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

Kirti did 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 working towards exploring single molecule dynamics of chromatin modifiers (readers, writers, erasers).

Email: bt23resch11005@iith.ac.in

Akriti did 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 working towards exploring single molecule dynamics of chromatin remodeler in fission yeast.

 
Email: bo20resch11009@iith.ac.in 

Swarangi has earned her B.Tech Degree in Biotechnology from D.Y Patil University,School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Navi Mumbai, India. She qualified GATE BT,2022, and IIT JAM, 2022, and is currently pursuing her M.Tech degree in Medical Biotechnology at IIT Hyderabad. Her M.Tech thesis is focused on understanding the role of chromatin remodelers in yeast meiosis.

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Email: bo22mtech14002@iith.ac.in

Rashmi is Project Associate - I for the DBT-sponsored project “Elucidating the role of chromatin remodelers in yeast meiosis, especially in meiotic recombination, chromosome segregation and transcription of meiosis-specific genes".

Prior to joining Dr. Mehta's Lab, Rashmi was associated with the Regional Center for Biology, Faridabad as a Project JRF, which she joined after gaining specialization in Yeast Genetics during her M.Sc. at the School of Life Sciences, Jawahar Lal Nehru University. She holds a B.Sc. in Life Sciences from CSJM University, Kanpur, and has qualified GATE-XL (2021), DBT-BET (2022), ICMR JRF (2023), and CSIR NET (2023).

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Email: rashmi.yadav@bt.iith.ac.in