2018/03 We welcome Nour Alkazwini a visiting student from Lebanon who will work on her Masters thesis project with us. Welcome Nour!
2018/03 Good news all around for the lab: the first postdocs transition to jobs and the latest undergraduate gets admissions to grad schools in the US. Amit Vutha accepts a faculty job at the Azim Premji University and Pawan Nandakishore makes a move towards industry with an Insight Data Science Fellowship. Shreyas Gopalakrishnan is all set to travel to Boston for grad school at Harvard later this year.
2018/03 Together with Geert van den Bogaart and Stefano Sacanna, we were just awarded a Young Investigator Grant from the HFSP.
2018/02 Chandan Reddy joins us as a JRF with a fellowship from the DBT.
2017/11 Flow-induced phase separation and the effect of hydrodynamic confinement on collective dynamics in populations of self-propelled particles. Our latest preprint on the arXiv.
2017/09 Bacterial populations as condensed active matter: our recent work on phase transitions underlying bacterial aggregation is now out as a preprint on the arXiv.
2017/08 We have some new entrants in the lab: Manoj Kumar joins our group as a postdoc after finishing his PhD at NCL, Pune in soft matter physics. Vidhya Lakshmi joins as a research fellow after being a JRF at CMC, Vellore. Welcome aboard.
2017/02 Aditya is selected for a Ludwig Prandtl Internship in Gottingen and Charuhansini is selected to attend the Boulder School in Condensed Matter Physics in the summer - congratulations!
2017/02 We welcome two PhD students - Ashwini and Chittaspandini, who is jointly advised by Satyajit Mayor.
2017/01 Kickstarting the second year of our lab, we just got news about the acceptance of our work on public goods production and population dynamics in C. elegans for publication at PNAS!
2016/12 In the upcoming year, we start as a Max Planck Partner Group with the MPI for Dynamics and Self Organization in Gottingen to work on various aspects of self-organization within living matter. Looking forward to some exciting times!
2016/11 This summer, led by Karthik, we went off looking for traces of Kenneth Anderson in the distant memories of some village elders, in villages tucked away among the hilly, green jungles.
2016/08 Exciting new beginnings as the lab space starts taking shape.
2016/08 We welcome Gowtham and Krishnan who start their first rotations in the new grad student season.
2016/08 Pranav and Anurag will work on their final year theses in our lab. Pranav is working on the geometry of flocks and swarms while Anurag is setting up experiments on microbial populations.
2016/07 Amit gave a great talk at ICTS and the group rounded it off with an evening out in town to celebrate.
2016/06 A fun Monsoon School concluded last week with a spontaneous game of Ultimate Frisbee as a light monsoon shower came down.
2016/05 We are organizing the NCBS Monsoon School on the Physics of Life next month.
2017/05 We welcome a new postdoc and bid adieu to the undergraduates in the lab. Godwin Stephenson comes after his PhD at Cambridge University. Anurag, Pranav and Naga Teja are off to grad school- we will miss you guys and good luck on the new shores!
2017/04 This week, we inaugurate our Max Planck Partner Group with a one day symposium bringing together scientists from across institutes in Bangalore.
2017/04 Dr. Jeffrey Philippson starts as a visiting postdoc in our group. We're hoping to kickstart some of our ideas on high-throughput microscopy setups during his time here. A warm welcome, Jeff!
2017/03 Great news from the undergrads in the lab. Anurag and Pranav get into all the top grad school programs in the US - plenty of riches to choose from. Congratulations guys!
2016/05 Hans George joins us to work on his final year undergraduate project. Welcome aboard Hans!
2016/03 Congratulations to Arghyadip for successfully defending his undergraduate thesis. After wrapping up the work with us over the next couple of months, he will head to Dresden to start his PhD with Prof. Frank Juelicher.
2016/03 Prof. Tim Pedley visits our group as part of his Raman Professorship, leading to stimulating discussions about the various droplet squirmers we have created and studied over the years.
2016/02 Congratulations Arghyadip for winning the APS Distinguished Student Seminar Program award for exceptional undergraduates in physics! Arghyadip will present our work on orientational oscillators at the APS meeting as part of this award.
2016/02 Amit Vutha joins as a postdoc after a PhD with Prof. Martin Golubitsky and lectureship at the Ohio State University.
2016/01 Pawan Nandakishore joins us as a postdoc after finishing his PhD at the Max Planck Institute in Goettingen.
2015/12 Charuhansini and Sankarshan start their rotations in the lab. Welcome aboard guys.
2015/12 Welcome, Anupam Singh - our first PhD student, in collaboration with Madan Rao.
2015/12 Arghyadip Mukherjee, an undergrad at IISc is with us to work on his final year thesis project.
