Cipla Foundation-IISER Pune Centre for Chemistry Education and Research on the IISER Pune campus has been inaugurated today by Dr. Yusuf K. Hamied, Non-Executive Chairman, Cipla Ltd. He was accompanied by Mrs. Farida Hamied and Ms. Rumana Hamied, the Managing Trustee of Cipla Foundation. The Centre, housing chemistry research labs along with an in-class demo …
Through a generous endowment from Bajaj Auto Ltd., a hostel for women research scholars at IISER Pune was announced in 2017. The construction of this multi-storied building has now been completed and has been opened to research scholars. The inauguration ceremony of this Hall of Residence was held today (on January 11, 2020) at the …
Honourable Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi visited IISER Pune and met with some of the faculty members and students in a brief but highly interactive gathering. IISER Pune Director Prof Jayant Udgaonkar presented an overview of the institute profile outining the institute’s objectives, achievements, and aspirations. He also spoke about the importance of …
Antarctica, with an annual average temperature anywhere between minus ten to minus sixty, is one of the most inhospitable places on the Earth. However, this was not the case forty million years ago; a mild climate had prevailed there. Towards the end of the Late Eocene, approximately 33.7 million years ago, temperatures plunged rapidly, allowing …
Watching Viswanathan Anand taking time to make his move when he plays against Magnus Carlsen reminds us about the famous theory of speed-accuracy trade-off. This idea has been challenged and debated in the field of olfaction research – forming two schools of thought, one supporting a causal link between the accuracy and speed of decision-making …
IISER Pune faculty member Dr R Vaidhyanathan’s work has been granted a US patent for the preparation of a covalent organic framework (COF) that can serve as an electrocatalyst to split water. Hydrogen and oxygen, the constitutent molecules of water, thus released, have vital industrial applications. Hydrogen can potentially be used as an alternative to the …
Self assembly of proteins into superstructures is of interest considering its implications in variety of applications such as gene delivery, vaccine design and diagnostics. Genetic engineering involving computational methods and rational design strategies have been employed to design protein superstructures with high accuracy. However, most of the reported protein superstructure lack dynamic behavior which is …
Grand Finale of Hardware Edition of the third Smart India Hackathon was inaugurated today. IISER Pune along with NCL, Pune among the nineteen centers all over India where the Finale of this national competition is being simultaneously held. Human Resource Minister Hon. Shri. Ramesh Pokhriyal inaugurated the Finale via Video Conference. Shri. Seetharamakrishna, (Director, Intel) …
On any given day you get to work, park your vehicle, meet a colleague, surprise an old friend or taste vada pav for the first time. Only some of these experiences will become memories that will last a lifetime. This information is stored as changes in a part of the brain called the hippocampus. Specifically, …
The Manav Human Atlas project, a collaboration between IISER Pune, Persistent Systems, and the National Centre for Cell Science, was launched on May 10, 2019 by the DBT Secretary Dr. Renu Swarup. Funded by the Department of Biotechnology, this project aims to construct a comprehensive map of the entire human body which will explicitly document …
Dr Siddhesh Kamat, Assistant Professor in Biology at IISER Pune and Wellcome-DBT IA Fellow, has been selected for the UAA-ICT Distinguished Alumnus Award in the Young Achiever category for the year 2019. Instituted by the UDCT Alumni Association (UAA), this award recognises alumni of the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) achieving significant milestones at a young age. …
IISER Pune has been ranked 23 in the overall category of the 2019 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) India Rankings. Initiated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2015, this is the fourth year of NIRF’s India Rankings. NIRF uses 5 parameters to rank institutions across India. These include Teaching, Learning and Resources, …
Dr. Siddhesh Kamat (Assistant Professor in Biology at IISER Pune) has received this year’s Merck Young Scientist Award. This award recognises excellence in research among scientists with less than 10 years of post-PhD experience and considers applications from all research/academic institutions across India. The accolade is comprised of a cash prize and a travel award. Dr. Kamat … Continue reading
Dr Saikrishnan Kayarat, Associate Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has won Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India’s S. Ramachandran National Bioscience Award for Career Development for the year 2019. The award is given each year by the DBT to scientists below 45 years of age engaged in research on basic or applied biological … Continue reading
Dr. Siddhesh Kamat, Assistant Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been selected as an ‘European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)’s Young Investigator for four years starting January 2020. He is one of 27 life scientists from across the globe chosen for this award. EMBO is an organization that promotes excellence in life sciences by supporting … Continue reading
IISER Pune has been ranked twentieth in a list of top Young Universities in the world published by the prestigious Nature Index. The Index classifies institutions younger than fifty years in this category. Of the ten Indian institutes which have made it to the top 100 Young Universities list, IISER Pune is second after Homi … Continue reading
