>\n<p>University of Calcutta, Kolkata<\/p>\n<p>Joined: January 2022<\/p>\n<p>Project area: MMP mediated differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in cancer &amp; their roles in cancer metastasis<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_2023-03-05-18-45-50-28_99c04817c0de5652397fc8b56c3b3817-1.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot_2023-03-05-18-45-50-28_99c04817c0de5652397fc8b56c3b3817\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1057\" width=\"1080\" title=\"Screenshot_2023-03-05-18-45-50-28_99c04817c0de5652397fc8b56c3b3817\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\n<p>M. Sc. (2022) in Biotechnology<\/p>\n<p>Banaras Hindu University<\/p>\n<p>Joined: January 2023<\/p>\n<p>Project area: Role of Amyloid-Collagen interaction in Diabetes Mellitus<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20220704_180004.jpg\" alt=\"20220704_180004\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1300\" width=\"1080\" title=\"20220704_180004\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\n<p>M.Tech (2023) in Biotechnology<\/p>\n<p>MNNIT-Allahabad<\/p>\n<p>Joined: July 2023<\/p>\n<p>Project area: Localization-dependent proteolytic and\u00a0non-proteolytic function of MMPs in Cancer<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_20221225_203208-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20221225_203208 (1)\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"2560\" width=\"1920\" title=\"IMG_20221225_203208 (1)\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\n<p>M.Tech (2023) in Biomedical Engineering<\/p>\n<p>NIT Rourkela<\/p>\n<p>Joined: July 2023<\/p>\n<p>Project area: Computational modelling of tumor heterogeneity<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ff-2.jpg\" alt=\"Ff (2)\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"2055\" width=\"1980\" title=\"Ff (2)\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\nM.Sc. in Microbiology (2022)\nGujarat University &#8211; Ahmedabad\nJoined: July 2024\nProject area: Understanding tumor heterogeneity using spatial transcriptomics\n<hr \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG-20241215-WA0089.jpg-2.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG-20241215-WA0089.jpg\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"840\" width=\"960\" title=\"IMG-20241215-WA0089.jpg\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\nMsc in medical biotechnology (2023)\nPGIMER-Chandigarh\nJoined- July 2025\nProject area: Development of immune protective beta cell encapsulation strategy for type 1 diabetes therapy.\n\n<h4>Master Students<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/pic_uncropped.jpg.jpeg\" alt=\"pic_uncropped.jpg\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1200\" width=\"1600\" title=\"pic_uncropped.jpg\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\n<p>B.Tech in Biotechnology<\/p>\n<p>Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala<\/p>\n<p>Joined: June 2025<\/p>\n<p>Project area: Computational Modelling of Cancer Invasion<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260101_215724.jpg-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"20260101_215724.jpg\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"2560\" width=\"1920\" title=\"20260101_215724.jpg\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\n<p>B.Sc in Zoology<\/p>\n<p>Jagiroad College, Gauhati University, Assam<\/p>\n<p>Joined: July 2025<\/p>\n<p>Project area: MMPs in chromatin remodeling: computation and experiment<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal Investigator Dr. Sen joined IIT Bombay in July 2010 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering. Dr. Sen earned a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering (1999) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and an M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering (2002) from IIT Kanpur. He then moved on to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":75,"href":"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~shamik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}