Current and past members:
PI
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Bidisha Sinha
bidisha.sinha[at]iiserkol.ac.in
Interested in Membrane Homeostasis. Google scholar link.
GRADUATE Students
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Ananya Biswas
PhD scholar: Jan 2020. Works on: Role of ezrin in cellular mechano-protection.
ananya22biswas[at]gmail.com
Tanmoy Ghosh
PhD scholar: Jan 2021. Works on: Active regulation of membrane mechanics by cytoskeleton attachments and caveolae.
ghoshtanmoy841[at]gmail.com
Alekhya Hati
IPhD scholar (2020): Joined lab: August 21.
Co-PI: Dr. Dipjyoti Das
Works on: Study of mechanical heterogeneities in collective cell migration
rkh20ip002 [at] iiserkol.ac.in
Jibitesh Das
PhD scholar: August 2021.
Works on: Role of membrane tension in TNFR1 clustering and signalling
jd21rs066[at]iiserkol.ac.in
Upasana Mukhopadhyay
IPhD scholar (2020): Joined lab: August 21.
Works on: Understanding mechanical determinants of cell-cell fusion and fusion in endomembranes
um20ip010[at]iiserkol.ac.in
Purnashree Kar
PhD scholar (2024): Joined lab: January 24.
Works on: Understanding mechanics-based crosstalk between endocytic pathways
pk23rs083[at]iiserkol.ac.in
Husain T N
IPhD scholar in DPS (2021): Joined lab: March 24.
Masters Lab: Prof. Bhavtosh Bansal, DPS, IISER Kolkata [Kinetic roughening of bubble raft periphery]
Now works on: Study of mechanical memory in cells using fluorescence lifetime-based membrane tension reporter
htn21ip030 [at]iiserkol.ac.in
MASTER Students
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Rohan Roy
Joined lab: June 2024
Works on: Local effects of caveolae disassembly on clathrin coated pits
rr20ms110 [at] iiserkol.ac.in
Diana Denzil
Works on: Dynamics and trafficking of TNFR1 membrane clusters.
ddf20ms211 [at] iiserkol.ac.in
Anandita Gope
Works on: Role of ezrin in lysosome fusion
ag20ms213 [at] iiserkol.ac.in
4th year BSMS Students
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Kautav Pal
Works on: Deciphering clustering strategies of TNFR1
kp21ms152 [at] iiserkol.ac.in
Post-dosctoral Fellow
Subhendu Kumar Chatterjee (Dec 2021- 2023)
PhD Students
Graduated in 2024
Tithi Mandal [ Currently at : Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Geneva]
Graduated in 2023
Suvam Mukherjee
Graduated in 2023
Madhura Chakraborty [ Currently at : Postdoctoral fellow, UCL Institute of Neurology, London ]
Graduated in 2020
Arikta Biswas [ Currently at : Postdoctoral fellow, MBI, NUS ]
Graduated in 2021
Rinku Kumar [ Currently at: Postdoctoral fellow, Leibniz Institute for New Materials ]
IISER Kolkata Master Students
2023-24
Nimmana Uday Kiran
Deepak Verma
Animesh Sinha (Now at: TCS)
2022-23
Mohamad Shameem (Now at: Project Fellow, IIT Bombay, India)
2021-22
Aritra Ghosh (Now at: Ph D Programme, Ohio State University)
Nanditha N (Now at: Ph D Programme, Ohio State University )
2020-21
Amrutamaya Behera (Now at: Ph D Programme, IMSc, Chennai, India)
2019-20
Athil Altaf (Now at: Ph D Programme, Bielefeld University)
Jeebak Deoghuria (Now at: Ph D Programme, Forschungszentrum Jülich & Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Lakshmi. K (common Masters student with Ayan Banerjee's Lab) (Now at: Ph D Programme, University of Vienna, Austria)
2018-19
Baishali Mukherjee (Now at: Ph D Programme, McGill University, Canada)
Shruti Kulkarni (Now at: Ph D Programme,University of Bremen, Germany)
Ahmmad Shibil (Now at: TeOra)
2016-17
Tanurjyoti Bala
Vikas Prasad
Athul MS (Now at: University of Muenster, CiM-IMPRS Fellow, Institute of Cell Dynamics and Imaging)
Debanjana Maji (Now: Post doctoral Associate, Yale University; PhD: University of Rochester)
2015-16
Madhura Dattagupta
Purba Kashyap (Now at: Ph D Programme, Freie University, Berlin)
Amal Alex (Now at: Ph D Programme, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund)
Swagata Dey (Now at: Ph D Programme, Weizmann Institute of Science)
2014-15
Jasmine Russel (Now at: Ph D Programme, CSIR NIIST)
Kishan (Now as: Entrepreneur, Neurobit)
Sanchari Dutta (Now at: Ph D Programme, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
2013-14
Anilisa Biswas (Now at: Ph D Programme, Iowa State University)
Titas Sengupta (Now at: Ph D Programme, Graduate School in Biology and Biomedical Science at Yale University )
Sandip Maji
Summer & Longer Interns
Summer 2023
Sharmistha Ghatak (Master’s in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Kalyani)
Summer 2015
Aparajita Das (MSc., St. Xavier's College Kolkata, 2016)
2015-16
Bidesh Chatterjee (DBT-RISE Summer Fellow; Now : Graduate student at OIST, Japan)
Summer 2016
Yojet Sharma
Summer 2019
K. Hradini (NISER, Bhubhaneshwar)
