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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

🧪🍕 "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!

Warning: lab banter may continue over appetizers! ⚠️😂🍴

A visit to Coimbatore: the beautiful Bharathiar University with Maruthamalai hills in the background

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

Swanky new lab!

We love tea and coffee! Welcoming Sanjana to the lab

Bidding farewell to Mahati

Mithun met Ivan Dikic—instant phosphorylation of excitement!
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Science squad: Where curiosity meets camaraderie

Lunching into new beginnings...a tasty farewell🍽️💫
All the best, Srishti!

🥳🔬 Not on the protocol, but definitely on the calendar - PI birthday bash!”

Early days at the new MAHE Bengaluru campus (August 2024)

The alma mater never ages: the 115-year-old iconic TNAU main building, an example of Indo-Saracenic architecture

When we hosted the Bengaluru Yeast Biology Club (BYBC) at MIRM (July 2025)

An impromptu lab meeting over coffee!

Where the cells wait!

Beautiful Bengaluru skies with 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