July 2025​​

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• Prof. Subramanian delivered a keynote address, chaired a session, and provided career guidance to students at the Third International Conference on Plant Functional Biology, organized by the Department of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Botany in collaboration with the Botany Alumni Association at Sir Syed College, Taliparamba, Kannur, Kerala.

• Prof. Subramanian gave an invited talk on "Molecular Basis of Stigma growth and pollination in Arabidopsis thaliana" in the Biogroup India meeting held at CDRI Lucknow and IIT Kanpur.

• Prof. Subramanian delivered an expert talk on Past, Present, and Future of Genome Editing Technology," organized by Ganpat University!

 

• Pratham and Nayanshi completed their SRIP internship. Congratulations Pratham and Nayanshi!

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June 2025

We had a group meeting with our collaborators from Ahmedabad University and Gujarat Biotechnology University!

Nilesh's paper has been published in Plant Physiology.

Congratulations Nilesh!

Sourabh successfully defended his MTech. thesis. Congratulations Sourabh!

 

May 2025​​

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• Hemal won a travel award at CSHL Asia conference in Awajima, Japan. Congratulations Hemal!

• Subhojit's review paper has been accepted in the Plant Nano Biology Journal. Congratulations Subhojit!

• Nayanshi Jain (IISER Berhampur) and Pratham Shah (IISER Bhopal) have joined the lab as SRIP interns. Welcome, Nayanshi and Pratham!

• Hemal presented his work at the CSHL Asia meeting. Congratulations Hemal!

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April 2025

• Prof. Subramanian's paper from the Postdoc. has been accepted in Plant Reproduction. Congratulations, Prof. Subramanian!

• Welcome to Dr. Surabhi to our Lab!

• Congratulations to Hemal on the Overseas fellowship to work at the University of  Calgary!

• Congratulations to Tisha for successful completion of her dissertation and admission to University of Queensland!

• Congratulations to Nilesh for Plant Physiology News and Vews  paper!

March 2025​​

• Prof. Subramanian gave a talk on the history of the CRISPR-Cas technique organized by the Science Council, IISER Bhopal.

• Prof. Subramanian delivered a session in the Faculty Development Program on Genome Editing for Sustainable Crop Improvement, which was organized by Ganpat University!

• Prof. Subramanian presented at the 13th International Conference on Advances in Arachis Through Genomics and Biotechnology 23rd-25th March 2025

February 2025

• Lab participated in National Science Day and interacted with school students!

• Prof. Santosh B. Satbhai from IISER Mohali gave a talk in the Biological Sciences and Engineering seminar series and visited the lab!

• Nilesh Presented his work at the EMBO conference. Congrats Nilesh!

• Prof. Subramanian was one of the IITGN themes leads in 'COLAB 2025-Industry Open House' for the session "GREEN NEXUS: Energy, Water, Agriculture, Infrastructure, and Sustainability."

• Karthik got an offer for PhD admission from the University of Sydney, Australia. Congrats Karthik!

• Charli attended an international training program on "Genome Editing in Plants Advance Tools and Techniques" at IARI, New Delhi. Congrats Charli!

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• Our Lab has been featured in the plant reproduction newsletter!

  January 2025

    Happy New Year!

• Prof. Subramanian presented in "Public Talk on Nobel prize in Medicine and Physiology" in the celebration of  the 10th anniversary of INYAS.

• Hemal Presented his computational biology work at the ICDPBB conference held at the University of Hyderabad. Congratulations Hemal!

• Charli's paper with Prof. Bhaskar's group has been accepted. Congratulations Charli!

• The lab participated in Curiosity Carnival and interacted with School students.

• A group from Maejo University, Thailand, visited the lab.

• Hari has been selected for a summer internship at Purdue University. Congrats Hari!

• Dr. Charli's review paper is online Frontier's in Genome Editing Journal. Congratulations Charli! 

•  Aman, Hari and Tisha joined the lab for PhD, M.Tech and undergraduate internship respectively. Welcome Aman, Hari and Trisha!

