29/November/2023: Dileep’s NIPGR visit! Dileep visited DBT-NIPGR, New Delhi, and gave an invited talk on the topic: Safari pentapus: A structure-function journey with plant nucleoplasmins.
22/November/2023 to 24/November/2023: DVasuLab representation at the 50th National Seminar on Crystallography (NSC50) held at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh! Dileep and members of the team from the ILS side (Nausad, Dharma, Ketul, Surajit & Archana) attended NSC50. Dileep & Nausad gave talks. The other four had poster presentations, and Ketul got the best poster award, too. Further, the team had a brief trip to Amritsar and returned via Delhi.
23/October/2023: Dusshera / Navratri Greetings everyone!
06/October/2023: DVasuLab members hit the Kegs & Barrels Bhubaneswar! To bid farewell to Vicky and to celebrate Ketul’s thesis submission, we had a good time at Kegs & Barrels Bhubaneswar. Vicky had 30th September as his last working day with us. He is poised for competitive exam preparations and wants a break.
06/October/2023: Ktul submits his PhD thesis! Today Ketul’s thesis, which has been ready for submission for a while, got submitted officially. Congratulations Ketul! This is the 7th PhD thesis getting submitted from our group.
30/September/2023: Archana @ ESRF! Archana has reached ESRF for our SAXS data collection. Too many samples and just two hands! She is going to have a gala time working at the SAXS Beamline.
05/September/2023: Manas’ paper got accepted in IJBM. A part of Manas’ PhD thesis has gotten accepted for publication in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. Congratulations to all involved in this manuscript.
30/August/2023: Rakshabandhan Greetings from DVasuLab!
29/August/2023: Happy Onam, folks! Here is our pookkalam with our lab’s very own protein structures.
16/June/2023: Dileep joined RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram! Today, Dileep took up the position of Scientist-F at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram. This site will now have updates of DVasuLab from RGCB and ILS both.
15/June/2023: DVasuLab at ILS becomes DVasuLess! Dileep was relieved from ILS after about 10.5 years of service as a Scientist! He has moved on while holding a 2-year lien on his position at ILS.
02/June/2023: Rajiv came to visit us! Our alumnus Rajivgandhi, who is currently at Johns Hopkins, was in Bhubaneswar and visited us. He sponsored a pizza party for us at Pizza Hut. It was great to catch up with him. Later in the day, to celebrate his visit, we gathered at Ketul’s abode for a home-cooked dinner.
30/May/2023: Ruchir’s wedding! The whole lab went to Nagpur to attend Ruchir’s wedding with Suchismita. We had a gala time traveling together, going on tiger safaris, and attending the wedding ceremonies.
20/May/2023: Lab party at BBI, Patia! Everyone wanted to have a party and we had it at BBI, Patia! We did enjoy!
19/May/2023: Ketul’s Pre-Thesis Synopsis Presentation! Ketul gave his pre-thesis synopsis presentation and the advisory committee members gave their nod for him to go ahead with his PhD thesis submission. This brings him one step closer to his PhD completion. Congratulations Ketul!
16/May/2023: Photoshoot for ILS Annual Report! It’s time for Official Group Photos. 🙂
15/May/2023: Archana is back from ESRF! Archana went for crystal data collection at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France at the ID30A-3 (MASSIF-3) beamline. She started from Bhubaneswar on 9th May and reached back in lab on 15th May. She managed to test all our crystals and collected plenty of complete datasets, that would result in a good few new structures for the group. And she came back with lots of chocolates!
08/May/2023: Welcome Moushmi! Moushmi Tandi, a second year BS-MS student from IISER Bhopal has joined us as a summer intern for a month. Happy learning Moushmi!
19/April/2023: Adiós Ruchir! Having completed his Ph.D., we bid good bye to Ruchir. Adiós Ruchir, till we meet again.
15/April/2023: Graduation celebration @Puri! To celebrate Ruchir’s graduation, the whole group went to Wonder World Water Park. We had a gala time in the water park and the evening was well spent at Puri beach. We had a grand dinner at Holiday Resort, Puri. The group returned to Bhubaneswar the next morning.
12/April/2023: Ruchir’s Ph.D. viva voce! Ruchir had his viva voce, wherein he successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. He had Prof. Rajakumara Eerappa from IIT Hyderabad as his viva voce examiner. Congratulations Dr. Ruchir C. Bobde! We are so happy for you!
24/February/2023: Invited lecture at RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram! Dileep gave a lecture at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram. The title of his lecture was ‘A structural journey with nucleoplasmins’.
23/February/2023: Invited lecture @ KUFOS, Cochin! Dileep gave an talk on the topic of protein crystallography at his alma mater campus, currently the Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS), Cochin
22/February/2023: GNR Centenary Symposium for Structural Biology at CUSAT! Dileep attended the two-day symposium (21st and 22nd Feb 2023) held in Cochin University of Science And Technology (CUSAT) and gave an invited talk on the 22nd.
22/February/2023: Welcome, Purushottam! Mr. Purushottam Patnaik joins us as the In-Charge of our in-house AUC facility! Happy times, Purushottam!
17/February/2023: Welcome, Vicky! Mr. Vicky Kumar joins us as the In-Charge of our in-house XRD facility! Enjoy your time with us, Vicky!
15/February/2023: Welcome, Bimal & Sonali! DVasuLab welcomes the new Ph.D. students Mr. Bimal Jana & Ms. Sonali Ghosal! We wish them a happy stay with the group. We had a little pizza party to welcome the newbies. 🙂
13/February/2023 to 14/February/2023: CEMBIOS Symposium at NISER! The whole of DVasuLab was at NISER for two days, attending the Symposium on Cryo-Electron Microscopy in Biological Systems (CEMBIOS). Dileep gave a presentation on the first cryo-EM structure from the group. For this structure, thanks are due to Ketul, his EMBO SEG Fellowship to work in NTU, Singapore, and the untiring support from Sandip Basak’s Lab at SBS-NTU, primarily from Nikhil Bharambe and Sandip.
23/January/2023 to 27/January 2023: SAXSy time for Surajit at ESRF! Surajit is at ESRF (Grenoble, France) for our synchrotron SAXS experiments. We expect him to collect tons of data!
10/January/2023: Happy Birthday, Surajit! Lab celebrations were followed by a dinner at ‘Hungry Tummy’ near Nalco Square!
06/January/2023: Birthday Greetings, Dharma! We had the birthday celebrated with a lovely lunch sponsored by him at Malva Restaurant in Patia, Bhubaneswar.
02/January/2023: Movie Mania in DVasuLab! In search of our own avatars, the group landed at the Cinepolis in Esplanade Mall, Bhubaneswar, to watch Avatar 2.0 (Avatar: The Way of Water). We had an awesome time together, taking up one row of seats in the movie hall. 🙂
01/January/2023: Dinner by Swabhiman! Our celebrations started for the New Year! Swabhiman, who recently moved out from our group upon receiving a State Government job, was back in Bhubaneswar and took us for dinner at Lal Qila Restaurant in Patia, Bhubaneswar.
01/January/2023: Our New Year resolution is to party harder when it still permits and make it big and better in our science!
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