Sensing lab news
May 2021
Our work on how planarians can sense light and respond even after eye-brain removal is published in PNAS
This study is highlighted at Nature News - Neuroscience.
July 2020
US patent for smart chemical probes for mitochondria gets issued.
July 2020
Nishan Shettigar successfully defends his PhD thesis.
Jan 2020
Our work on FynSensor gets published in Elife. Article gets highlighted as an eLife digest titled “Finding Fyn”.
December 2019
Our group filed an US patent for smart chemical probes for mitochondria.
Oct 2019
Randhir singh receives EMBL-EMBO corporate award (€-950) to attend the Seeing is Believing meeting, Germany.
Gaurav Singh receives EMBL-EMBO travel award to attend the Seeing is Believing meeting, Germany.
Feb 2019
Nishan Shettigar receives outstanding poster award at EMBO workshop on Molecular Neuroscience.
January 2019
Ananya Mukherjee receives the Carl-Storm International Diversity Travel Award to attend Gordon Research Conference and delivers a talk at the associated Gordon Research Seminar on Directed Cell Migration.
June 2018
Our group filed an Indian Patent for smart chemical probes for mitochondria.
Mar 2018
Nishan Shettigar receives Nature Publishing Group travel award (NPG) and GRC travel award to attend Gordon Research Conference and deliver a talk at Gordon Research Seminar.
Feb 2018
Rimple Dalmeida receives poster award, Annual Review of Research, inStem.
Jan 2018
Nishan Shettigar receives Inspiring Science Award (ISA), Cell Press TNQ - best paper in Life Sciences (India) in 2017-2018.
Dec 2017
Randhir singh receives ASCB-EMBO travel award ($-975) to attend the ASCB-EMBO meeting, USA.
Ananya Mukherjee receives ASCB-EMBO Travel Award and Department of Biotechnology (Government of India)- CTEP Travel Award to attend the ASCB-EMBO meeting hosted at Philadelphia, USA and delivers a microsymposia talk at the meeting.
July 2017
Our work on Planarian light sensing gets published in Science Advances.
This work was covered in leading media and science-writing outlets internationally including The New York Times, The New Scientist, The Atlantic, The Wire, The Hindu, Nature Asia among others.
June 2017
Our work on smart chemical probes for mitochondrial imaging got published in ChemistrySelect from Willey.
May 2017
Nishan Shettigar receives EMBL-ATC Corporate Partnership Programme travel fellowship.
March 2017
Rimple Dalmeida receives CSIR Senior Research Fellowship.
March 2017
Nishan Shettigar receives wadhwani foundation best poster award at instem ARR.
Jan 2017
Sufi Raja receives National Postdoctoral Fellowship from SERB-DST.
March 2016
Ananya Mukherjee receives the Best Poster Award at the 14th Optics Within Life Sciences Meeting held at TIFR Bombay, jointly organized by TIFR-B, IIT-B and Fluorescence Society.
Jan 2016
Nishan Shettigar receives best poster award and Travel fellowship - inStem research review.
July 2015
Randhir Singh receives DBT Research Associate Postdoctoral Fellowship award from Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India.
December 2014
Ananya Mukherjee receives the CSIR-UGC Junior Research Fellowship (for a duration of 5 years).
July 2014
Nishan Shettigar receives CSIR-UGC Junior research fellowship (for a duration of 5 years).
Jan 2014
Nishan Shettigar receives best poster award and travel fellowship-Action with cells, NCBS.
Our work on how planarians can sense light and respond even after eye-brain removal is published in PNAS
This study is highlighted at Nature News - Neuroscience.
July 2020
US patent for smart chemical probes for mitochondria gets issued.
July 2020
Nishan Shettigar successfully defends his PhD thesis.
Jan 2020
Our work on FynSensor gets published in Elife. Article gets highlighted as an eLife digest titled “Finding Fyn”.
December 2019
Our group filed an US patent for smart chemical probes for mitochondria.
Oct 2019
Randhir singh receives EMBL-EMBO corporate award (€-950) to attend the Seeing is Believing meeting, Germany.
Gaurav Singh receives EMBL-EMBO travel award to attend the Seeing is Believing meeting, Germany.
Feb 2019
Nishan Shettigar receives outstanding poster award at EMBO workshop on Molecular Neuroscience.
January 2019
Ananya Mukherjee receives the Carl-Storm International Diversity Travel Award to attend Gordon Research Conference and delivers a talk at the associated Gordon Research Seminar on Directed Cell Migration.
June 2018
Our group filed an Indian Patent for smart chemical probes for mitochondria.
Mar 2018
Nishan Shettigar receives Nature Publishing Group travel award (NPG) and GRC travel award to attend Gordon Research Conference and deliver a talk at Gordon Research Seminar.
Feb 2018
Rimple Dalmeida receives poster award, Annual Review of Research, inStem.
Jan 2018
Nishan Shettigar receives Inspiring Science Award (ISA), Cell Press TNQ - best paper in Life Sciences (India) in 2017-2018.
Dec 2017
Randhir singh receives ASCB-EMBO travel award ($-975) to attend the ASCB-EMBO meeting, USA.
Ananya Mukherjee receives ASCB-EMBO Travel Award and Department of Biotechnology (Government of India)- CTEP Travel Award to attend the ASCB-EMBO meeting hosted at Philadelphia, USA and delivers a microsymposia talk at the meeting.
July 2017
Our work on Planarian light sensing gets published in Science Advances.
This work was covered in leading media and science-writing outlets internationally including The New York Times, The New Scientist, The Atlantic, The Wire, The Hindu, Nature Asia among others.
June 2017
Our work on smart chemical probes for mitochondrial imaging got published in ChemistrySelect from Willey.
May 2017
Nishan Shettigar receives EMBL-ATC Corporate Partnership Programme travel fellowship.
March 2017
Rimple Dalmeida receives CSIR Senior Research Fellowship.
March 2017
Nishan Shettigar receives wadhwani foundation best poster award at instem ARR.
Jan 2017
Sufi Raja receives National Postdoctoral Fellowship from SERB-DST.
March 2016
Ananya Mukherjee receives the Best Poster Award at the 14th Optics Within Life Sciences Meeting held at TIFR Bombay, jointly organized by TIFR-B, IIT-B and Fluorescence Society.
Jan 2016
Nishan Shettigar receives best poster award and Travel fellowship - inStem research review.
July 2015
Randhir Singh receives DBT Research Associate Postdoctoral Fellowship award from Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India.
December 2014
Ananya Mukherjee receives the CSIR-UGC Junior Research Fellowship (for a duration of 5 years).
July 2014
Nishan Shettigar receives CSIR-UGC Junior research fellowship (for a duration of 5 years).
Jan 2014
Nishan Shettigar receives best poster award and travel fellowship-Action with cells, NCBS.