News/Updates

  • 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.

  • 2023 October: Shilpa received “TAA – Zita Lobo Memorial Commendation – Best Thesis in Biology (2022-23)“.

  • 2023 September: Purnati defended her PhD thesis successfully and became Dr. Khuntia. Congratulations!

  • 2023 September: Simran receives Best poster award at the Mechanobiology Institute conference in NUS, Singapore.

  • 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/

  • 2023 May: Tamal received the INSA (Indian National Science Academy) Medal for Young Scientists.

  • 2023 April: Praver receives Infosys-TIFR Leading Edge Travel Grant to work in the group of Prof. Yasuyuki Fujita at Kyoto University, Japan.

  • 2023 March: Shilpa defended her PhD thesis successfully and became Dr. Pothapragada. Congratulations!

  • 2022 July: Tamal got promoted to Associate Professor.

  • 2022 Jun: Purnati’s discovery of a previously unknown Migration-induced Golgi apparatus remodelling (MIGAR), published in PNAS!!!

  • 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]

  • 2022 January: Shilpa’s Nature Communications paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27896-z) is online!!!

  • 2021 December: We receive a Core Research Grant by SERB, India to work on “Mechanobiology of micron scale curvature sensing during epithelial gap closure”.

  • 2021 October: Tamal receives BM Udgaonkar Excellence in Teaching Award – one of the youngests to receive this award!

  • 2021 July: Sanak joins CCD Lab to pursue his PhD.

  • 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”!!!

  • 2020 November: Satya joins CCD Lab to pursue his postdoctoral project.

  • 2019 December: Tamal receives Merck Young Scientist Award (Finalist)!

  • 2019 May: Praver joins CCD Lab to pursue his PhD.

  • 2019 May: Simran joins CCD Lab to pursue her integrated MSc-PhD.

  • 2019 April: Rituraj joins CCD Lab to pursue her postdoctoral project.

  • 2018 April: Basil, Piyush, and Puranti join CCD Lab to pursue their PhD.

  • 2017 July: Prabhakar joins CCD Lab to pursue his postdoctoral project.

  • 2017 May: Tamal receives DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship to work on “Mechanobiology of cell competition”!!!

  • 2017 April: Shilpa joins CCD Lab as the first PhD student.

  • 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.

  • 2016 November: Tamal starts his independent group at TIFR Hyderabad.