• December 2024

• Dr. Subramanian Delivered a talk at Gujarat Biotechnology University titled "Why take up plant biology as a career"

• Hemal's paper on structural insights into the recognition of RAFL peptides by FERONIA receptor kinase is accepted in Plant Molecular Biology journal. This is a collaborative work with Dr. Ashutosh Srivastava's group. Many congrats Hemal!

• We had an in person meeting with Dr. Bhuvan's group to discuss the work progress of our joint project.

• Dr. Subramanian delivered an online lecture on Cloning and plant transformation to the students of Uka Tarsadia University 

• Dr. Charli's review paper is accepted in Frontier's in Genome Editing Journal. This paper is in collaboration with Dr. Bhuvan Pathak's lab at Ahmedabad University. Congratulations Charli! 

• Dr. Nilesh is selected an Assistant Features Editor for Plant Physiology  from 2025! Congrats Nilesh!

• Hemal's paper on structural insights into competitive binding dynamics between RALF23/33-PCP-B  during Brassicaceae pollination is now online in bioRxiv!  This is a collaborative work with Prof. Ashutosh's group. Congrats Hemal!

• Dr. Subramanian is promoted to Associate Editor for the journal Frontiers in Plant Science (Plant Development and EvoDevo)!

• November 2024

• Hemal and Ankita's perspective paper is online in Plant Reproduction!

• October 2024

• Our lab helped in organising a hand-on training program on Plant Tissue Culture and Transgenics with Gujarat Biotech Research Center (14th-25th October)

• Hemal and Ankita's perspective paper is accepted in Plant reproduction journal! Congrats Hemal and Ankita!

• Ankita passed her QE exam! Congrats Ankita!

• Subhojit and Snigdha passed their proposal defence! Congrats Subhojit and Snigdha!

• September 2024

• ​We celebrated teachers day on 5th September

• Nischay and Wesley's SRIP work got accepted in Journal of Applied Biology and Biotechnology! Congrats Nischay and Wesley!

• August 2024

• Samar Farming of Cotton project is featured in R&D Horizons !

• July 2024

• Nischay, Wesley and Jaidev successfully completed their SRIP internship and presented their poster 

• Dr. Subramanian attended the 27th ICSPR meeting in Providence and presented Hemal's work. He also chaired the session on pollen-pistil interaction and pollen tube growth

• We hosted the 6th Biogroup India meeting at IITGN. Dr. Subramanian welcomed the gathering

• Nilesh and Hemal's review paper is online in Plant reproduction! 

• June 2024

• Nilesh and Hemal's review paper is accepted in Plant reproduction! Congrats Nilesh and Hemal!

• Ayushi and Govardhan join the lab as summer interns. Welcome Ayushi and Govardhan!

• Subhankar Raha defended his M.Tech thesis successfully! Congrats Subhankar!

• May 2024

• Dr. Subramanian's comment titled "India is trialing gene-edited rice after regulatory change is published in Nature India!  https://doi.org/10.1038/d44151-024-00076-w

• Nilesh's article published in the Canadian Society of Plant Biologist Spring Bulletin 2024! Congrats Nilesh!

• Summer interns Jaidev Khalane, Nischay Patel and Wesley Ochieng joined the group under SRIP program. Welcome to them!

• Dr. Subramanian delivered a lecture on plant reproduction at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda​

• April 2024

• Nilesh's work is highlighted in Post-doc times!

• Raviraj and Nilesh's paper is online in Chemical Papers! Congrats Raviraj, Nilesh and all authors!

• March 2024​​

• Dr. Nilesh Gawande's research paper is accepted and online in Frontiers in Plant Science! Congratulations Nilesh!

• Dr. Subramanian interacted with 80+ school teachers from Telangana state and introduced them to plant research and discussed about various aspects of education.​

• February 2024

• We received the SERB SRG grant!

• Dr. Charli's research is highlighted in The Post D0c Times!

• Dr. Nilesh Gawande is awarded the best poster prize in the Genomics India conference held in Delhi! Congratulations Nilesh!

• Dr. Kasturi Venkat from Caltech, NASA-JPL visited the lab and  organised a talk by David Reed from Redwire.

