A part of the Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, the Cytomotors Lab is led by Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan. The interest of the lab lies in the study of the cytoskeleton and associated proteins during various cellular processes, using a combination of high time-resolution live cell microscopy and general cell and molecular biology
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Dr. Naren Ramanan graduated with a Ph.D. in molecular microbiology from the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), National University of Singapore. He then joined the laboratory of Prof. David Ginty as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, USA. After completing
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I have been identifying shear zones (natural deformation features) in the Deccan Trap basaltic rocks on beaches in and around Kashid. These shear zones provide additional evidence of Madagascar and Seychelles islands separating from India 65 million years ago or still before.
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Bhagyashri is working with a team of pHD scholars under the guidance of Dr. Ramanan to clone sets of four sgRNAs into single lentiviral vectors utilizing Golden Gate assembly. Using multiplex CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, these clones would be further used to create transgenic knockout mice, since the sgRNAs are specifically designed to complement genes that
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Vimal, a medical student from the University of Wisconsin Madison who majored in Molecular and Cellular Biology is going to Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital in Daryaganj, Delhi to work with Sunita Arora. Vimal is going to too evaluate the impact of COP program on ophthalmic service delivery at SCEH and on quality of life of COP Graduates
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Michael from the Biology Department of University of Wisconsin Madison, is going to the Institute of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology to work with Dr. Ashwini Godbole. Michael is going to be working on neurological research with a hope that he might be able to gain some insight and experience into Ayurvedic medicine, for which India has
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“I will be working under Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan on a project focusing on the role of a microtubule-mitochondria system in symmetric cell division. Research will center specifically on how a fused mitochondrial network affects the cell’s ability to accurately position the nucleus during fission.” Elsa’s internship is located at Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.
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Worked with Sharmila Bapat, the goals of her summer internship were to determine which E-box TCF21 preferentially binds to in the promoter region of Slug and OVOL2, as well as expand on previous research which has shown that preferred order of binding to E-boxes in vitro studies does not necessarily predict in situ behaviour.
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Callie worked with Prof. Amit Singh in the Centre for Infectious Disease and Research (CIDR), at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
Read MoreCongratulations to all of our 2018 Khorana Scholars! Abhinanda Kar from University of Hyderabad Telangana Abhishek Deshmukh from Sinhgad Institute Savitribai Phule Pune University Abhishek P from Amity University, Noida Adarsha D P from University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore Aditya Ananthanarayanan Iyer from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Aimen Akbar from Abdur Rahman University, Chennai,
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