Happy Golgi Day

I am happy to let you know that Avneesh and Ridhima have completed their project to measure fluctuations in soft materials to extract the bending rigidity. @avneesh71.bsky.social @iamsinghridima.bsky.social

Please use/share the link and cite our Zenodo reference.
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Thanks, See you.

Congratulations, Dr. Garvita, on obtaining your PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Nagma Parveen at IIT Kanpur, Department of Chemistry. I also extend my gratitude to everyone for their interactions.

Poster day!

Seminar held by the Ashoka University, Conversations across Soft Matter & Biophysics, March 2026. Thanks to the organizers and the audiences. sites.google.com/.../smbp-con...

Available projects

bhattri.github.io/Biophysics/i...

Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds Insects that tuck away wings; a protist with an accordion-like neck — studying these clever creases may inspire foldable structures for drones

Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds
🧪 #Scicomm #Nature
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

A Low-Cost, Self-Driving Microscope Could Speed Up Infection Diagnostics Engineer Manu Prakash helped develop a malaria-finding microscope that works in low-resource settings, improving access to sensitive infectious disease diagnostics.

“.global catastrophe since many incredible programs are not currently being funded. Parasites don’t carry passports. Diseases spread across countries, so being able to survey & address these pathogens in one part of the world benefits public health everywhere.”

www.the-scientist.com/a-low-cost-s...

Sharing our recent review with @ranjithpa.bsky.social on polymer models of chromatin

Polymer simulations of chromatin: connecting 3D organization and dynamics to function 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧵 (1/6)
#Chromatin #GenomeArchitecture #PolymerPhysics #ComputationalBiology

G. N. Ramachandran Day will be celebrated on 11 March 2026 at Franklin Hall, School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. Two talks will be held online.

Prof. Pomorski and his team visited IISER-Mohali and were also interviewed by the Manthan Times.
Acknowledgments: DBT, DST-DAAD.
[Nikita, Tanmay, Deniz, Harshmeet, Rajni, Balaram, and Prof. Pomorski at Sukhna Lake, Chandigarh]

CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh, held the one-day workshop CODE-TR 2025: Co-Design for Translational Research on September 1, 2025. Congratulations to Shuchita, Harshmeet, and Rajni Kudawla for their novel idea proposal.
PC: Vikas Shaw

ISMC 2026 Mini School is officially inviting applications.

🌟 3 Themes:
Microscopy & Imaging.
Active Matter.
Computational Soft Matter.

🔗 Apply here: lnkd.in/gVuSHNU4
📅 Dates: 22-24 May 2026

Generation of Bilayer Asymmetry and Membrane Curvature by the Sugar-Cleaving... by Tripta Bhatia YouTube video by International Centre for Theoretical Sciences

8TH INDIAN STATISTICAL PHYSICS COMMUNITY MEETING
DATE: 01 February 2023 to 03 February 2023
VENUE: Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bengaluru
Thanks to the Organizers.
Published work @ chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/44ADTG...

Talk link: youtu.be/d9H_Y2zWlzY

Apply now for the Max Planck Foundation start-up school and learn how to transform research into real-world application. June 3-5 @mpi-cbg.de! startupinitiative.maxplanckfoundation.org/en/start-up-...

Visited the Raghveer Singh Freedom Fighter PM SHRI GHS, Amloh Road, Khanna (Ludhiana) as part of a State Council of Educational Research and Training initiative by Punjab's Department of School Education. Thanks to IISER Mohali, Headmaster Prof. Singh, Mrs. Rashmi Manora, and the school team.

Rajni presented her thesis work at the International Soft Matter Conference in Greece, supported by ANRF travel funding. Thanks to Rajni.
🔗 ismc2025.org
#ISMC2025 #softmatter #scienceconference #biomaterials
#physics #Crete2025 #research #innovations #ScientificCommunity #ANRFIndia

The biophysics lab
[ bhattri.github.io/Biophysics/p... ]
has openings for
Two PhD candidates, preferably those with a Junior Research Fellowship (JRF).

Announcement
www.iisermohali.ac.in/.../admissio....
Application portal
erp.iisermohali.ac.in/OnlineApplic...

As part of fostering a positive environment in Science Communication, I am sharing with you the poster, which features a comic addressing Imposter Syndrome and Implicit Bias.

Palaash, Aaradhya, and Arya (from left to right) presented their poster titled "Optical Encoder Enabled Micro-Level Translational Motion Control" at IISER-MOHALI's Science Fest for the Biophysics Lab. Thanks to them.

Keshav and Avneesh presented their poster today at the Science Fest held at IISER-MOHALI, representing the Biophysics Lab. Thanks to both. @avneesh71.bsky.social @Keshav

Thrilled to announce that this work has been published in the journal Physical Review Letters. 😃

journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Students' group

The Guest

Today, we attended the department seminar delivered by Professor Nitin Kumar from IIT Bombay, titled "Exploring the Physics of Living Systems Using Programmable Self-Propelled Robots."

Josep Rizo and colleagues share their Hypothesis articles on the local detergent model of SNARE-mediated membrane fusion and on the lever model of synaptotagmin-1 function.

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Why can axolotls regrow limbs, but humans can’t?

New work shows regeneration depends on cells from all sides of the limb coordinating their positional memories.

🔗 buff.ly/IPRgJYI

William H. Foege, Key Figure in the Eradication of Smallpox, Dies at 89

We lost a giant in public health today.

Dr. William H. Foege helped eradicate #smallpox - the only human disease ever eliminated—through science, surveillance, and vaccines.

His legacy is the antidote to today’s antiscience, anti-vaccine rhetoric.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

P4: First day of the Science Communication course. Happy Pongal, everyone!

Attended the GIAN course "Lipid Membranes : From Cells to Synthetic Biology" at IISER Mohali.

An amazing lecture series by Prof. Dr. T.G. Pomorski, Dr. Tripta Bhatia, Dr. Abhishek Chaudhari, Dr. Sarbari Bhattacharya, and Dr. Dipanjan Chakrobarty.

P3: Just a group picture before the group meeting. Congratulations to Shuchita for SRF.