Sandhya Koushika
@WormlockHolmes
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Cellular neurobiologist @TIFRScience Mumbai, who loves genetics, live imaging and worms. Science is fun. "Let's go exploring". Sometimes writes poetry.
Mumbai, India
Joined February 2018
Looking forward to this panel discussion at Homi Bhabia Auditorium, Sept 11th, 6.30 pm. Admission is free - registration required. What a terrific chance to listen to experts discuss the impact of climate change on biodiversity and the impact on ecosystems @AvidLearning Please RT
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Interesting
The centriculum, a membrane that surrounds C. elegans centrosomes, acts as a microtubule filter https://t.co/WwmQIhReq1
#biorxiv_cellbio
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Interesting study
Aaron Fountain, Mélanie Mansat, Roberto Botelho and colleagues @TorontoMetSci discover that depletion of endomembrane reservoirs drives phagocytic appetite exhaustion in macrophages. Highlight: https://t.co/ZSehuoOw6x Article: https://t.co/cttUssqawB
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This award aims to highlight outstanding research by active neuroscientists working in countries underrepresented in neuroscience publications and conferences. @network_alba @SfNtweets @IBROorg @FENSorg
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Our worm lab recovering from a mite attack. Trainees devoting hrs to cleanup A mite or two or an army They are hateful and smarmy Our helpless little ones Crushed by their whirling carny Hello give up not Gather all the stock Pick, bleach, clean Burn to death a game well fought
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We study what organelles do - beyond their "textbook" functions - during development and wound healing. Here is a story on how ER morphology shapes cells' response to wound curvature: https://t.co/vuM3jsL9oH .. Details👇.. Thanks @ANRFIndia @shivkuma_k @TIFRH_buzz for support🙏
nature.com
Nature Cell Biology - Rawal et al. combine intracellular cartography and biophysical modelling to reveal how edge curvature governs endoplasmic reticulum (ER) morphology, showing that...
(1/n) Excited to share that my PhD work @tamal_das Lab is now published in @NatureCellBio! How do epithelial cells around a gap sense edge-curvature? We find that the ER acts as a central mechanotransducer, sensing the curvature & guiding cell migration. https://t.co/eTXTBL0LRr
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This is really cool....
WOoo! Hot pre-print alert! 🔥 Our new story shows that neuronal oversight of germline small RNAs prevents sterility & allows lab-domesticated C. elegans to reproduce when temperatures rise. This picture shows how neuronal small RNAs rescue the germline from being messed up (1/2)
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Just wow.
Today I learned you can just spray mRNA on plant leaves and they'll make proteins. New preprint just sprayed a bunch of green florescent protein mRNA on different plant leaves and found signal.
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Read today "Comparison is the thief of Joy" True that
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Intriguing data
🎉🍾Excited to share our #Asgardarchaea #odin #cytoskeleton study published in @embojournal Dual FtsZ proteins in Odinarchaeon form distinct filaments—shedding light on tubulin/FtsZ evolution. Brilliantly led by @Jayantikri23
https://t.co/nhj4xfNM1A
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Incredible work. Do read....
For at least two years, a section of Tamil Nadu’s state machinery has been diligently studying extreme heat – how it manifests, what worsens it, and how it can be alleviated. Read the full news report by @simrin_sirur. @TN_Plan
https://t.co/EkmuUOPmoG
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This paper is really elegant and beautiful. Researchers took a vesicle, filled it with a single type of enzyme and some protein pores, and showed that this "minimal cell," made from just three components (!!), could "actively propel itself toward an enzyme substrate gradient."
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Our dept @TIFR_Bio @TIFRScience ran an MSc by research for ~25yrs. Our last batch graduated this month. Several headed to excellent PhD programs, some to jobs. Congratulations and good luck for many fun adventures. 👏🏾Sohan Seal headed to @mpicbg from my lab. 2nd from L, row 2
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This Sunday, Aug 3 we will have Mr. Jay Deshmukh, a Condensed Matter physicist, also a guitarist and music enthusiast speak on "The Science of Sound, Rhythm, and Harmony" and uncover why we find beauty in harmony. All are Welcome! ⏰11 AM 📍Prithvi Theatre, Juhu
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Interesting study
Neurons are hungry for energy, and carry their own batteries. Excited to share our latest study, on the use of glycogen by neurons as a "capacitors" to support glycolytic plasticity. You can find the article here: https://t.co/oxEUKheJJ1 and press release
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Let's celebrate the joy of asking, seemingly "stupid" questions. The speaker @TifrArnab says "science is not about getting the exact answer – it's about learning to ask the right questions". 11 AM, Jul 20 at Ruparel College, Mumbai
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Marine heatwaves. Vanishing phytoplankton. 12% less rain. @RockSea Dr. Roxy Koll joins @AratiKumarRao and me to talk about what the Indian Ocean is trying to tell us, why we are still not listening, and what the consequences could be: https://t.co/2izhPNsZvg
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Me today!!!
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Multiple PhD tracks to align with student motivation & desired outcome.
See the article below in @Nature titled: "How many PhDs does the world need? Doctoral graduates vastly outnumber jobs in academia". A flawed surmise to begin with. In my opinion, the real issue isn’t about too many PhDs. It is about why people are doing a PhD in the first
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Our July cover ( https://t.co/AgVGWJQmoq) shows a confocal timelapse imaging of #Celegans one-cell embryo expressing fluorescently labeled plasma membrane, microtubules, chromosomes, and ZEN-4, a plus-end directed kinesin motor protein ( https://t.co/qEKKPwk2ea).
@Sachin_mitosis
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