🎉 Thrilled to share that I've joined the Department of Oils, Lipid Science, and Technology @csiriict, Hyderabad as a Scientist! 🌟Immense gratitude to my advisors, family, and all who helped me achieve this significant milestone in my career. #NewPI #LipidScience #CSIRIICT

Excited to share that my work as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Keating Lab at Penn State University has now been published in Langmuir @ACSPublications! 🎉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs… I thank my postdoc supervisor, Prof. Keating, for her support and @NASA for the fellowship.

We are pleased to announce that the website of our new research group at CSIR-IICT is now live! Visit the "Lipid Systems Lab" website to learn about our research, team, and open positions. We would appreciate your reposts to help us gain visibility. sites.google.com/view/lipid-…

We are looking for motivated PhD candidates to join our lab at CSIR–IICT through the upcoming admission cycle to work on an ICMR-funded collaborative project on developing innovative lipid-based delivery platforms for mRNA vaccines. Interested? Get in touch for more details!

Excited to share that our new review article, to which I contributed during my NASA Postdoc, has been published in Astrobiology! Here, we discuss the synthesis, self-assembly, and chemical evolution of functional polymers during life's origin. liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/1…

CSIR-IICT, a premier research institute in India, invites applications for multiple "Scientist" positions. Join us for an exciting and fulfilling career in research and academia! #ScientistJobs #CSIR #ResearchCareers #Academia #JobOpportunities

#Congratulations to Dr. Siddhesh Kamat from the Biology Department of #IISERPune on being chosen for the #InfosysPrize2024 ! Best wishes to Dr. Kamat and team! iiserpune.ac.in/news/post/dr…

It has been a pleasure and a valuable learning experience for me to serve as a co-convener of the Refresher Course 2024.

It was a great pleasure & honor to work with @KeatingGroupPSU as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow. Thank you, Chris, for being an exceptional mentor. I also sincerely thank @NASA and @orau for the fellowship support and @penn_state for the institutional backing.

Congrats, Chris! 😃

We show proof of concept that targeting nuclear import inhibits differentiation of gametocytes of P. falciparum and bradyzoites of T. gondii. @Bhambid_Manasi @SujataWalunj @anupamaca7 Shilpi Jain and Diksha Mehta, collabs with Asif Mohmmed and David Jans. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Applicable in any team environment 👌🏽👌🏽

We have a postdoc position under the DBT-Wellcome India Alliance funded project to explore the mechanisms of cohesin loading on yeast and mammalian chromosomes @IISERPune . The deadline to apply is July 11 '24. Please check the link below - Advert 39/2024 iiserpune.ac.in/opportunitie…

Recent review frm @COoLLabSR led by @Think_SoDa & @PGauri08, n supported by other lab members, got published in @EPJscience. It deals with 'Compartmentalization as a ubiquitous feature of life', wherein we aim to bridge basic membrane research in OoL/synth bio, with biomimetics.

“What was the point of learning calculus as I never apply it anywhere?” said my IIT Bombay junior He seems right. Not only calculus, but fluid dynamics, atomic structure and particle physics are useless. Even things taught in school like trigonometry, mitochondria (yes, I know you remember), or Julius Caesar are all irrelevant. Instead, they should have taught us about personal finance, how to make money, how to do better at the workplace. Except, the thinking is all wrong Education is not supposed to teach you how to do a job or how to make money. It is to teach you how to think. Limiting education to the narrow pursuit of making money is the biggest disservice you can do to yourself. This is why I always worry about the obsession with college placement statistics and packages. Colleges are places to learn and build relationships, not be placement agencies All the apparently useless stuff taught to you teaches you thinking, problem-solving, curiosity, and mental models. People asked me if my B Tech was wasted after I did my MBA. I usually tell them this. - By the age of 1, I had “wasted” one year learning how to crawl. I may never crawl again, but did it help me develop the ability to run? Most definitely yes. - By the age of 11 I had “wasted” two years learning how to cycle. I may hardly ever cycle again, but did it help me develop road sense to drive? Most definitely yes. - By the age of 21, I had “wasted” four years learning physics. I may rarely read about physics again, but did it help me develop a structured and analytical thought process? Most definitely yes. Running is very “different” from crawling, in theory. Cycling is very “different” from driving, in theory. Engineering is very “different” from an MBA, in theory. Were they a waste? Most definitely not. You will realize one commonality in rich and/or successful people. They know a lot of apparently useless stuff. Einstein was a great violinist. Gates knows way too much about nuclear fusion. Zuckerberg can MMA. This is a feature of success, not a bug. Curiosity and an obsession with learning got them where they are. Money was simply a by-product. School, college, and postgrad should all teach you how to think. If you don't know how to think and apply your mind to a variety of situations, you will be boring. That's the definition of a robot. Instead, try to be all curious like a human

Nucleotide-Protocell Interactions: A Reciprocal Relationship in Prebiotically Pertinent Environments by Sudha Rajamani and co-workers @IISERPune @COoLLabSR onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

CSIR-IICT Walk-in Notification No 03/2024. For more information see iict.res.in/CAREERS @CSIR_IND @DrNKalaiselvi @CSIR_NIScPR @AcSIR_India