2024

01/January/2024: Happy New Year, everyone!

08/January/2024: Welcome Soma! DVasuLab at RGCB welcomes Soma Banerjee, RGCB’s MSc dissertation student! She will work with us for the next six months. Have a great stay with us, Soma!

12/January/2024: Dharma bags DBT-RA Fellowship with our group at RGCB. He will soon move from our laboratory in ILS to RGCB. Welcome to RGCB, Dharma!

12/January/2024: Dileep at KUFOS! Dileep was at KUFOS, Cochin, to attend and give a talk at the International Fisheries Science Congress & Expo 2024. He talked about “Strategies against WSSV: A structural perspective“.

19/January/2024: Mr. Ketul Saharan becomes Dr. Ketul Saharan! Ketul successfully defended his PhD thesis at ILS. Dr. Gayathri Pananghat (IISER Pune) and Dr. Tirumala Kumar Chowdary (NISER Bhubaneswar) were his thesis examiners, and Dr. Chowdary was his viva examiner. Congratulations, Ketul!

06/February/2024: Welcome Neethu! Ms. Neethu M has joined our group at RGCB as a PhD student. Welcome aboard Neethu!

16/February/2024: Dharma joins RGCB as a DBT-RA! All the best for your new start with us, Dharma!

22 February 2024: Our manuscript has been accepted in CRSB! Our small story on the HDAC, HDA7, from Arabidopsis thaliana has been accepted for publication in the journal Current Research in Structural Biology.

01/April/2024: Welcome Raihana! Ms. Raihana A. joins our group at RGCB for her MSc dissertation project! She is an MSc student from Sree Narayana College of Technology, Kollam (under the University of Kerala).

01/May/2024: Welcome Sovon! Sovon Acharya has joined us as a project SRF in our first extramural project at RGCB, funded by SERB.

01/May/2024: Avin joins as an intern! Avin Jose, an MSc Biotechnology student from Loyola College, has joined us as a summer intern. Have a good time with us, Avin!

02/May/2024: Welcome Soumyadipta! Soumyadipta Saha, an MSc Life Science student from IISc, Bangalore, has joined our group as a summer intern with the Indian Academy’s joint Summer Research Fellowship. Have a great learning experience with us, Soumyadipta!

13/May/2024: Welcome, Arya! Arya P. Nair joins us as our Laboratory Technician! Stay with us for a long time, Arya, and enjoy your time with us!

13/May/2024: Dharma gets selected for MK Bhan Fellowship! The day ended with the good news that Dharma has been selected for the prestigious MK Bhan Fellowship from DBT. Congratulations, Dharma! Way to go!!

15/May/2024: Welcome Afthab! Afthab Saleem, a BS-MS student from IISER Pune joins us for his one-year MS project. Have a pleasant stay with us, Afthab!

20/May/2024: Welcome Kaushik! RGCB MSc first-year student Kaushik S. Jith joins our group as a summer intern during his term break. Have a good learning experience, Kaushik.

27/May/2024: Welcome Farheen! Ms. Farheen Khader, a fourth-year BS-MS student from NISER Bhubaneswar, has joined us as a one-month summer intern.

15/July/2024: Welcome Jinan! Ms. Jinan Parvin joins our group as JRF in the DBT-funded project. Have a great learning experience, Jinan!

24/July/2024: Farewell to Soma! Soma completed her MSc dissertation with us and is moving out. RGCB’s official farewell for the outgoing MSc batch was on 27th July!

06/August/2024: Rajiv’s paper goes online! This work from Rajiv’s thesis was long due and has now gone online in Biochimie!

26/November/2024: Welcome Vasu! Vasu Patni joins our group as an intern under the RGCB Certificate Program in Bioinformatics (CPIB). With us, he will work in the area of protein crystallography and structural bioinformatics. Enjoy your time at RGCB, Vasu!

16/December/2024: Welcome Chrislyn! Ms. Chrislyn Thomas from DY Patil University, Mumbai, joins our group for her 6-month BTech (Biotechnology) dissertation. Have a great time with our group, Chrislyn!

23/December/2024: Welcome Adithya! Mr. Adithya R. from St Berchman’s College, Changanacherry, Kottayam (MG University), joins us for a one-month internship. He is a 3rd year BSc (Biotechnology & Botany) student. Enjoy your stay with us, Adithya!

25/December/2024: Merry Christmas!