I am thrilled to receive the Damon Runyon Fellowship Award from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. The prestigious, four-year Fellowship encourages the nation’s most promising young scientists to pursue careers in cancer research by provi...

I am excited to mention that our preprint, "Membrane Kymograph Generator: A cross-platform GUI software for automated generation and analysis of kymographs along dynamic cell boundaries", is now available on bioRxiv! Full paper: On bioRxiv Code is ...

I am pleased to mention that our Manuscript, "PIP5K-Ras bistability triggers plasma membrane symmetry breaking to define cellular polarity and regulate migration", is now available on bioRxiv! Full paper: On bioRxiv Code is available in the GitHub ...

I am excited to mention that our review paper, "Signaling and actin waves at a glance", has now been published in Journal of Cell Science! Full paper: On Journal Website PMID: 40843611 PMCID: PMC12380181 Download PDF Download Full Figure Trivia t...

I am honored to receive the 2024 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. The award honors Weintraub’s scientific leadership and his legacy as an extraordinary mentor, colleague, collaborator and friend. Each y...

I am pleased to mention that our paper, "A dynamic partitioning mechanism polarizes membrane protein distribution", has now been published in Nature Communications! Full paper: On Journal Website PMID: 38036511 PMCID: PMC10689845 Press release from...

I am excited to mention that I will be co-chairing a special interest subgroup in ASCB|EMBO Cell Bio 2023 Meeting (Cell Bio 2023) with Prof Peter N Devreotes and Prof Tobias Meyer. The session title is Feedback Loops and Spatiotemporal Patterning. Ou...

I am pleased to mention that I have been awarded the ASCB Porter Prize for Research Excellence 2023 by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). One graduate student and one postdoctoral researcher will be selected on the basis of scientific ex...

I am honored to receive the David I. Macht Research Award 2023 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The David Israel Macht Research Prize, established in 1983 to mark the centenary of the birth of Dr. Macht, recognizes outstanding ...

I am pleased to receive the Lewis Travel Award 2022, from the Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. With this award ($500), I will be attending the Cell Bio 2022 2022 as a Microsymposium speaker (Session Title: Spa...

I am pleased to mention that our paper, "Spatiotemporal dynamics of membrane surface charge regulates cell polarity and migration", has now been published in Nature Cell Biology! Full paper: On Journal Website PMID: 36202973 PMCID: PMC10029748 Pres...

I am honored to be announced as a Siebel Scholar, Class of 2023, in the Bioengineering category. Siebel Scholars recognizes the most talented students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering, and energy...

I am excited to mention that I will be co-chairing a platform session in Biophysical Society 65th Annual Meeting with Prof Wolfgang Losert. The session title is Pattern Formation and Biochemical Excitability in Controlling Cell System Dynamics. Our s...

I am honored to mention that I have been awarded the Hay Graduate Fellowship 2020 by the Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The Isaac Morris Hay and Lucille Elizabeth Hay Graduate Fellowship provides support fo...

I am pleased to receive the Drescher Travel Award 2019, from the Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. With this award ($750), I will be attending the ASCB|EMBO meeting 2019 as a minisymposium speaker and roundtabl...

Okay, now I can finally call myself a Master of Technology in Chemical Engineering! It is my absolute pleasure to mention that I have finally graduated from IIT Kanpur and received the MTech degree in 49th Convocation. This is a photo from the convo...

After spending long twenty one wonderful years at Kolkata (the city of joy), almost continuously, now I have moved to Kanpur to pursue an M. Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kanpur. Of course, I am excited to be back in Kanpur where I spe...