Dr. Sujit K. Ghosh and Dr. Angshuman Nag have both been chosen to receive the Materials Research Society of India (MRSI)’s Medals for 2020. The Medals will be presented during the Annual General Meeting of MRSI to be held in Kolkata during February 2020. As recipients of this medal, the awardees will be delivering an invited lecture … Continue reading
Dr Saikrishnan Kayarat, Associate Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been selected for CSIR’s Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in the area of Biological Sciences for the year 2019. Dr Kayarat is one of the two winners of the Prize this year in the Biological Sciences discipline. A total of 12 scientists and technologists have … Continue reading
The Pune Biotech Cluster, a joint initiative between the National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS) and IISER Pune set up with funding from the Department of Biotechnology has been inaugurated at the NCCS today by Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India. The project has been formulated with the goal of seamlessly … Continue reading
Dr. S. G. Srivatsan (Associate Professor, Chemistry) has been chosen to receive the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI)’s Bronze Medal for 2020. The CRSI, a premier professional chemical society of India, was established in 1999 with an objective to facilitate and promote research & education in all branches of chemistry. The Society organises symposia, … Continue reading
Prof. Sanjeev Galande (Professor, Biology and Dean, Research & Development) is one of the awardees of the prestigious J. C. Bose National Fellowship for 2019. The fellowship is awarded by the Department of Science and Technology’s (DST) Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) to selected, active scientists in all areas of science for their outstanding … Continue reading
Prof. LS Shashidhara has been elected as President of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS). The announcement was made at General Assembly of the Union which took place this week at Oslo, Norway where the new Executive Council of the Union was chosen. His term will be for the next three years. IUBS, established … Continue reading
Dr. Siddhesh Kamat, Assistant Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been awarded the ‘Young Scientist Medal’ of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi for 2019. INSA is a body of Indian scientists founded in 1935 for promotion of scientific knowledge in the country. One of their activities is to encourage and motivate … Continue reading
Three IISER Pune students are among those selected for the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF). The list of selected students has been announced recently and is available at this link. The PMRF scheme is aimed at attracting the talent pool of the country to PhD programmes of Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Indian Institutes of Science … Continue reading
Dr. Thomas Pucadyil runs the Reconstitution Biology lab in IISER Pune. His research is based on a novel approach to address questions in membrane biology that he pioneered during his postdoctoral work. His techniques have found great success, as evidenced by the many accolades he has received, the most recent of which is the Shanti … Continue reading
Typically, the number of individuals in a population is a good estimate of whether or not bacteria can evolve under certain conditions. Larger populations carry more biological variation and adapt faster to new environments. This primarily happens as at least some of the population may cope with the sudden changes in the environment. However, this … Continue reading
Prof. Shyam Rai has been selected to receive the Professor Naha Memorial Medal for 2019 by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi. The Medal was established in 1996 from an endowment by the family members of Professor Naha to commemorate the memory of late Professor Kshitindramohan Naha, an eminent geologist and a distinguished INSA … Continue reading
In Which I Talk (Really, Really Quickly) About Life By Bruhad Dave It’s the stuff of existential nightmares. Why is this stuff happening in my life? What is happening in my life? What exactly is life in the first place? That last one is among the first questions that a basic biology textbook would ask … Continue reading
Dr. Shouvik Datta (Physics) and Dr. Pinaki Talukdar (Chemistry) have been selected for the Distinguished Investigator Award (DIA) given by Department of Science and Technology (DST)’s Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB). This one-time career award recognises Principal Investigators of SERB projects that have performed well. Scientists whose completed SERB/DST projects in the previous financial … Continue reading
Dr. Arvind Natu has been nominated to be the Chairperson of the Board of Governors of IISER Kolkata; the nomination was made by the President of India in his capacity as the Visitor for IISER Kolkata, and the appointment is for a period of three years. As the apex decision-making body appointed by the Government … Continue reading
Two IISER Pune members, Dr. Ulfat Baig and Dr. Gunjan Verma, have been selected for 2018 AWSAR Awards given by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. “Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR)” is a DST initiative with an aim to disseminate Indian research stories in an easy to understand and … Continue reading
National Science Day is celebrated in India every year on February 28, to mark the discovery of Raman Effect by Sir. C. V. Raman. It is a day to inspire students to learn scientific ideas and to spread scientific temper in society. On the occasion of National Science Day 2019, Smt. Indrani Balan Science Activity … Continue reading
IISER Pune is now a member of the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium). This places IISER Pune in the league of 20 of the major mouse genetics centres worldwide and adds tremendous value to IISER Pune’s research capabilities. IMPC was set up about 10 years back to build on the efforts of the International Knock-out … Continue reading
