Dhananjay Chaturvedi

📢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

Please save the date. 26th Biennial meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience (ISDN2027) happening in our very own @jncasr. Stay tuned for exciting program announcement and others deadlines

Passing thought after lots of talk about molecular evolution: is it enough to document variation even up to function, without positing a plausible selection pressure? It’s hard, constrained by information and imagination, but likely a worthwhile endeavor.

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

It’ll be Messi/y inside/outside Uppal Stadium.

Isn’t this a gorgeous cover? Thrilled to see our work on how Aurora A shapes spindle-pole material properties featured on The EMBO J cover! Huge thanks to the @embojournal team, and to @AdhikaryKuheli & @madhubala98 for crafting these stunning images. doi.org/10.1038/s44318…

“ He makes the Sitar sing.” True dat! @SPKSitar #emboccmb25

That was such a nice talk @Amanjsingh1996 ! Great new insights on stress granules and the RNA in/outside them! @MIRM_blr #emboccmb25

When the chair of a session at a conference mispronounces a speaker’s name, and follows up with “There are multiple ways of pronouncing a name.” : 🤦‍♂️

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

Many congratulations to K Thangaraj for the Vigyan Shri Award for his long standing contributions to Biological Sciences. @CSIR_IND

While reading for a piece I am writing for @shaastra on the evolution of Cetacea (whales, dolphins, porpoises, etc), I came across the work of A. Ranga Rao, a geologist at the Oil and Natural Gas Commission ( ONGC). I had heard of the work, but not of Ranga Rao. The discoveries of the fossils that led to an understanding of the origins of whales have interesting connections to Pakistan and India (and also Indira Gandhi)

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Please mark your calendar for the InDRC 2025. Registration and abstract submission opening SOON! Gear up Fly Folks for the three days of immersive science and networking.

We have a Project Associate position on an ANRF project aiming at analyzing the single-molecule dynamics of functional RNAs in the LLPS environment. If you are interested in RNA biophysics, biochemistry or LLPS, please apply! Deadline: 20th July sites.google.com/view/functiona…

I did my Post-Doc in India. The right lab and environment really helped! We hope to offer that to you, if you’re interested. Do get in touch for this application with a CV and questions you’d like to address.

Professor Ben-Zion "Benny" Shilo (1951-2025) A deep scientist and a radiator of warmth and empathy. An observer of India’s beauty and a friend of the country.

If you do well, we do well, you do well, we do well in a virtuous circle. Do apply to this position.

IMPORTANT Update: We would also consider applicants with GATE ecology and Evolution! Application Deadline: 14th April 2025.

@RGopurappilly @GaitiHasan Congratulations!

Happy and excited to share that our paper has been published and now available online! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jn… Our study demonstrates the presence of subtle phenotypes in induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from young-onset Parkinson's disease (PD) patients.