
Laboratory of Chromosome Dynamics and Gene Regulation
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Principal Investigator
Dr. Gunjan Mehta, Ph.D.
Current Lab Members
Partha Dey
Ph.D. Student, PMRF: Prime Minister's Research Fellow
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 Paliwal
Ph.D. Student
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 Kumar Podh
Ph.D. Student, PMRF: Prime Minister's Research Fellow
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 Garg
Ph.D Student
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
Swarangi Shailesh Tambat
M.Tech Project Student
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
Ayan Das
Project Associate I
Ayan did his M.Tech in Medical Biotechnology from IIT Hyderabad. As part of his M.Tech thesis, he developed a data analysis pipeline for the Single-Molecule Tracking of a cancer therapy target Aurora Kinase B in live yeast cells. Now he is working as a Project Associate I for the DBT funded project “Elucidating the role of chromatin remodeler in yeast meiosis, especially in meiotic recombination, chromosomal segregation and transcription of meiosis specific genes". Ayan did his B.Tech from Techno India University, West Bengal. He did several internships prior joining IIT Hyderabad. He was selected as an IAS (Indian Academy of Science) summer research fellow at THSTI, Faridabad (2018). He worked as a summer research student at CSIR-IICB (2019). He was a project student at IIT Indore (2020).
Email: ayand0243@gmail.com
Lab Alumni
Aditya Subramanian
M.Tech Project Student (2022-2023)
Aditya completed his M.Tech thesis from the lab of Chromosome Dynamics and Gene Regulation. His thesis was focused on understanding the role of chromatin remodelers in meiotic chromosome segregation.
Current Position: After completing his Master's degree from IIT Hyderabad, he moved to The University of Alabama, USA for his Doctoral studies.
Email: subramaa@uab.edu
Sarah Nawaz
M.Tech Project Student (2022-2023)
Sarah completed her M.Tech thesis from the lab of Chromosome Dynamics and Gene Regulation. Her thesis was focused on exploring the role of CHD1 family chromatin remodelers in yeast meiosis.
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Email: bo21mtech11001@iith.ac.in