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Life Inside the Lab: Collaboration, Community & Celebration
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Spins, Sticks & Science: Dandiya Night with the Lab Fam!
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Lab on the Move: Repping Science at SRM, Chennai
Mithun met Ivan Dikic—instant phosphorylation of excitement!
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Science squad: Where curiosity meets camaraderie
🧪🍕 "From pipettes to plates" a fun lab dinner
August 2023 — Mentor retires, memories don’t. That’s my old bench, 13 years and countless experiments ago!
Lunching into new beginnings...a tasty farewell🍽️💫
All the best, Srishti!
🥳🔬 Not on the protocol, but definitely on the calendar - PI birthday bash!”
Warning: lab banter may continue over appetizers! ⚠️😂🍴
Early days at the new MAHE Bengaluru campus (August 2024)
A visit to Coimbatore: the beautiful Bharathiar University with Maruthamalai hills in the background
The alma mater never ages: the 115-year-old iconic TNAU main building, an example of Indo-Saracenic architecture
An august AG lab meeting, ~30 years in the making (August 2023): Dheeraj Mittal, Chandan Sahi, Surekha Katiyar-Agarwal, Arnab Mukhopadhyay, Sachin Kotak, Ashwini Pareek, Snehlata Singla, Manu Agarwal, Sonia Balyan
Always nostalgic to meet friends. With Harsh and Rahul at the School of Life Sciences, Hyderabad, November 2024
When we hosted the Bengaluru Yeast Biology Club (BYBC) at MIRM (July 2025)
An impromptu lab meeting over coffee!
Swanky new lab!
We love tea and coffee! Welcoming Sanjana to the lab
Bidding farewell to Mahati
Where the cells wait!
Beautiful Bengaluru skies with an equally mesmerizing MAHE Bengaluru campus
A random lab picture
Attending "Dynamics and Evolution of RNA Functions" meeting (https://www.icts.res.in/program/DERF) at ICTS, Bengaluru.
The YouTube link to the talk provides a broad perspective to lab research: https://www.youtube.com/live/QEcEHTfokBw
The lab was a co-organizer of the 13th International Yeast Meeting (https://iym2025.iisc.ac.in/) held from 3-6 December 2025 at IISc, Bengaluru. Wonderful to meet many friends and seniors, including the awesome Chandan Sahi (https://sites.google.com/iiserb.ac.in/sahilab/home?authuser=0)
The first Master's students to graduate from the lab are Nishkamya and Srishti! Glad to host you both in the lab. We wish you all the very best!
RIM 2026 (https://www.rim2026.com/) promises to be an exciting meeting, featuring a stellar lineup of RNA biologists from India and around the world. Our lab is proud to be part of the organizing committee.
A random day in the lab: Chandan: Aman: Prerna.
The camaraderie: Aashish, Mithun, Aman, Chandan, Prerna; we beleive in working together!
Aman was one of the co-organizers of the 13th International RNA India Meeting (https://www.rim2026.com/) held at IISc, Bengaluru, from 27th to 29th April, 2026. The lab was also represented by Prerna, who not only presented a poster but also designed the certificates given at the meeting, showing her prowess both as a researcher and as an artist.