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Research Highlights

Human Beta-coronavirus OC43 infection remodels connexin 43-mediated gap junction intercellular communication in vitro.

Souvik Karmakar, Jayasri Das Sarma. 2024. Human coronavirus OC43 infection remodels connexin 43-mediated gap junction intercellular communication in vitro.

Removing heavy metals from next generation organic semiconductor production – solution towards a 118-year-old problem.

Exciting results from this work has been published in the prestigious journal Nature Synthesis: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-024-00590-w

Imaging the Indian Continent beneath Tibet: High resolution regional scale velocity model.

S. Dey, M. Ghosh, S. Mitra (2024) 3D shear wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle beneath India, Himalaya and Tibet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129, e2023JB028292.

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Sediment accumulation in the Himalayan river valley induced by the out-of-sequence expansion of the range-bounding fault.

Vaishanavi Chauhan, Sanjay Kumar Mandal, Dirk Scherler, Manoj Kumar Jaiswal, Marcus Christl, Anil D. Shukla (2024). Prolonged sediment aggradation in an internal Himalayan valley due to out-of-sequence lateral fault growth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 647, 119054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.119054

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Selected Publications of Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Director's Message

Prof. Sunil Kumar Khare Institutes of higher learning and research have a stellar role to play in modern society. They train the next generation of leaders poised to advance the country in science, technology and mathematics. To cultivate a sense of excellence among the students, these institutions must themselves excel in every area where they have a footprint.

The IISER system was created by the then Ministry of Human Resource Development (now Ministry of Education) to achieve excellence in the basic sciences.

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