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Our Team
Gayathri Pananghat
Principal Investigator
Biology, IISER Pune
Associate Professor 2021 - Present
Assistant Professor 2016 - 2021
INSPIRE Faculty 2013 - 2018
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Postdoctoral Fellow,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK 2009 - 2013
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Visiting Faculty, IISER, Pune, India 2008
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PhD, Molecular Biophysics Unit,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 2002 - 2007
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Integrated MSc. (Hons) Chemistry & Biological Sciences,
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan 1997 -2002
Current Members
Apurba Das
Ph.D. Student
Soumyajit Dutta
Ph.D. Student
Puja Kumari
Ph.D. Student
Rinku Yadav
Ph.D. Student
Nandini Majumdar
Ph.D. Student
Nikhil Saripalli
Ph.D. Student
Saurabh Batwal
Ph.D. Student
Sivang Goswami
Ph.D. Student
Vidhyashree
MS Thesis Student
Tiyasa Bain
MS Thesis Student
Suyog Zinjurte
Project Assistant
Namita Menon
Project Assistant
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Hari Sunder
MS Thesis Student
Nandagopal
MS Thesis Student
Alumni: Post Doctoral Fellows and PhDs
Jyoti Baranwal
PhD 2018
Shrikant Harne
PhD 2019
Jaya Sharma
Post Doctoral Fellow
2019 - 2021
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Joyeeta Chakraborty
PhD 2023
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Vani Pande
PhD 2023
Mrinmayee Bapat
PhD 2024
Sukanya Chakraborty
PhD 2024
Alumni: MS Thesis and Project Assistants
Ningthoujam Birjeet Singh
MS Thesis 2016
Mutum Yaikhomba
MS Thesis 2017
Sonal Lagad
MS Thesis 2019
Jazleena P J
MS Thesis 2018
Shekhar Jadhav
MS Thesis 2019
Manil Kanade
MS Thesis 2019
Punam Pawara
MS Thesis 2022
Shefali Sonarkar
MS Thesis 2022
Meenakshi PV
MS Thesis 2022
Aiswarya Ajith B
MS Thesis 2022
Prajakta Umbarkar
MS Thesis 2022
Ranjana Nataraj
MS Thesis 2023
Punam Bala
Project Assistant 2016-2017
Sanket Shelke
Project Assistant 2020 - 2021
Vaishnavi Bahulekar
Project Assistant 2022-2023
Rajnandani Kashyap
Project Assistant 2014-2016
Akhilesh Uthaman
MS Thesis 2023
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Aishwarya Shahare
MS Thesis 2023
Omkar Golatkar
MS Thesis 2024
Priyanka Gade
Project Assistant 2015-2016
Project Trainees
Shruti Das
MSU Baroda; Summer Project 2013
Sanjana Tak
MSU Baroda; Summer Project 2014
Ningthoujam Birjeet Singh
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2014 - 2015
Asmi Jazeera M
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2015
Kavita Koshiya
Saurashtra University, Gujarat; Summer Project 2015
Sonal Lagad
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2015-2016
Bincy
MACFAST Tiruvalla, Project trainee 2016
Shikha Dagar
IISER Pune; Int PhD rotation 2016
Shekhar Jadhav
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2015 - 2018
Sharvani Shintre
IISER Pune; BS-MS student 2018
Suman Pal
IISER Pune; Int PhD rotation 2018
Amora Kailas Tawar
Azim Premji University, Bangalore; Summer Project 2018
Niranjan B
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2019
Durga Venugopal
MACFAST, Tiruvalla; Project trainee 2019
Mitali Sonawane
Garware College, Pune; Project trainee 2020
Vimal Das E S
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2020
Kushan Lahiri
IISER Pune; Int PhD rotation 2020
Manas Mahaveer
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2021
Atharva
IISER Pune; Summer Project 2022
Suyog Zinjurte
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2022
Sukanya
Summer Project 2023
Apurba Naik
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2023
Souptik Mandal
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2023
Vaishnavi Reghunath
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2023
Vidhyashree
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2024
Karthika Jadhav IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2024
Abrar Bhat
Summer Project 2024
Hima S IISER Pune; BS-MS Summer Project 2024
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Prerna Gupta IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2025
Kaustubh
MSU Baroda; Summer Project 2013
Sukriti Kapoor
Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi; Summer Project 2014
Varun Prasad
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2014
Swarang Pundlik
IISER Kolkata; Summer Project 2015
Susovan Sarkar
IISER Pune; Int PhD rotation 2015
Manil Kanade
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2014-2018
Jazleena P J
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2016-2017
Rupali Sathe
IISER Pune; Int PhD rotation
Theja Sajeevan
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2017
Kaustubh Amritkar
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2018
Tushar Damle
Goa University; Summer Project 2018
Sneha Sarkar
IISER Pune; Summer Project 2018
Siddhi Darji
MSU Baroda; Project trainee 2018-2019
Vaishnavi Bahulekar
Modern College, Pune; Project trainee 2019
Rahmathulla M P
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2020
Gayatri Mutum
Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, Project trainee 2020
Misaal Bedi
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2020
Akshata Kotwal
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2021
Maria Sabu
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2022
Asita
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2022
Shankar
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2023
Hari Sunder
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2023
Taku Aammee
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2023
Nandagopal KS
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2024
Tiyasa Bain
IISER Pune; BS-MS project 2024
Sachi Thamke IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2024
Haliya MK IISER Pune; Summer Project 2024
Bhargavi Nimhan
Summer Project 2024
Sudipto Singha IISER Pune; Int PhD rotation 2025
Athira D P
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2013
Smarth Lakhanpal
VIT Vellore; Project trainee, 2014
Saket Bagde
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2014 - 2016
Dhruti Maheswari
MSU Baroda; Summer Project 2015
Mutum Yaikhomba
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2015-2016
Sharvari Tendulkar
IBB Pune; Project trainee 2016
Pratamesh Datar
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2016
Varsha Singh
MSU Baroda; Summer Project 2016
Shephali Dansana
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2018
Kartik Nirbhavane
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project student 2018
Nikita Jena
Fergusson College, Pune; Summer project 2018
Dilsha Farheen P M
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2019
Anjali Achnani
P P Savani University; Project trainee 2018-2019
Satya Santoshi
University of Hyderabad; Summer Project 2019
Sakshi Gadewar
Fergusson College, Pune; Project trainee 2020
Milan Jayswal
MSU Baroda; Project trainee 2020
Mitali Sonawane
Summer project 2021
Amisha Devan
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2022
Sakshi Pagrut
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2022
Vikram Venugopal
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2022
Achyutan
IISER Berhampur, Summer Project 2023
Shravani Nirgude
Summer Project 2023
Ajma
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2023
Prince Sah
IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2024
Varada Kulkarni
Fergusson College Pune, Project Student 2024
Vaishnavi IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2024
Samsur Rahman
Summer Project 2024
Muhsina IISER Pune; BS-MS Project 2025
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