Summer Pune Mornings, before the heat takes over.

Continues to feature in most cell adhesion / migration talks I give.

Was a great read.

The lab had 5 PhD students graduating at todays IISER Pune convocation. congratulations Arnav, Antara, Debasmita who could attend and Kajal and Mayuresh who have already left for greener pastures. Thrilled to see all of you finding your own calling and wishing you all the very best ahead !! 🥂🍾

WHat is “domestic helicopter research” and how do we avoid it? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Wonderful to see work by Arnav Saha and Tushar Sherkhane from the lab featured on the cover of JCS @jcellsci.bsky.social. A wonderful collaboration between a PhD and UG Masters student to pull this amazing story off. Thanks for the pick JCS tinyurl.com/AXLGolgi

Chandramouli Mukherjee, Bhavani Shankar Sahu and colleagues find that Chromogranin B plays an essential role in post-ER sorting of dense-core vesicle cargo. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess

Published Last week.... Work from the lab that shows a coordinated interaction between Arf1 and motor proteins (KIF5B and Dynein) is crucial for maintaining Golgi structure, efficient protein transport, and essential cell behaviors such as spreading and motility. LINK - doi.org/10.1111/tra....

The AXL-Golgi story we have been working on Is now published in two parts. 1) AXL receptor tyrosine kinase regulates Golgi organization and function via an adhesion-Arf1 signaling axis in breast and lung cancer cell lines tinyurl.com/AXLGolgi1 @biologyopen.bsky.social

That time of the summer. Alphonso time.

Summer on campus at @IISERPune

Published Last week.... Work from the lab that shows a coordinated interaction between Arf1 and motor proteins (KIF5B and Dynein) is crucial for maintaining Golgi structure, efficient protein transport, and essential cell behaviors such as spreading and motility. LINK - doi.org/10.1111/tra....

New paper from Stefano Piccolo and colleagues. "3D morphogenetic blueprint for metastatic outgrowth in breast cancer" We contributed the 3D reconstructions using CODA. More here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Have been talking to many students in the last few weeks about this. I was curious about how volunteering is viewed and the impact this has. Query : As a graduate student, how often are you involved in any volunteering work during your PhD ? Often, Occasionally, Never?

Great to see this study from the lab now in print. The differential expression of AXL, and its regulation of Arf1 expression and activation, controls Golgi organization in breast cancer cells in a stiffness-dependent manner. #matrix #mechanosensing #Golgi journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Wonderful to see work by Arnav Saha and Tushar Sherkhane from the lab featured on the cover of JCS @jcellsci.bsky.social. A wonderful collaboration between a PhD and UG Masters student to pull this amazing story off. Thanks for the pick JCS tinyurl.com/AXLGolgi

The abstract submission deadline for our upcoming 'Imaging Cell Dynamics' meeting is this Friday. We still have a few places remaining so apply now to secure your spot! Find out more at: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs... #imaging #microscopy #cellbiology

A much-delayed post, today being as good a day to share it. Jan 2026 saw Kajal and Debasmita defend their thesis and graduate. Its always incredible to look back and appreciate the journey. Congrajulations Kajal and Debasmita! @iiserpune Good Luck with everything ahead !!

Thanks @biophysj.bsky.social for this cool cover to start our year. Image from the lab by Debasmita shows a wild-type mouse embryonic fibroblast treated with the ROCK inhibitor Y-27632 and embedded in a 1.0 mg/mL 3D collagen gel. Link to MS - tinyurl.com/3Dcollagengel

Thanks @biophysj.bsky.social for this cool cover to start our year. Image from the lab by Debasmita shows a wild-type mouse embryonic fibroblast treated with the ROCK inhibitor Y-27632 and embedded in a 1.0 mg/mL 3D collagen gel. Link to MS - tinyurl.com/3Dcollagengel

If there has to be a wish for the coming year, let it be this. May we all be students willing to learn. Have an exciting, learning, inclusive 2026 !!

Jackson Lamb at his very best in #slowhorses Season 5 :-)

@rosariovalenti.bsky.social et al. created a proteome-wide yeast degron library for rapid in vivo protein depletion. This tool enables dynamic protein function studies with minimal cellular rewiring rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 From The Year In Cell Biology rupress.org/jcb/collecti... #CellBio2025

Are you attending #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia? Visit us at Journal of Cell Biology Booth #1224 to chat about the journal, pick up a copy of The Year in Cell Biology: 2025 magazine 📕, and grab one of our exclusive puzzles 🧩 See The Year in Cell Biology: 2025 rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

This semester saw Prof. Nishikant Subhedar teach his course one last time at IISER, Pune. An extraordinary teacher his course have stayed popular across generations of students. We had to raise a 🥂 to celebrate this exceptional career and person. Cheers to the next innings Sir!

