Alumni

 Grad Students

Reshma Talreja is a Biochemistry major from MS University, Baroda. She joined the lab in 2008 but owing to personal reasons had to move on in 2011 without completing her degree. Currently she is with a Communications group in  Mumbai. 

Shraddha Karve is a Microbiology major from Garware College, Pune. She joined the lab in 2010 and was awarded her PhD in 2016. After a brief stint in the lab as a post-doc, she moved to University of Zurich for another post-doc stint. Personal Webpage 

Sudipta Tung is a BS-MS student from IISER Kolkata. He joined the lab in 2012 and was awarded his PhD in 2018. He is currently a DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Early Career Fellow at Ashoka University, India. Personal Website.

Abhishek Mishra is an IISER Pune BS-MS alumnus who joined the lab as a PhD student in 2015. He obtained his PhD in 2020 and is currently a post-doc at The University of Wisconsin Madison. Personal Website.

Yashraj Chavhan joined the lab as an undergrad in 2010 and then as a PhD student in 2013. He finished his PhD in 2019, but stayed on for a Post-Doc for two more years till 2021. After a post doc at Umeå University (Sweden), he is currently an Assistant Professor at IISER Thiruvananthapuram. Website.

Selveshwari S did her Masters from Anna University (Chennai), majoring in Biotechnology. She joined the lab as a PhD student in 2015 and obtained her PhD in 2022.

Vibishan B joined the lab as a PhD student in 2019 and graduated in 2024. Currently he is a Post Doc at IISc, Bengaluru.

Research Associates

Pranav Mishra, Santosh Sathe

Senior Teaching Associates

Anuja Salgaonkar, Vishwadeep Kapare

Master's Dissertation Students

Subhajit Das, Satvika Kumbhare, Kanishka Tiwary, Pratha Sah, Sachit Daniel, Somendra Singh Kharola, Abhishek Mishra, S Selveshwari, Sharmilee Sarkar, Agrim Saini, Naven V, PM Shreenidhi, Mohammad Aamir Sadiq, VR Shree Sruti, Shraddha Lall, Sarthak Malusare, Sayed Imran, Aarcha Thadi, Rishabh Bagawade, Kasturi Lele, Akhila Mudunuri, Harshavardhan B.V., Subhashree Subhadarshini, Sayantan Datta, Satavisha De, Krishna Chaitanya Sattaru, Viraj Gaonkar (MIT-Wp University), Gayatri Bichukale (Fergusson Collge), Samruddhi Kadam (Fergusson College), Adyansha Singh (Modern College, Shivajinagar)

Research Assistants

Ashish Wani, Gururaj Shivange, Chandrakant Redican, Joseph Paul Salve, Arun Neru, Cecily George, Dhanashri Nevgi, Devika Bhave, Sripad Joshi, Shankar Kisan Bhujbal, Atreyee Ghosh, Nitu Saha, Kaustubh Khaire, Partha Pratim Chakraborty, Radha Barve, Sandesh Papade, Pranjali Singh, Rakesh M.

Short term project students (semester / summer)

Abhilesh Dhawanjewar, Abhishek Anand, Abu Bakr, Aditee Kadam, Aditya Singh Bagri, Aditya Pujari, Adithya Rajagopalan, Anup Savle, Apar Prasad, Aparna Sundaresan, Arpit Yati, Arsh Shaikh, Avirup Sanyal, Ayush Shekhar Saxena, Ayushi Agarwal, Basabi Bagchi, Bedarth Goswami, Bibyia Verghese, Debanjana Kundu, Devashish Singh, Digvijoy Gogoi, Gaury Parvathy, Gayathri K, Girish Ravindra Kale, Jai Shivam Pathak, Karan Sharma, Kiran R., Krishna Sriram, Kumar Pratyush, Kunal Mozumdar, Madhesvaran, Madhur Mangalam, Manaswini Kar, Minhaz Ahmed, Naven Venkat, Neha M, Nilima Walunjkar, Nishad Mandlik, Pranav Unnikrishnan, Prashastha Mishra, Puneet Deraje, Rahul Iyer, Rajaditya Das, Ron Sunny, Ruchira Basu, S. Santosh, Sachita Nishal, Sahana Srivathsa, Sahil Pawar, Saismit Naik, Saumil Shah, Sayali Chavan, Sayali Shevate, Sayyad Irfan Ali, Sharvani Shintre, Shreya Gupta, Shrinidhi Mahishi, Steny Simon, Tejeswita Khanna, Tenzin Norzin, Tushar Shrotriya, Urmi Poddar, Varun M., Vijay Krisnan, Vineet Pandya, Vishnu V Krishnan, Yagyik Goswami, Arkadeep Mandal, Ritavash Debnath, Shreya Mehra, Krishna Menon, Srivathsa Kurpad, Avani Kajarekar, Dhanush SS, Tenzin Dhasel, Passang Penpa, Ruchitha BG, Sultan Nazir, Shikhara Bhat, Suryadeepto Nag, Raghav Sharma, Vasudha Kulkarni, John Thampi, Vidisha Hate, Swastik Padhi, Akilan R, Kaustubh Kulkarni, Ruchitha BG, Yangchen Lhamo, Joanrose JK, Shashwati H, Ayush Valecha, KM Hareendran