Partha did B.Sc. in Botany from Fakir Mohan University, Odisha, India and M.Sc. in Biotechnology from North Orissa University, India. Then he worked as a Project Research Fellow at the Center for DNA Fingerprinting (CDFD) Hyderabad. He qualified All-India level eligibility tests CSIR-UGC-NET (2019), GATE (2019) and DBT-JRF (2020). Currently, he is a Ph.D. student and he has received Prime Minister's Research Fellowship for his project on exploring the role of chromatin remodelers in regulating transcriptional switch during yeast meiosis.

Email: bo21resch11003@iith.ac.in

Sheetal did B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Zoology (specialization in Animal Biotechnology) from Kumaun University, Nainital, India. She qualified All-India level eligibility tests CSIR-UGC NET (2020) and GATE (2021). Recently, she joined IIT Hyderabad as a Ph.D. student. She aims to explore the cohesin-ring independent functions of Rec8 during yeast meiosis.

Email: bo21resch11010@iith.ac.in

Nitesh did B.Sc. in Zoology from Sambalpur University, Odisha, India, and M.Sc. in Zoology (specialization in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He was selected for the CSIR-Summer Research Training Program 2020 for a stint of research experience at NEIST, Jorhat, India. He qualified All-India level eligibility tests CSIR-UGC NET (2019) and GATE (2021). Currently, he is a Ph.D. student and he has received Prime Minister's Research Fellowship for his project on the single-molecule dynamics of the cancer therapy targets Aurora kinase B and polo-kinase.

Email: bo21resch11008@iith.ac.in

Akriti earned B.Sc ( Hons.) and M.Sc. in Zoology (specialization in cell and molecular biology) from IIS University, Jaipur, India. She qualified All-India level eligibility test CSIR-UGC NET JRF  (2019) with AIR-89, GATE-XL (2020), and JGEEBILS (2019). Currently, she is a Ph.D. student, developing single molecule imaging and tracking method for quantifying fast dynamics of chromatin remodeler in fission yeast.

 
Email: bo20resch11009@iith.ac.in 

Kirti earned B.Sc. (Hons) Biotechnology from Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India and M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India. She qualified All-India level eligibility tests GATE (2023), IIT JAM (2021), JGEEBILS (2021) and GAT-B (2021). Currently, she is a Ph.D. student, understanding the dynamic interplay between hisotne acetyltransefrase Sas2 and histone deacetylase Sir2 (sirtuin) in yeast S. cerevisiae.

Email: bt23resch11005@iith.ac.in

Rashmi has recently joined the lab with the DST-WISE-Ph.D. fellowship. Prior to joining the lab, she worked at the Regional Center for Biology, Faridabad as a Project JRF. She completed M.Sc. from the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She earned B.Sc. in Life Sciences from CSJM University, Kanpur. She has qualified GATE-XL (2021), DBT-BET (2022), ICMR JRF (2023), and CSIR NET (2023).

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Email: bt24resch11009@iith.ac.in

Dr. Farhan Anjum has recently joined as Research Asscoiate-1. She is involved in the establishment of the National Facility for Single-Molecule and Super-Resolution Imaging at IIT Hyderabad, funded by the DBT-SAHAJ scheme. Before joining the lab, she worked as a Project Associate at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT Mandi).  She earned M. Tech. in Biotechnology from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad (NIT Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh, India, and Ph.D. in Cell Biology and Super Resolution Microscopy from the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT Mandi) Himachal Pradesh, India. She has Qualified GATE-BT (2013) and ICMR SRF (2020). She received several prestigious travel grants (DBT-CTEP 2015, DST-SERB ITS 2022, DBT-CTEP 2022, DST-SERB ITS 2023, and CSIR travel grant 2023) for attending international conferences.

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Email: farhan.anjum@bt.iith.ac.in

Shudhanshu earned B.Tech in Plant Biotechnology from Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj, India. Previously, he worked with NBPGR (National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources), New Delhi, India as Research Assistant. He has qualified AIIEA exam in 2021, and ICAR exa min 2022. Currently, he is perusing M.Tech Medical Biotechnology at IIT Hyderabad. His M.Tech thesis is focussed on understanding the dynamic regulation of meiotic recombination proteins in yeast S. cerevisiae.

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Email: bt23mtech14006@iith.ac.in