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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Tithi Mandal
PhD scholar: Aug 2018. Works on: Spatial regulation of endocytosis by membrane tension
tm18rs012[at]iiserkol.ac.in

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@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


POST-DOCTORAL Fellow
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Subhendu Kumar Chatterjee
Postdoctoral Fellow: December 2021.
Co-mentor: Dr. Arnab Gupta
Works on: Role of tension in copper homeostasis
subhendu.pdf[at]iiserkol.ac.in


MASTER Students
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Animesh Sanjay Sinha
MS student
Joined lab: June 2023
Works on: Using deep learning to predict cell fate and classify spatial molecular clustering and dynamics
ass19ms069 [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Deepak Verma
Works on: Role of cortical actin in Caveolin dynamics.
dv18ms113 [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Nimmana Uday Kiran
Works on: Role of actin in TNFR1 clustering and signalling
nuk19ms058 [at] iiserkol.ac.in


ALUMNI


PhD Students
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
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 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)