IISER Pune

June 18, 2025

• Shilpa graduates with a Ph.D.!!!
   

May 30, 2025

• Keerti's paper on the cynaobacterial bacterial-like dynamin posted on the bioarxiv.
   

May 26, 2025

• Shilpa's and Gurmail's paper on the yeast dynamin Vps1 posted on the bioarxiv.

 

May 22, 2025

• Himani's paper showing that the mycobacterial protein Wag 31 tethers membranes accepted in eLife.

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April 30, 2025

• Megha's review on dynamins accepted in Biochemistry.

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March 19, 2025

• Krishnendu's paper in collaboration with Tamas Balla's lab on identifying a lipid-based mechanism that stimulates mitochondrial fission accepted in Nature Communications
   

March 19, 2025

• Krishnendu's paper in collaboration with Tamas Balla's lab on identifying a lipid-based mechanism that stimulates mitochondrial fission accepted in Nature Communications
   

March 19, 2025

• Krishnendu's paper in collaboration with Tamas Balla's lab on identifying a lipid-based mechanism that stimulates mitochondrial fission accepted in Nature Communications
   

October 27-29 , 2024

• 2nd Organelle Biology and Membrane Trafficking meeting to be held at IISER Pune - Organized by Nagaraj and Thomas. 

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August , 2024

• Shivansh and Sejal join the Pucadyil Lab as graduate students. 

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May 29, 2024

• Swayam graduates with a BS-MS degree. Himani, Shomu and Krishnendu graduate with a Ph.D. Himani received the best thesis award in the Biology department. 
   

May 1, 2024

• Everything you wanted to know about SMrT templates can be found in Uma's review in Biochemical Society Transactions.

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April 9, 2024

• Soumya's paper on reconstituting membrane tubulation and fission using novel cushioned bilayer templates accepted in PNAS.
   

March 4, 2024

• Krishnendu graduates with a Ph.D. !!!
   

February 13, 2024

• Himani graduates with a Ph.D. !!!
   

February 5, 2024

• Soumya graduates with a Ph.D. !!!

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September 17, 2023

• Soumya's paper on reconstituting membrane tubulation and fission using novel cushioned bilayer templates posted on the bioarxiv.
   

June 19, 2023

• Our review on gears in dynamin-catalyzed fission gets published in Current Opinions in Cell Biology. 
   

March 21, 2023

• Himani gets invited to give a talk at the EMBO Cell Polarity and Membrane Dynamics meeting. 
   

March 16, 2023

• Thomas' invited perspective piece on mitochondrial fission published in Molecular Cell.
   

February 9, 2023

• Himani's paper on a novel variable loop in dynamin accepted in PNAS.
   

February 4, 2023

• Thomas gets invited to speak at the Biophysical Society's Membrane Fusion and Budding meeting in Colorado. 
   

January 20-24, 2023

• The Pucadyil Lab attends the 45th All India Cell Biology Conference at Varanasi. This is somewhat of a lab retreat as well (see the photos).
   

September 4, 2022

• Himani's paper on a novel variable loop in dynamin posted on the bioarxiv.
   

August 30, 2022

• Uma, Megha and Gurmail get selected to present posters at the EMBO Phosphoinositide meeting.
   

June 22, 2022

• Krishnendu get the EMBO Travel Grant to attend the EMBO Birth and Fission of Cellular Compartments meeting.

• Shilpa get the Infosys Travel Grant to attend the EMBO Birth and Fission of Cellular Compartments meeting.

• Our response to a recent paper claiming that Drp1 does not catalyze fission gets published as Letter to the Editor in PNAS.
   

April 19, 2022

• The Pucadyil Lab gets awarded the Team Science Grant from DBT Wellcome Trust India Alliance.
   

February 14, 2022

• Devika's and Himani's paper on SUPER template pulldowns accepted in a special issue dedicated to Erwin London in the Journal of Membrane Biology.

• Krishnendu's paper on metal binding in the mitochondrial Drp1 accepted in a special issue of membrane remodelling in the Journal of Membrane Biology.