Aug 18
Simran's paper is online in Nature Cell Biology!
Edge curvature drives endoplasmic reticulum reorganization and dictates epithelial migration mode. Nat Cell Biol (2025)....
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News & Updates
Past Updates
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2025 June: Praver defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations to Dr. Praver Gupta!
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2025 March: Tamal is invited as a speaker for the MBI-MPG Conference 2025: Mechanobiology in Time and Space.
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2025 March: Vignesh joins the CCD lab to pursue his postdoctoral project.
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2025 January: Praver's eLife paper on the study of compressive stress of mutants is now online!
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2025 January: Ashvanth joins the CCD lab to pursue his Integrated MSc-PhD.
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2025 January: Shreejit joins the CCD lab to pursue his PhD.
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2024 August: Shirshadri joins the CCD lab as a JRF.
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2024 April: Praver receives a DMM travel grant from the Company of Biologists to attend ‘EMBL symposia: The Mechanics of Life’ at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.
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2024 April: Pratikshya joins the CCD lab to pursue her PhD.
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2023 October: Shilpa received “TAA – Zita Lobo Memorial Commendation – Best Thesis in Biology (2022-23)“.
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2023 September: Purnati defended her PhD thesis successfully and became Dr. Khuntia. Congratulations!
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2023 September: Simran receives Best poster award at the Mechanobiology Institute conference in NUS, Singapore.
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2023 May: Shilpa became the first person from an Indian institute to receive the “Schmidt Foundation Fellowship”. Congratulations! Link: https://schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/eric-and-wendy-schmidt-announce-2023-cohort/
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2023 May: Tamal received the INSA (Indian National Science Academy) Medal for Young Scientists.
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2023 April: Praver receives Infosys-TIFR Leading Edge Travel Grant to work in the group of Prof. Yasuyuki Fujita at Kyoto University, Japan.
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2023 March: Shilpa defended her PhD thesis successfully and became Dr. Pothapragada. Congratulations!
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2023 February: Aaheli and Padmashree join the CCD lab to pursue their PhD.
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2022 July: Tamal got promoted to Associate Professor.
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2022 June: Purnati’s discovery of a previously unknown Migration-induced Golgi apparatus remodelling (MIGAR), published in PNAS!
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2022 March: We receive the HFSP Research Grant to work on “Dynamics of multilayer epithelial structures: Integrative mechanical characterization of epidermis” in collaboration with Friedhelm Serwane (LMU Munich, Germany) and Dapeng (Max) Bi (Northeastern University, USA) [Highlighted in News: The Hindu, LMU Munchen]
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2022 January: Shilpa’s Nature Communications paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27896-z) is online!!!
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2021 December: We receive a Core Research Grant by SERB, India to work on “Mechanobiology of micron scale curvature sensing during epithelial gap closure”.
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2021 October: Tamal receives BM Udgaonkar Excellence in Teaching Award – one of the youngests to receive this award!
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2021 July: Sanak joins CCD Lab to pursue his PhD.
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2020 December: Rituraj receives DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Early Career Fellowship to work on “Dynamics, distribution, and function of lysosomes during collective cell migration: Exploring biochemistry and mechanobiology”!!!
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2020 November: Satya joins CCD Lab to pursue his postdoctoral project.
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2019 December: Tamal receives Merck Young Scientist Award (Finalist)!
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2019 May: Praver joins CCD Lab to pursue his PhD.
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2019 May: Simran joins CCD Lab to pursue her integrated MSc-PhD.
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2019 April: Rituraj joins CCD Lab to pursue her postdoctoral project.
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2018 April: Basil, Piyush, and Puranti join CCD Lab to pursue their PhD.
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2017 July: Prabhakar joins CCD Lab to pursue his postdoctoral project.
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2017 May: Tamal receives DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship to work on “Mechanobiology of cell competition”!
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2017 April: Shilpa joins CCD Lab as the first PhD student.
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2016 December: Tamal receives the Partner Group Award of the Max Planck Society, Germany to work on “Collective Cell Migration”. CCD Lab is a partner group to the Max Planck Society.
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2016 November: Tamal starts his independent group at TIFR Hyderabad.
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