• Dr. Subramanian presented at the inter-IIT wellness meet at IIT-Roorkee​

• January 2024 - Happy NEW Year!!

• Raviraj's manuscript is accepted in Chemical Papers! Congrats to Raviraj, Nilesh and all other authors!

• Sourabh joins the lab as M.Tech student. Welcome Sourabh!

• Ankita joins the lab as PhD student. Welcome Ankita!

• Dr. Subramanian presented at the Academic conclave held at IITGN

• December 2023

• Dr. Subramanian's collaborative work with Prof. Lucia Colombo's group is now published in Plant Physiology!

• Hemal passed his Qualifying Exam! Many congratulations Hemal!

• November 2023 

• Satya Omprabha presented her work in the 3rd International conference on Nanomaterials in Biology and won the best poster award ! Many Congratulations Satya!

• Subhojit's review article is accepted in Chemistry Select. Congratulations Subhojit!

• October 2023

• Hemal is awarded the prestigious PMRF fellowship. Many congratulations Hemal!

• September 2023

• The lab will receive a grant from SERB soon. Project proposal is accepted for funding! 

• Dr. Subramanian gave an invited seminar at Madurai Kamaraj University as part of American Society for Microbiology student chapter series

• Lab members celebrated teachers day on September 5th

• August 2023

• Satya Omprabha defended her thesis. Congrats Satya!

• July 2023

• Dr. Subramanian gave an invited talk at the 5th BiogroupIndia meet held at JNCASR, Bangalore on 17th July 2023

• June 2023

• Devika presents her work  in the SRIP poster session.

• Subhankar receives the prestigious DAAD KOSPIE India scholarship to do this M. Tech research in Germany! Congrats Subhankar!! He will work in Prof. Theo Lange's group at Technische University Braunschweig

• May 2023

• Dr. Subramanian 's article in collaboration with the Samuel Lab, summarising the recent Nature paper (Huang et al. 2023) is published in Current Biology!

• Two SRIP 2023 interns Ms.Devika Miglani and Mr. Shashank Verma join over lab for this summer. Welcome Devika and Shashank!

• Dr. Nilesh's research is highlighted in The Post D0c Times!

• March 2023

• Dr.Subramanian delivered a Key note presentation in the 7th edition of Global congress on Plant Biology and Biotechnology (Magnus Group)

• Dr. Subramanian served as a judge in the state level inter college competition "Biotechnology lead ideas to solve local problems" held at IITGN

• February 2023

• We celebrated National Science day. Our lab explained the process of tissue culture to school students

• Raviraj Barot completed his M.Sc. thesis project at IITGN

• We received a grant from LT&T company for the cotton smart farming project with Prof. Shanmughanathan Raman and Prof. Pankaj Khanna!

• Dr. Subramanian attended the Young investigators meeting held at IITGN and Ahmedabad University

• Satya Omprabha from Central University of Gujarat joins the lab for M.Sc. dissertation project! Welcome Satya!

• January 2023

• Dr. Charli Kaushal joined our lab (Jan 11th)! Welcome Charli!

• Hemal is selected for DST INSPIRE fellowship for his PhD! Congratulations!

•  Subhojit and Snigdha joined our lab for PhD (Jan 2nd)! Welcome Subhojit and Snigdha!

• December 2022

• Dr. Subramanian's invited article titled "Returning home and integrating with Indian Science" is published by IndiaBioScience 

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• https://indiabioscience.org/columns/journey-of-a-yi/returning-home-and-integrating-with-indian-science

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• November 2022

• Mr.Raviraj Barot a student of Sardar Patel University joined our lab for his M.Sc. thesis. Welcome Raviraj!

• Dr. Abhinandan Kumar from 20/20 seeds, Canada visited IITGN and delivered an exciting talk titled "The regulatory mechanisms of incest control in Brassica"

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• October 2022

• Dr. Subramanian is selected for the DBT-Ramaligaswami fellowship (2021-2022)

• The lab receives a grant  from GSBTM to develop groundnut cultivars with improved oil quality using a CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing approach. The project is in collaboration with Dr.Bhuvan Pathak's lab

• Dr. Subramanian joins the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Plant Science as a Review Editor