Times of India, News 18 and IANS Live reported the news that IISER Pune and Shiv Nadar University at Delhi-NCR have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborations for scientific research and faculty and student mobility and exchanges. May 18, 2021 ...

There is a time and pace for everything, cytokinesis is no different! In a paper in e-Life, integrated PhD student Swati Sharma and faculty member Dr. Richa Rikhy study the process of cell division and describe how a protein named GRAF regulates the time and pace of actin ring constriction, a pheno...

IISER Pune has ranked 22nd among Indian institutions and also features in the top 2000 institutions across the world, in the Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR) 2021-22. Indian Express, Hindustan Times reported the news. May 4, 2021. ...

Prof. Srinivas Hotha, Dr. Umakant Rapol and Dr. Sunil Nair have been conducting experiments to produce portable and affordable oxygen using easily available chemicals. Indian Express reported. April 27, 2021. ...

The Department of Science and Technology (DST) and IISER Pune have set up a Technology Innovation Hub on Quantum Technologies. Named as the I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation (I-Hub QTF), the technology hub has now been set up as a Section-8 company at IISER Pune. The I-Hub QTF will aim to develop ...

A technology innovation hub by the name I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation (I-Hub QTF) has been set up at IISER Pune as a consortium of various institutes, with funding support from Department of Science and Technology (DST). Indian Express, Swarajya Mag and Greater Kashmir covered the story. Apri...

Dr. Anand Krishnan and his group are studying the birds in the north-eastern states, and have recorded some rare and vulnerable species in Arunachal Pradesh. Arunachal24 and Arunachal Times reported. April 15, 2021. ...

The online inauguration and formal virtual launch of IISER Pune's technology business incubator, Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) - IISER Pune SEED Foundation (AIC-SEED) was held today. A recording of the inauguration event is here.  Dr. R.A. Mashelkar, FRS, National Research Professor, and emi...

An Atal Incubation Centre was established at IISER Pune to support and incubate start-ups was inaugurated at IISER Pune. Indian Express reported. April 9. 2021. ...

Advances in India's supercomputing mission and the role of institutes like IISER Pune in this was reported by The Statesman and India Education Diary. April 8, 2021. ...

Prof. Shyam S. Rai, Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth and Climate Science has received the Raja Ramanna Fellowship for this year. The fellowship, initiated in the year 2000 by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), recognises senior scientists, engineers and technologists involved in ...

Prof. Sanjeev Galande and Dr. Shivaprasad Patil's research paper on the unique somersaulting ability of the tiny freshwater animal, hydra was reported by The Wire, News18. and Research Blaze. April 4, 2021. ...

IISER Pune and Finland's Aalto University are entering into a partnership to build a quantum computer. Analytics India covered the news. March 22, 2021 ...

Indian Express reported the news that Dr. Shabana Khan, faculty member in Chemistry at IISER Pune, received the DST SERB Power Fellowship for 2021. March 19, 2021 ...

Most things are what they are, no matter what their genesis. For calcium though, provenance matters. This is the take-home from a recently published study from Dr. Suhita Nadkarni’s group at IISER Pune in which the team has investigated if and how calcium ions from different sources impact memory ...

In a recent series of papers, Dr. Raghavendra Kikkeri’s group explores the therapeutic potential of heparan sulfate, a linear carbohydrate (polysaccharide) molecule, which is typically found at the cell surface and in the extracellular matrix that holds cells together. Shown to be important...

Prof. Sutirth Dey's research on evolution of dispersal in fruit flies using a locally developed table-top set up was elaborated in an article by Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar. The Wire. March 17, 2021. ...

In a paper in the Biophysical Journal, Dr. Chaitanya Athale’s group described an automated programme to track intracellular granules while viewing the molecules under a differential interference contrast (DIC) microscope. This image-analysis programme will help researchers observe, follow, and stu...

IISER Pune through its Science Activity Centre, celebrated National Science Day 2021 in an online mode in view of the pandemic. Interactions with scientists, film screening, panel discussion, science demonstrations and a showcase of science toys developed by students were organised. Times of India,...

A new outreach initiative planned by IISER Pune which aims to train school teachers from various states of India on use of hands-on and activity based methods of teaching science was reported on, by Hindustan Times February 28, 2021. ...