Quite school libraries like this one at DLRC, Pune are to be cherished. Trying to get a Monday morning talk prepped waiting for kiddo to finish a game of soccer.

PhD students and Postdocs: The Night Science Podcast (@nightsciencepod.bsky.social) is producing an episode highlighting young scientists talking about their creative process. DM me if you'd like us to consider you for this, & read below what PhD student Davis Garner will contribute! ⬇️

Glad to see this in press @biophysj.bsky.social . Excellent work led by Debasmita at @IISERPune in collaboration with Shiva Patil's lab at @IISERPune and @MamoniDash lab at @ILS_Bhubaneswar. @ANRFIndia @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/biophysj/ful...

A mind map of the Bio101 course that introduces students to cells and their organization. Concepts from the course compiled by the class in the last lecture of the course @iiserpune. Insightful start to their cell bio journey at IISER,Pune.

Glad to see this in press @biophysj.bsky.social . Excellent work led by Debasmita at @IISERPune in collaboration with Shiva Patil's lab at @IISERPune and @MamoniDash lab at @ILS_Bhubaneswar. @ANRFIndia @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/biophysj/ful...

ATGC....DNA Anyone ? buff.ly/j4e4i9f

Like all years we host the Model Building sessions for the Bi1113 course at IISER,Pune. Organised by the TAs of the course this is a remarkable excercise in creativity and learning. Will share models put together in this thread. Details below.

Do join for this unique overnight concert on 8th evening, a great opportunity to listen to late night and early morning ragas which may not be too common in most concerts. At IISER, Pune. Open to All.

Interesting read... "Activity-dependent phosphorylation of paxillin at serine 119 promotes its nuclear translocation, enabling it to fine-tune gene splicing programs critical for synaptic refinement during sensitive periods of brain development." @EMBOJ buff.ly/bTEJvOQ

An introduction to the EMBO cytoskeleton meeting at @iiserpune and also the kit bag for the same by students as we kick the meeting off today. Looking forward to the same.

At the stroke of the midnight hour...we seem to have kept our tryst with destiny! Way to go #TeamIndia. @BCCIWomen (also lets remember to host our finals in mumbai)

Happening this weekend in #pune with a little piece by the 13 year old from home. The joys of a good fold. #origami

Painted November Sky #pune

One for the ages ! What a game. What a chase. What a win. Let’s do this one more time.

Wishing everyone a Happy Diwali from all of us at the Cell Adhesion Lab.🪔 (pic credit Debasmita)

Wonderful 2 days of science and conversations at the 1st Indian Mechanobiology Meeting at @NCBS. Thanks Tapa and all the student volunteers who made this possible. As awlays wonderful to be at the NCBS campus. Congratulations Antara on your poster award win ! Well deserved.

Will be speaking at IISc, Bangalore this morning on recent work looking at the cell-matrix interphase in 3D hydrogels. If you are around and interested in what such an analysis could reveal do join us at the DBG.

"Even if this is the end of humanity as we know it, let's fight to the very end. Let's let the children know, you know, that there is hope if they get together. And even if it becomes impossible for anybody, it's better to fight to the end than just to give up and say, 'Okay.' buff.ly/TrEQZG1

APPLICATIONS are NOW OPEN Jan 2026 PhD intake at the Department of Biology @IISERPune Submission Deadline: 5pm - OCT 23, 2025. For details, check the link below www.iiserpune.ac.in/education/ad...

Glorious Day at IISER, Pune today.

Friday Feynman …

"So long after his death, does Gandhi still matter? Should he matter? In this column from 2023, Ram Guha offers ten weighty reasons why Gandhi, his life, and his ideas still matter in the third decade of the 21st century." @scrollin buff.ly/NkAud75

RIP JG. We owe it her and many others like her that we take better care of this planet. Jane Goodall: The Hope (Full Episode) | SPECIAL | National Geographic youtu.be/4ST6pqfCTy0?...

The joy of spending the morning at a book sale yesterday was looking for my partner-in-crime, who had decided we had done enough walking and looking for the morning, and decided to find a cozy spot.