The D2 Lab

📢Conference alert Ready to dive into how tissues morph across scales & models? 📍Join us by the shores of Mumbai (Alibag) for an EMBO Workshop on Quantitative Tissue Morphogenesis! 📅 Apply by 30 April 2026 🔗 meetings.embo.org/event/26-tissu… #DevBio #Morphogenesis #QuantitativeBiology

The audience and the Sonal’s talk were ‘inseparable’ @SonalNJaiswal14 #indrc2025

Intriguing systemic prepping for infection in response to injury shared by @svetakotak . #indrc2025 has been a treat so far!

We are all set to welcome you at InDRC 2025 at IISER MOHALI. #indrc2025 #iisermohali

Many congratulations to @JustusFrancis4 for the Alan Hall Travel Award by @JCellBiol at Cell Bio 2025, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. @CSIR_IND

Kindly note the change in date of the talk. Below is the updated poster 👇🏽

This work is now published at @PRX_Life. Read the full article here: go.aps.org/4ahFtBE

Great opportunity to learn about various facets of metabolism in development and disease. Please register soon to attend. Seats filling up fast!!!

Sarasij @sarasij123 presenting his poster at his first international conference right here @ccmb_csir #emboccmb25

The approaches used to understand fundamental folding problems were remarkable, at least to outsiders like us! We thought we were being quantitative… but puny compared to biophysicists!

This was truly a majestic talk! Apparently, also out in Nature this week.

We have Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz online, illustrating three significant advancements in imaging technolgy, capable of revealing cellular organisation with atomic level resolution! Insights flowing at #EMBOCCMB25 @EMBO @ccmb_csir

Go Haritha!!

Ever wondered how injuries in tissues such as skeletal muscles are healed? Did you know that dormant stem cells in adults help repair and regenerate these damaged tissues? The Indian Society of Cell Biology, in association with Cactus, invites you to a free webinar on “Quiescent muscle cells are active communicators” led by Prof. Jyotsna Dhawan. Join us as we explore how signals from damaged cells activate the quiescent stem cells and discover how this communication effects the maintenance of tissues. Book your seat now: airmeet.com/e/49c74a60-781… 💸 Registration: FREE for all participants Topic: Quiescent muscle cells are active communicators Speaker: Dr Jyotsna Dhawan, CCMB Hyderabad Moderator: Dr Debdeep Dutta, IIT Kanpur Date: November 15, 2025 Time: 5:30 PM IST Language: English Duration: 1 hour What You Will Learn: ✅The importance of communication between cells to build and maintain skeletal tissues. ✅How complex signals are released in the form of tiny extracellular vesicles called exosomes. ✅How differentiated cells choose from the large number of exosomes released by dormant cells. ✅What our understanding of these quiescent muscle cells means for tissue maintenance. Dr. Jyotsna Dhawan | Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology Dr. Jyotsna Dhawan is an Emeritus Scientist at the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, where she has been a key researcher since 1996. Her work focuses on the cell biology of quiescence and skeletal muscle regeneration. She earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from Boston University School of Medicine and completed her postdoctoral research at Stanford University. With a distinguished career in molecular and cellular biology, she continues to contribute to advancing understanding of muscle stem cell biology. REGISTER TODAY! We look forward to welcoming you to this enriching session! @ccmb_csir @bhupro @Cactusglobal @NitinRammohan @majhi_ra @indian_hydra @saip_pydi @biopatrika @surithakur86 @abandopa @DebdeepDutta21 @ANRF @DBTIndia @bushraiitk @IndiaBioscience @IITKanpur @mfcem_iitk @BSBEIITK1 @ugc_india @CSJM_U

There's an update on the state of FlyBase on the FlyBase.org front page. You can contribute to FlyBase at this link wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:C…. We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us. #FlyBase #Drosophila

Very happy to share our work on diversification dynamics in peninsular India is out in @Ecology_Letters. Thank you @India_Alliance for the support! @ccmb_csir

Excited to share that our study on SanA (a previously uncharacterized protein) is now published! Through comprehensive genetic analyses, we reveal that SanA acts as a negative regulator of peptidoglycan synthesis in the periplasmic space. #peptidoglycan journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

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I have a baby lab! We have some exciting questions on developmental neuroscience. Please apply if interested in joining me