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2025

• Prof. Gupta was invited to deliver a talk on the dual between host and pathogen through the lens of Copper Metabolism Pathway at the International Conference on Recent Advances in Medical Science and Technology (RAdMed 2025) organised by IIT Karagpur.
• We are delighted to share that Prof. Arnab Gupta, has been elected as a Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology (WAST).We congratulate him on this well-deserved recognition and wishing him continued success in his academic and professional endeavors.
• It's great to inform that Raviranjan's work on Therapeutic Aspects of Melatonin has been shortlisted for oral talk for Young Investigator Award at the International Conference on Redox Biology and its Implications in Health and Diseases, (ICRB-IHD), at CSIR-IICB, Kolkata.
• The latest finding from our group uncovers the differential endocytic routes of Copper Transporter 1 & specific responses in copper homeostasis proteins upon Cisplatin treatment. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.03.686439
• The Scientist, a science magazine, featured the findings of Dr. Kaustav Chakraborty, a Post Doctoral fellow from our lab. A huge Congratulations for the achievement!
• We are delighted to inform Ravi @Raviranjan89788 from our lab, presented his poster on the 'Therapeutic role of Melatonin' at the Cell Biology of Metals GRC 2025, held at University of Southern Maine Portland, USA. His expenditures were funded by ANRFIndia and IISER Kolkata.
• A huge congratulations to Tisha, a BS-MS graduate from our lab, on being selected for the prestigious 2025 Quad Fellowship. We are incredibly proud of her accomplishments and wish her continued success in reaching even greater milestones.
• A heartfelt congratulations to our 4 BS-MS studunts Tisha Dash, Borkar Aditya Ashok, Avijit Majumder, Baivab Kumar Saha and 1 iPhD student Sharanya Bhattacharya on their graduations. Wishing them a great success ahead.
• Check out our latest pre-print about the "Non-canonical regulation of the plasma membrane copper transporter CTR1 through modulation of membrane mechanical properties". DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.28.645880
• Raviranjan Pandey, a final year graduate student from our lab, was invited to deliver a talk on his ongoing work "Melatonin: a promising candidate for the management of Wilson Disease" at the DBS seminar series organised by IISER Kolkata
• Tisha Dash, elucidated her work on the non-canonical regulation of CTR1 through modulation of membrane mechanical properties at the Learning Bridges: Algorithms and Experiments in Biophysics (AlEx) 2025, organised by Gangeya, the student chapter of Eastern India.
• Sharon Mary Jose, a final year PhD student from our lab, was invited to deliver a talk on her ongoing work "Evolutionary divergence of copper ATPase domains sheds light on trafficking regulation of human homologs ATP7A/7B" at the DBS seminar series organized by IISER K
• Tisha Dash, a final year BS MS student from our lab, presented her poster at the 43rd Mahabaleshwar Seminar on Molecules, Membranes & Organelles, organized by TIFR Mumbai.
• Raviranjan Pandey, a final year graduate student from our lab delivered a talk on his ongoing work about "Melatonin for Wilson Disease treatment" at EASTERN-ZONE ACBI CONFERENCE Molecular & Cellular Basis of Bio-Medicine: Basic Insight for Translation.
• We are happy to announce that Brindaban Maji from our lab was selected for a flash talk and poster presentation at the M2T2 2025 conference held at IIT Jodhpur. We congratulate him for receiving the poster award for the scientific poster session.
• Swastika Dey, a graduate student from our lab presented a poster at the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO'25) Satellite Meeting and Hands-on Workshop on Infection Biology: from microbes to host interface, held at IISER Tirupati
• Tisha Dash & Avijit Majumder, 5th year BS MS students from our lab, presented their posters at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research in Biosciences organized by IISER Tirupati. Tisha was also selected to deliver a student talk.
• Tisha Dash, 5th year BS MS student & Swastika Dey, 2nd year graduate student, from our lab, presented their work at the National Symposium organised by Presidency University, IHS-PU. Congrats to Tisha for securing 1st position for her poster.