Prof. Satish Ogale has been awarded the Raja Ramanna Fellowship of the DAE for Senior Scientists. Prof. Ogale works in the area of clean energy. Instituted in 2000, this fellowship from the Department of Atomic Energy engages with scientists and technologists involved in developing critical technologies and pursuing high quality research. As a Raja Ramanna … Continue reading
In a new partnership that was formalised on November 19, 2018, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune and Tata Technologies will come together to train school teachers towards improving the quality of science and mathematics education in schools, with a key focus on children from lower income groups. Under this partnership, teachers … Continue reading
In a collaborative effort from research groups at IISER Pune (R. Vaidhyanathan, Partha Hazra) and IIT Bombay (Dinesh Kabra), a covalent organic framework (COF) material has been synthesized, which can be used for the coating of white-Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) as an alternative for commercially used metallic white-phosphors. Depending on the concentration of this COF … Continue reading
IISER Pune-IDeaS Scholarship awardees for Fall 2018 are now announced. The selected students include 10 BS MS students, 4 Integrated PhD students, and 5 PhD students. Congratulations to all the awardees! The selection was based on grades during the first two semesters at IISER Pune and the award will offer a full tuition waiver for … Continue reading
Abhijit Gupta and Shubham Singh, both from IISER Pune, have won the first prize at the ‘Python Innovation Day Hackathon’. Kicked off in June 2018 and the first of its kind in India, the online Python Hack fury (Hackathon) was organized by Intel, IISER Pune and Amazon Web services with an aim to motivate and … Continue reading
Three IISER Pune members have been selected as Fulbright-Nehru Fellows for the year 2018-19. Congratulations to all three! Mr. Prabhat Prakash, a PhD student with Dr. Arun Venkatnathan has been selected for a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship. Using modeling and simulations, his work explores material properties required for efficient energy conversion. Prabhat will be working … Continue reading
PhD student Swapna Joshi has just completed a short project as a Sahapedia-UNESCO Fellow on pyaavs (drinking water fountains) of Mumbai. Swapna’s study traces the history of pyaavs from their inception in colonial Bombay to the recent efforts to restore and conserve the pyaavs. Swapna documented her observations through articles, interviews, photo essay and a … Continue reading
IISER Pune has received an endowment fund of Rs. 5.0 lakhs from Integrated Decisions and Systems (India) Private Limited (IDeaS), an information technology company at Cyber City, Pune. The fund has been given under their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Programme and will be used to give scholarships to meritorious IISER Pune students who have achieved … Continue reading
The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has announced election of 62 life scientists from across 24 countries to its membership. Prof. L.S. Shashidhara of IISER Pune has been elected an EMBO Associate Member, making him the third scientist from India to join a group of about 1800 researchers from Europe and around the world. EMBO members are … Continue reading
Dr Mousomi Bhakta, Assistant Professor in Mathematics at IISER Pune, has won the ‘Young Scientist Medal’ of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi. The INSA, a body of Indian scientists created in 1935 for promotion of scientific knowledge in the country, awards the Young Scientist Medal each year. It is a prestigious and … Continue reading
Dr Sujit Ghosh, Associate Professor in Chemistry at IISER Pune, has won the AVRA Young Scientist Award for 2017. The award, constituted by the A V Rama Rao Research Foundation, promotes and encourages excellence in science & technology and comes with a cash prize and memento. The parent concern of the Foundation is a Hyderabad-based … Continue reading
One of the main improvements required in the field of Lithium ion batteries is to make them safer, more compact and more stable. However, the current generation batteries are made with flammable organic medium which could result in explosion and fire, and damage the battery compartment. Additionally battery function could be affected at extreme temperatures. … Continue reading
Xytel India Private Limited has given a one-time endowment of Rupees Thirty lakh ten thousand to IISER Pune, to be used for giving awards to the best PhD and Masters theses every year. Xytel India, a premier project and process engineering organisation, has given this endowment under the aegis of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) … Continue reading
Dr Pinaki Talukdar, Associate Professor in Chemistry at IISER Pune, has won the ‘National Bioscience Award’ given by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India. The award consists of a cash prize, citation and a research contingency grant for a period of three years. It is given by the DBT in recognition of outstanding contributions … Continue reading
IISER Pune and Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a dual degree programme (DDP) in Solid Earth Science for students pursuing BS-MS at IISER Pune. This will be a part of the IPGP Master of Research programme. One to two students admitted per year … Continue reading
Dr G V Pavan Kumar’s group at IISER Pune, in collaboration with researchers at Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, USA, have experimentally shown for the first time, that Raman and fluorescence components of scattered light behave differently when confined to a plasmonic nano-cavity. This is a compact and cost-effective system that will enable … Continue reading
