Postdoctoral fellow
Ria Ghosh
Lipid asymmetry during myoblast fusion.
ria.ghosh1995[at]gmail.com
People
The lab, then and now
Current members and the many students and fellows who have passed through the Cell Biophysics Lab.
Principal Investigator
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Bidisha Sinha
Interested in membrane homeostasis. Experimental cell biophysicist working on how plasma-membrane mechanics controls cellular function.
Integrated PhD, NCBS Bangalore · Postdoc, Institut Curie, Paris · at IISER Kolkata since 2011 · Wellcome Trust–DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellow (2013–2019) · Ramanujan Fellow (2012)
bidisha.sinha[at]iiserkol.ac.in · Google Scholar
Lab members
IPhD scholar (2020)
Alekhya Hati
Mechanical heterogeneities in collective cell migration.
rkh20ip002[at]iiserkol.ac.in
PhD scholar
Jibitesh Das
Role of membrane tension in TNFR1 clustering and signalling.
jd21rs066[at]iiserkol.ac.in
IPhD scholar (2020)
Upasana Mukhopadhyay
Mechanical determinants of cell–cell fusion and fusion in endomembranes.
um20ip010[at]iiserkol.ac.in
PhD scholar (2024)
Purnashree Kar
Mechanics-based crosstalk between endocytic pathways.
pk23rs083[at]iiserkol.ac.in
IPhD scholar, DPS (2021)
Husain T N
Mechanical memory in cells using a fluorescence lifetime-based membrane tension reporter.
htn21ip030[at]iiserkol.ac.in
PhD scholar (2026)
Shilajit Khan
Origin and impact of 3-D organisation of single-cell membrane mechanics.
sk25rs088[at]iiserkol.ac.in
PhD scholar (2026)
Shrijeet Kolley
The biphasic mechanical impact of Myomerger during myoblast fusion.
sk26rs040[at]iiserkol.ac.in
BS-MS thesis
Adrika Chaudhuri
Role of Piezo in myoblast fusion.
ac22ms044[at]iiserkol.ac.in
BS-MS thesis
Trisha Ghosh
Functional implications of caveolae flattening in cells.
tg22ms162[at]iiserkol.ac.in
Alumni
Where our people went
Postdoctoral fellow
- Subhendu Kumar Chatterjee (Dec 2021 – 2023)
PhD — graduated 2026
- Ananya Biswas
- Tanmoy Ghosh — Postdoctoral fellow, Rutgers University
PhD — graduated 2024
- Tithi Mandal — Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Geneva
PhD — graduated 2023
- Suvam Mukherjee
- Madhura Chakraborty — Aragen Life Sciences
PhD — graduated 2021
- Rinku Kumar — Postdoctoral fellow, Leibniz Institute for New Materials
PhD — graduated 2020
- Arikta Biswas — Postdoctoral fellow, MBI, NUS
IISER Kolkata Master's · 2025–26
- Arkadeep De — PhD scholar, IISER Pune
- Shirude Tanvi Prashant — PhD scholar, Kyoto University, Japan
- Kaustav Pal — JRF, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
2024–25
- Anandita Gope
- Diana Denzil Fernandez — PhD scholar, Israel
- Rohan Roy — PhD scholar, IIT Hyderabad
2023–24
- Nimmana Uday Kiran
- Deepak Verma — PhD scholar, IISER Bhopal
- Animesh Sinha — TCS
2022–23
- Mohamad Shameem — Project Fellow, IIT Bombay
2021–22
- Aritra Ghosh — PhD, Ohio State University
- Nanditha N — PhD, Ohio State University
2020–21
- Amrutamaya Behera — PhD, IMSc Chennai
2019–20
- Athil Altaf — PhD, Bielefeld University
- Jeebak Deoghuria — PhD, Forschungszentrum Jülich & Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Lakshmi K (joint with Ayan Banerjee's lab) — PhD, University of Vienna
2018–19
- Baishali Mukherjee — PhD, McGill University
- Shruti Kulkarni — PhD, University of Bremen
- Ahmmad Shibil — TeOra
2016–17
- Tanurjyoti Bala
- Vikas Prasad
- Athul MS — University of Münster, CiM-IMPRS Fellow, Institute of Cell Dynamics and Imaging
- Debanjana Maji — Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University (PhD: University of Rochester)
2015–16
- Madhura Dattagupta
- Purba Kashyap — PhD, Freie Universität Berlin
- Amal Alex — PhD, MPI of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund
- Swagata Dey — PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science
2014–15
- Jasmine Russel — PhD, CSIR NIIST
- Kishan — Entrepreneur, Neurobit
- Sanchari Dutta — PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center
2013–14
- Anilisa Biswas — PhD, Iowa State University
- Titas Sengupta — Princeton University; Simons Foundation Fellows-to-Faculty Award 2026
- Sandip Maji
Summer & longer interns
- Sharmistha Ghatak — Summer 2023 (MSc Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, University of Kalyani)
- K. Hradini — Summer 2019 (NISER Bhubaneswar)
- Yojet Sharma — Summer 2016
- Bidesh Chatterjee — 2015–16 (DBT-RISE Summer Fellow; now graduate student, OIST Japan)
- Aparajita Das — Summer 2015 (MSc, St. Xavier's College Kolkata, 2016)