Siddhesh Kamat
@KamatLab_IISER
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Professor/Chemical Biologist @IISERPune. Tweeting in personal capacity
Pune, India
Joined October 2017
Congratulations Team India, great going !!! Fantastic performance at the International Chemistry Olympiad. Great effort @HBCSE_TIFR as always. Also, good to see @IISERPune's @NeerDash, who was an integral part of this year's contingent :).
Big cheers for Team India at the 57th International Chemistry Olympiad 2025 held in Dubai, UAE from July 5–14. India bags 2 Golds and 2 Silvers, securing 6th place in the overall medals tally among 90 countries and 354 participants! Congratulations to the entire team! 1/4
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A collaborative paper with Manjula Reddy’s lab @ccmb_csir led by @shambhavi_garde is now online @PNASNews. @aakash0308 from our lab @IISERPune contributed with some LC-MS experiments reported in this study.
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Peptidoglycan (PG), a defining feature of the bacterial cell envelope, is crucial for cell integrity and morphology. PG is a macromolecular mesh co...
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New paper from our lab @IISERPune led by @karthikgs24 & @amolm04, helped by @the_dope_drug, @ArchitDevarajan & Anisha, on developing a bifunctional lipid probe & chemical proteomics on mapping protein ligands for MAG lipids. @Hari_Chakrapani @CommsChem .
nature.com
Communications Chemistry - Signaling lipids play crucial roles in mammalian physiology, yet some classes remain poorly understood. Here, the authors synthesize a bifunctional monoacylglycerol (MAG)...
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Collaborative paper with @rajesh_gokhale's lab @NImmunology led by @RashmiB03 now online at ACS Chemical Biology. Nice LC-MS work done by @ArnabChaks from our lab @IISERPune in identifying various kupyaphore degradation products in this study.
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Metallophores are essential for metal homeostasis, regulating availability, and mediating host–pathogen interactions. Kupyaphores are specialized metallophores produced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis...
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Lab alumni, @SHUBHAM30642626 starts (from Sept 2025) his research group @bcmhouston at the Texas Children Hospital. His lab aims to delineate lysosomal lipid metabolism and diseases associated with their dysfunction. He will be recruiting postdocs soon !!!. #proudofalumni
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Wonderful to see this pic of @ArnabChaks from our lab @IISERPune receiving the "Xytel Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in Biology" for the year 2025 at the convocation ceremony yesterday from @shekhar_mande in the presence of @rameshmashelkar
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Congratulations @karthikgs24, @ArnabChaks & @Kundan703 (in spirit) on receiving your Ph.D. degree today !!!. Congratulations @ArnabChaks on receiving the "Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in Biology" !!!. Best wishes to all those from @IISERPune who also received their degrees today.
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Yesterday, @aakash0308 & @the_dope_drug from our lab @IISERPune gave a joint fantastic public science talk on the enigma around fats & its role in humans at a @pintofscience @pintsworld event in the Orange Book cafe, Aundh.
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Congratulations @JyotsnaSingh494 from our lab @IISERPune on receiving the Best Poster prize at the “Organellar communication in health and disease” meeting organized by @CellPressNews. Thanks @EMBO @EMBO_YIP for funding this for Jyotsna.
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RT @aakash0308: Come and join me and @the_dope_drug tomorrow (May 21) at the Orange Book Cafe, Aundh to discover about fats and their fasci….
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Spot on @Amul_Coop. Proud to be an Indian, and particularly every single personnel of our armed forces @adgpi @IAF_MCC and @IndiannavyMedia. Thank you for all the sacrifices you make/are making for the nation 🙏 Jai Hind 🙏
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RT @IISERPune: .#IISERPune salutes our armed forces for carrying out Operation Sindoor with precision to ensure national security. We expre….
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RT @Sankar_Lab: We are back again!✌️ Our latest work in @elife reveals the long-lost evolutionary origin of the DAG-PKC signaling pathway r….
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Happy to end this year’s cricket season by winning the “Research Premier League” played between 8 research institutes in Pune. Team @IISERPune successfully defended our title against ARAI in this year’s final. Well played everyone!!!
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RT @IISERPune: Dr. Siddhesh Kamat from Dept of Biology at #IISERPune was conferred with the prestigious Loksatta Tarun Tejankit Award for t….
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A collaborative paper with @chandri52599020's lab recently published in @BiochemistryACS featured on the cover of the current issue. Cover art by Atanu. Link to paper:
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Congratulations to @ArnabChaks for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis. Arnab is the 8th Ph.D. student from our lab @IISERPune. Thanks for all the wonderful contributions you have made to our lab. Best wishes Arnab in all future endeavours !!!
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Thanks @EMBO @EMBO_YIP for enabling the 1st Indian PI sectoral meeting @IIT_Mandi organized by @baskarb11. Two terrific days of science in a beautiful campus amidst beautiful surroundings.
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RT @NGKabra: Pune Knowledge on Tap returns on 24th April, with Infosys Prize winner Siddhesh Kamat on @IISERPune will talk about his lab's….
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