2024

• Check out our latest publication in Commun Biol, Where Rupam has explored the alteration in copper homeostasis pathway during Host-Leishmania Interaction. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06716-2.
• Raviranjan Pandey, A senior research fellow of our lab attended and presented his work at the Copper 2024 conference at Sorrento, Italy.
• Mrittika Paul and Debosmita Bhattacharya have joined our lab as a PhD students. Welcome!
• Our lab proudly celebrates the graduation of five exceptional students Dr Sumanta, Dr Ruturaj, Dr Saptarshi, Dr Rupam, Arpan at the 11^th convocation of IISER Kolkata (June 20).
• Sharon Mary Jose, A senior reasearch fellow of our lab, has been selected for the HHMI-Janelia Conference on Tissue Polarity 2024.
• Congratulations, Dr Rupam Paul, on completing your PhD (May 22).
• Arpan, a final year BS-MS student from our lab, has successfully defended his master's thesis.
• Arnab elucidated several enigmatic aspects of Copper Transporter 1 during his virtual seminar at The Society of Biological Chemists (SBC), Kolkata Chapter, India (May 17).
• Our postdoc alumni, Dr Asmita Pal, secured a postdoctoral position at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), USA.
• Saptarshi has successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Saptarshi Maji ! (May 9).
• Raviranjan from our lab delivered a special lecture on his current research through the IISER Ambassador Programme at North Bengal St, Xavier's College (April 4).
• Bratati Dutta, as a PhD and Sharanya Bhattacharya, as an iPhD have joined our lab. Welcome!
• Saptarshi was invited as a guest speaker to enlighten young minds on his research topic at Amity University, Kolkata.
• 'First Person interview' of Ruturaj with J_Cell_Science. Congratulations on this outstanding achievement!
• Congratulations, Dr. Ruturaj on successful completion of your PhD.
• Arnab delivered a talk on the future prospect of Cuprotherapy in combating Leishmaniasis at Asia Pacific Health Network, Johns Hopkins, USA (Feb 15).
• Aayatti Mallick Gupta has joined our lab as a postdoctoral fellow. She got a SERB NPDF fellowship.
• Siddanta V. Nikte has joined our lab as a postdoctoral fellow under DBT RA-I.

2023

• Saptarshi from our lab presented his work at the Cellbio2023 meeting (Dec 2-6) in Boston, MA, USA. He received the SERB international travel grant to attend the conference.
• Please check out our latest publication in @J_Cell_Sci, where Ruturaj deciphers the function of Adapter proteins in cargo sorting and polarized trafficking in MDCK using Cu-ATPase ATP7A & ATP7B (Nov 30). https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.261258
• Our recent publication in Traffic Journal by Saptarshi, where we discovered a novel organelle contact site between TGN-lysosome and showed its importance in ligand (Cu) independent trafficking of WD protein ATP7B (Nov 17). https://doi.org/10.1111/tra.12919
• Saptarshi, from our lab has won the 'Camilo Golgi best poster award' at the OBMT2023 conference held in NBRC (Oct 11).
• Arnab presented a talk on regulatory mechanism of CTR1 (Copper transporter 1) at OMBT2023 conference held in DBT_NBRC.
• Ruturaj, from our lab, gave a talk on his work in SBC-2023 held in NIBMG, Kalyani.
• Adrija Chakraborty, a final Year BS-MS student from our lab, has joined as a PhD fellow at Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM), Viena, Austria.
• Rupam from our lab, presented his new findings about copper homeostasis in host-Leishmania interaction at GRS Cell Biology of Metals, Vermont, USA (Jul 30 to Aug 4). He received a Carl Storm Fellowship and SERB International Travel Grant for attending the conference.
• Brindaban Maji and Swastika Dey have joined our lab as PhD scholars (Jul 28).
• Adrija Chakraborty and Monalisa Mishra, two final year BS-MS students, graduated from our lab. all the best for their future (Jun 30).
• Delighted to share that our lab has been selected for the STARS (Scheme for Transformational and Advanced Research in Sciences) grant by the Education Ministry of India (May 11).
• Congratulations, Sumanta got an offer later to join Prof. Thomas Jentsch's group as a postdoctoral fellow at Max Delbruck Center in Berlin, Germany (May 9).
• Celebrating Sixth year of successful journey of our lab (Apr 6).

2022

• Santanu, our 1st PhD Scholar, has defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations! (Sept 2).
• Celebrating Fifth year of successful journey of our lab (Apr 6).