February 2025

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

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

• Nilesh Presented his work in EMBO conference. Congrats Nilesh!

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

• Karthik got offer for PhD admission from 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 plant reproduction newsletter!

  January 2025

    Happy New Year!

• Prof. Subramanian presented in "Public talk on nobel prize in medicine and physiology" on celebration of  10th anniversary of INYAS.

• Hemal Presented his computational biology work in ICDPBB conference held in university of Hydrabad. Congratulations Hemal!

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

• The lab participated in Curiosity Carnival and interacted with Schools 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