Pucadyil Lab
Membrane remodelling in cellular physiology
Cell membranes are formed by the spontaneous self-assembly of amphipathic lipids into a 5 nanometer-thin bilayer sheet. Membranes are fluid and capable of resealing quickly upon rupture. Perhaps, these qualities lie at the heart of nature choosing lipids to contain every know life form. Membranes are also elastic materials that resist remodeling. But cells contain numerous membrane-bound compartments that form and get consumed by budding, fission and fusion, which are managed by specialised protein machines.
The Pucadyil Lab focuses on discovering membrane remodeling proteins and understanding their mechanistic and regulatory aspects. We carry out biochemical screens to identify such proteins, employ reconstitution approaches to understand how they work and investigate their functions in living systems.
Lab news
April 9, 2024
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Soumya's paper on reconstituting membrane tubulation and fission using novel cushioned bilayer templates accepted in PNAS.
March 4, 2024
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Krishnendu graduates with a Ph.D. !!!
February 13, 2024
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Himani graduates with a Ph.D. !!!
February 5, 2024
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Soumya graduates with a Ph.D. !!!
September 17, 2023
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Soumya's paper on reconstituting membrane tubulation and fission using novel cushioned bilayer templates posted on the bioarxiv.
June 19, 2023
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Our review on gears in dynamin-catalyzed fission gets published in Current Opinions in Cell Biology.
March 21, 2023
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Himani gets invited to give a talk at the EMBO Cell Polarity and Membrane Dynamics meeting.
March 16, 2023
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Thomas' invited perspective piece on mitochondrial fission published in Molecular Cell.
February 9, 2023
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Himani's paper on a novel variable loop in dynamin accepted in PNAS.
February 4, 2023
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Thomas gets invited to speak at the Biophysical Society's Membrane Fusion and Budding meeting in Colorado.
January 20-24, 2023
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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
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Himani's paper on a novel variable loop in dynamin posted on the bioarxiv.
August 30, 2022
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Uma, Megha and Gurmail get selected to present posters at the EMBO Phosphoinositide meeting.
June 22, 2022
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Krishnendu get the EMBO Travel Grant to attend the EMBO Birth and Fission of Cellular Compartments meeting.
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Shilpa get the Infosys Travel Grant to attend the EMBO Birth and Fission of Cellular Compartments meeting.
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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
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The Pucadyil Lab gets awarded the Team Science Grant from DBT Wellcome Trust India Alliance.
February 14, 2022
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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.
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Krishnendu's paper on metal binding in the mitochondrial Drp1 accepted in a special issue of membrane remodelling in the Journal of Membrane Biology.
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