Warli painting the size of a football field; November 02, 2014. IISER Pune students created a gigantic Warli painting in an attempt to enter the Limca Book of Records. Local media such as Pune Mirror and The Indian Express reported the news. ...

Pune scientists find new frog species near Amboli; October 01, 2014. The Times of India covered the discovery of a new leaping frog species in Western Ghats region by Dr. Neelesh Dahanukar and team. ...

President Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to IISER Pune on the occasion of its 3rd Convocation Ceremony garnered wide media coverage in The Times of India, IBN Live, Business Standard, ANI News; June 15, 2014. ...

Unique projects dominate ‘Innovative Ideas 2014’; March 16, 2014. Sakal Times reported on ‘Innovative Ideas 2014’ competition organized by the Exciting Science group of NCL and IISER Pune. ...

Vulture conservation: Resolutions passed to restrict mining, quarrying near habitats; February 13, 2014. The Times of India covered the Asian Raptor Conference held at IISER Pune. ...

A fundamental problem studied in Quantum Physics is the behavior of a quantum entity (e.g., electron) in various potentials. Quantum Physics assigns spatial probabilities to the electron at each instant of time. The question that T.S. Mahesh’s group at IISER Pune asked is can one retrieve these s...

IISER Pune students have put up a wonderful show at the CSIR-UGC joint National Eligibility Test (NET) in 2012. Congratulations to all of them!! Students who are selected through CSIR-UGC NET will receive a fellowship to pursue research after completing Master’s degree and the top few rank holder...

Three scientists from IISER Pune—G.V. Pavan Kumar, Sujit Ghosh, and M. Jeganmohan—have been awarded the Indian National Science Academy’s Medals for Young Scientists for 2013. These medals, which will be presented in December this year, recognize promising young investigators in India who have made ...

[caption id="attachment_54" align="alignright" width="300"] Karan Kapoor and Shivprasad Patil with the instrument they have developed to measure rheological properties of fluids.[/caption] Imagine a small glass of water. Imagine the glass to be so small you cannot see it with your naked eyes—a gl...

Neurons or nerve cells are one of the longest cells in the body. They grow in rather precise directions and network with other neurons in order to transfer, integrate and process information. The molecular mechanisms and mechanics behind this defined directionality of neurons is an intriguing area o...

A new porous metal organic framework developed by Sujit Ghosh’s group transforms its structure and displays luminescence based on easily exchangeable anion molecules. This work has been published in a recent issue ofAngewandte Chemie. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous materials and a...

Visualising the genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan; March 09, 2013; Prof. A. Raghuram was involved in the making of a film about the great mathematician. The Indian Express reported on the film. ...

[caption id="attachment_51" align="alignright" width="300"] Image shows a very large coronal mass ejection (CME) blasting off into space on December 2, 2002 (Image Source: SOHO (ESA & NASA))[/caption] Sun, the big bright star that supports life on Earth, can also influence the weather in interpla...

   A new bird species, Bugun Liocichla, was discovered in 2006 by Ramana Athreya, an astronomer by profession and an ecologist on the side. The bird is classified as a vulnerable species, with barely 14 or so individuals spotted so far. Government of India’s Department of Posts has released a com...

As part of its outreach activities, Disha was closely involved in coordinating the Jigyasa Science Camp at IISER Pune during December 18-22, 2012. It was a five-day camp for about 53 students of ninth standard from government schools in Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh. The event was proposed by Bac...

Find below links and/or pdfs for articles that have appeared in the print and online media related to research at IISER Pune and events held at the institute. Discovery of a new leaping frog species in Western Ghats region (Times of India, October 1, 2014);  pdf Asian Raptor Conference (Times ...

Milind Watve’s book Doves, Diplomats and Diabetes challenges the current understanding of diabetes and prods researchers to test his alternative model. Here, Watve chats with us on the origins of his book and of the ideas presented in there. When did the ideas presented in this book originate and...

SATB1, expanded as special AT-rich binding protein 1, has emerged in recent years as an important player in the maintenance of chromatin organization in living cells. This article studies the rise of SATB1 to the status of a global gene regulator and contributions of Prof. Sanjeev Galande, who leads...

IISER Pune researchers address role of fluid dynamics in the mechanism by which nanostructures form, an often overlooked aspect in this area of research. Size becomes important, especially when you are talking about making ever smaller devices which could have applications in electronics, enginee...

Researchers at IISER Pune demonstrate that it is possible to propagate as well as localize light on a v-shaped silver nanowire, a phenomenon that could find application in designing plasmonic circuit elements and nano-optical detectors. Plasmonics is a branch of science dealing with interaction o...