2015/12 The lab officially gets underway at NCBS + ICTS.
2018/03 Good news all around for the lab: the first postdocs transition to jobs and the latest undergraduate gets admissions to grad schools in the US. Amit Vutha accepts a faculty job at the Azim Premji University and Pawan Nandakishore makes a move towards industry with an Insight Data Science Fellowship. Shreyas Gopalakrishnan is all set to travel to Boston for grad school at Harvard later this year.
2018/03 Together with Geert van den Bogaart and Stefano Sacanna, we were just awarded a Young Investigator Grant from the HFSP.
2018/02 Chandan Reddy joins us as a JRF with a fellowship from the DBT.
2017/11 Flow-induced phase separation and the effect of hydrodynamic confinement on collective dynamics in populations of self-propelled particles. Our latest preprint on the arXiv.
2017/09 Bacterial populations as condensed active matter: our recent work on phase transitions underlying bacterial aggregation is now out as a preprint on the arXiv.
2017/08 We have some new entrants in the lab: Manoj Kumar joins our group as a postdoc after finishing his PhD at NCL, Pune in soft matter physics. Vidhya Lakshmi joins as a research fellow after being a JRF at CMC, Vellore. Welcome aboard.
2017/02 Aditya is selected for a Ludwig Prandtl Internship in Gottingen and Charuhansini is selected to attend the Boulder School in Condensed Matter Physics in the summer - congratulations!
2017/02 We welcome two PhD students - Ashwini and Chittaspandini, who is jointly advised by Satyajit Mayor.
2017/01 Kickstarting the second year of our lab, we just got news about the acceptance of our work on public goods production and population dynamics in C. elegans for publication at PNAS!
2016/12 In the upcoming year, we start as a Max Planck Partner Group with the MPI for Dynamics and Self Organization in Gottingen to work on various aspects of self-organization within living matter. Looking forward to some exciting times!
2016/11 This summer, led by Karthik, we went off looking for traces of Kenneth Anderson in the distant memories of some village elders, in villages tucked away among the hilly, green jungles.
2016/08 Exciting new beginnings as the lab space starts taking shape.
2016/08 We welcome Gowtham and Krishnan who start their first rotations in the new grad student season.
2016/08 Pranav and Anurag will work on their final year theses in our lab. Pranav is working on the geometry of flocks and swarms while Anurag is setting up experiments on microbial populations.
2016/07 Amit gave a great talk at ICTS and the group rounded it off with an evening out in town to celebrate.
2016/06 A fun Monsoon School concluded last week with a spontaneous game of Ultimate Frisbee as a light monsoon shower came down.
2016/05 We are organizing the NCBS Monsoon School on the Physics of Life next month.
2017/05 We welcome a new postdoc and bid adieu to the undergraduates in the lab. Godwin Stephenson comes after his PhD at Cambridge University. Anurag, Pranav and Naga Teja are off to grad school- we will miss you guys and good luck on the new shores!
2017/04 This week, we inaugurate our Max Planck Partner Group with a one day symposium bringing together scientists from across institutes in Bangalore.
2017/04 Dr. Jeffrey Philippson starts as a visiting postdoc in our group. We're hoping to kickstart some of our ideas on high-throughput microscopy setups during his time here. A warm welcome, Jeff!
2017/03 Great news from the undergrads in the lab. Anurag and Pranav get into all the top grad school programs in the US - plenty of riches to choose from. Congratulations guys!
2016/05 Hans George joins us to work on his final year undergraduate project. Welcome aboard Hans!
2016/03 Congratulations to Arghyadip for successfully defending his undergraduate thesis. After wrapping up the work with us over the next couple of months, he will head to Dresden to start his PhD with Prof. Frank Juelicher.
2016/03 Prof. Tim Pedley visits our group as part of his Raman Professorship, leading to stimulating discussions about the various droplet squirmers we have created and studied over the years.
2016/02 Congratulations Arghyadip for winning the APS Distinguished Student Seminar Program award for exceptional undergraduates in physics! Arghyadip will present our work on orientational oscillators at the APS meeting as part of this award.
2016/02 Amit Vutha joins as a postdoc after a PhD with Prof. Martin Golubitsky and lectureship at the Ohio State University.
2016/01 Pawan Nandakishore joins us as a postdoc after finishing his PhD at the Max Planck Institute in Goettingen.
2015/12 Charuhansini and Sankarshan start their rotations in the lab. Welcome aboard guys.
2015/12 Welcome, Anupam Singh - our first PhD student, in collaboration with Madan Rao.
2015/12 Arghyadip Mukherjee, an undergrad at IISc is with us to work on his final year thesis project.
2015/12 The lab officially gets underway at NCBS + ICTS.