This year, I had the incredible opportunity to spend a semester at Prof. Prasad’s lab (ILPB, @UBuffalo). Thanks to Dr. Pranay Ranjan & Dr. Raviraj for this academic experience. I also recevied IACUC-certified animal training. 🧪❄️🌿 #AcademicExchange #Gratitude #Nanomedicine

Heartfelt thanks to my supervisor Dr. Raviraj Vankayala and Dr. Neha Jain (@Jain_Lab ) for thier unwavering support and guidance, my lab members, @iitjodhpur and to the wonderful new connections I made during the event.

Grateful to have been part of the FCS XV/OWLS 17 conference at @iitbombay from 16-21 November, 2024, where I was honored with a fellowship sponsored by @PicoQuant for the BEST POSTER! Honoured to be the first recipient of the fellowship sponsered by @PicoQuant.

Science is not a career. Science is lifestyle because you might think you are on a road trip with your family, but actually you are thinking about that one research paper that had mind boggling results and that one experiment you didn't understand at the time.

Day 12 #ADSB 2024...last day Dr. Shankar is giving the highlights of the workshop and accomplishments. Two abx producing G+ bacteria! @smanoharan_naan @bsbe_iitj

What's a hands-on course if you don't get your hands dirty on Day one? We profiled our soil samples to type them by various properties, literally getting our hands dirty! Something is cooking, where we get snapshots of soil properties, stay tuned for more !

Day 1 of Antibiotic Discovery from soil bacteria #ADSB2024 with @bacteriophile @bsbe_iitj @iitjodhpur. Our proactive participants had collected distinct soil types from Tamil Nadu in the south to Delhi in the North. From Assam in the East to Rajasthan in the far west.

@bacteriophile Our isolation plates from Day 2 grew plenty of isolates, some already showing antimicrobial activity in a crowded plate. And now, the screening begins to find some antimicrobial producers !

Day 3 of #ADSB2024 @bsbe_iitj @iitjodhpur One of the most awaited experiments of the course: Using the iChip to recover in-situ cultured bacteria. We sampled interesting sites in the IITJ campus to seed our iChips.