Indian Institute of Science Education and Research

Group

Past group members

 

Postdoctoral fellows

Dr. Cornelia Panse (Experts4Asia Fellow, University of Gottingen)

 

Dr. Vyankat Sontakke (SERB National Fellow)

 

Dr. Ragini A

 

 

Ph. D. students

Dr. Maroti Pawar

 

Dr. Arun Tanpure (Senior Scientist, Evonetix, Cambridge, UK)

 

Dr. Anupam Sawant (Postdoctoral fellow: IISER, Pune)

 

Dr. Pramod Sabale (Senior Manager, NATCO Pharma Limited, NATCO Research Centre)

 

Dr. Ashok N (Postdoctoral fellow: New York University School of Medicine, USA)

 

Dr. Sudeshna Manna (Postdoctoral fellow: Helmholtz Institute for RNA-Based Infection Research)

 

Dr. Jerrin G. Thomas (Postdoctoral fellow: Columbia University, USA)

 

Dr. Manisha Walunj (Postdoctoral fellow: University of Wurzburg, Germany)

 

Dr. Saddam Khatik (Postdoctoral fellow: Nagoya University)

 

 

BS-MS and project students

RoshniRani Khamari

 

Bhakti Rout (M. Tech, IIT Bombay)

 

Uddhav Ambi (Ph. D. Germany)

 

Samikshakiran​ Deepak Agham, BS-MS IISER, Pune

 

Sarangamath Sangamesh (Ph. D. Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

 

Aditi Dixit (Ph. D. IISER, Pune)

 

Dr. Harita Rao, BS-MS IISER, Pune

 

Anurag Agrawal (Ph. D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

BS-MS, IISER, Pune

 

Pooja Patheja (Ph. D. BARC, India)

M. Sc., Pune University

 

Progya Mukherjee (Ph. D. University of Dundee, UK)

Project assistant

 

Shweta Yelgaonkar (Ph. D. University of Iowa, USA)

Project assistant

Srivatsan Group

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pulak Ghosh

 

B. Sc. Narendrapur Ramakrishna college, Kolkata (2016)

 

Integrated Ph. D. IISER Pune

 

Research interest: Site-specific labeling of nucleic acids with conformation-sensitive nucleoside probes using template-independent and template-dependent polymerases

 

E-mail: pulak.ghosh@students.iiserpune.ac.in

Sarupa Roy

 

B. Sc. Jadavpur University (2017)

 

M. Sc. IIT Guwahati (2019)

 

Research interest: Development of conformation-sensitive nucleoside probes for studying secondary structures of viral genomes

 

E-mail: roy.sarupa@students.iiserpune.ac.in

Swagata Dutta

 

B. Sc. Jadavpur University (2017)

 

M. Sc. Jadavpur University (2019)

 

Research interest: Targeting specific gene locus using oligonucleotide-drug/antibody conjugates

 

E-mail: dutta.swagata@students.iiserpune.ac.in

Graduate students

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Apeksha Phadate

 

M. Pharm: Goa College of Pharmacy, Goa (2015)

 

Ph.D.: BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus  (2021)

 

Research Interest: Development of nucleoside probes to study structure, dynamics, and functions of nucleic acids

 

E-mail: apeksha.phadate@acads.iiserpune.ac.in

Arindam Pal

 

B.Sc: Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur, West Bengal (2019)

 

Integrated PhD: IISER Pune

 

Research Interest: Development of chemo-enzymatic method for labeling of nucleic acid

 

Email: pal.arindam@students.iiserpune.ac.in

Harshkumar U. Maniar

 

B.Sc: Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Gujarat (2017)

 

M.Sc: Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Gujarat (2019)

 

Research Interest: Post synthetic modification of nucleic acid using novel biorthogonal reaction

 

Email: maniar.harshkumar@students.iiserpune.ac.in

Punyaprava Naik

 

Vivek Mahakur

Prof. S. G. Srivatsan (Ph. D.)

Department of Chemistry

Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Senior Fellow

E-mail: srivatsan@iiserpune.ac.in

Phone: +91 (20) 25908086