2025
03/2025
An invited co-authored review article, titled Pore Formation by Pore Forming Proteins in Lipid Membranes: Structural Insights Through Cryo-EM gets published in Journal of Membrane Biology. Seventh publication from PhD.
02/2025
Selected for both Flash Talk and Poster Presentation at Horizons in Structural and Computational Biology (HSCB) 2025 organized between 28 Feb-01 March, 2025 at Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IITH).
2024
12/2024
Participated in the Indo-French Biomolecular NMR Winter School 2024 organized between Dec 14-20, 2024 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IITG).
10/2024
PhDone with Thesis Defence!! Thanks to my External examiner, Prof. Ramanathan Natesh, my second thesis reviewer Prof. Samir Maji, & my doctoral advisor Prof. Somnath Dutta.
10/2024
My first invited book chapter and fourth first-author publication from PhD gets published in the book Cryo-Electron Microscopy in Structural Biology (CRC Press).
06/2024
Presented posters at Gordon Research Seminar and Gordon Research Conference on Three-dimensional Electron Microscopy (GRC-3DEM) in Barcelona, Spain (June 2024).
04/2024
Delivered my Thesis Colloquium titled, "Structural characterization of Staphylococcal γ-hemolysin in the presence of a lipid environment using single-particle cryo-EM".
2023
11/2023
My single-author review article on recent trends in cryo-EM studies on neuropathological amyloids was published in Journal of Molecular Biology (JMB).
06/2023
Presented posters at Gordon Research Seminar and Gordon Research Conference on Mechanisms of Membrane Transport (GRC-MMT) in Les Diablerets, Switzerland (June 2023).
04/2023
"Research Spotlight" interview with Biopatrika on published research on Gamma Hemolysin. Read here.
04/2023
My second first-author research article comes out in Structure (CellPress). This publication on Gamma Hemolysin in a lipidic environment was challenging but contributed towards the fulfillment of my PhD as well as the MoE-STARS grant on the project.
2022
11/2022
Delivered an Oral Presentation on my PhD work on Gamma Hemolysin at Nu Biophysical Society Symposium 2022. Also enjoyed co-organizing this symposium second year in a row!
07/2022
My first lead-author research article comes out in Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics (Wiley). This was our Talos Arctica's first-ever collected dataset with a protein called Thermostable Direct Hemolysin, a pore-forming toxin from Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
2021
04/2021
Covered under Research Spotlight by IISc Bengaluru for recent research publication on VCC. Read here.
10/2021
My second co-authored research article comes out in Journal of Cell Biology (Rockefeller Press). This was done in close collaboration again with Nayanika, also during the COVID lockdown period. Learned CryoSPARC through this project!
04/2021
Covered under Research Spotlight by IISc Bengaluru and national newspapers on recent publication on SARS-CoV2 Spike protein. Read here.
04/2021
My first co-authored research paper on SARS-CoV2 Spike protein comes out in Structure (CellPress). This was done in close collaboration with colleagues from the lab- Ishika and Nayanika, during the COVID lockdown period.
2020
12/2020
Awarded Third Prize for Best Oral Presentation for my talk on "Structural characterization of SARS CoV-2 Spike protein" at Nu Biophysical Society Symposium 2020. This work was soon published in Structure.
02/2020
Volunteered for the IISc Open Day 2020 and enjoyed interacting with people belonging to all age groups visiting the campus and learning science. This was right before the COVID outbreak.
02/2020
Volunteered for organizing Cryo-EM National Workshop organized by IISc and NCBS. Guest Speakers included Profs. Ed Morris, Paula da Fonseca, Giorgios Skiniotis, Dan Minor, and Rafa Fernandez-Leiro.
2019
08/2019
Started pursuing PhD along with MS(Research) at Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science. The Department was chaired back then by Late. Prof. N. Srinivasan. I joined Prof. Dutta's lab to learn cryo-EM.
06/2019
I completed my four-year engineering degree (B.Tech) in Biotechnology from D.Y. Patil University, School of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, Navi Mumbai, obtaining First Class with Distinction.
05/2019
Shortlisted in the final merit list for the PhD research program after two rigorous interviews at Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science.
05/2019
I completed my six-months dissertation project at CSIR- CCMB in the lab of Chief Scientist Dr. Kumarasamy Thangaraj under Dr. Sunil Kumar Tripathi.
04/2019
Awarded Department of Biotechnology-Category II Research Fellowship for being in the top 250 students nationwide in Department of Biotechnology (DBT) Biotechnology Entrance Test (BET) held in 2019.
02/2019
Awarded Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering- Junior Research Fellowship (GATE- JRF) for excelling at GATE XL (Life Sciences) postgraduate examination held in February 2019. All India Rank: 385/17986.