Smarajit Polley
@PolleySmarajit
Protein Kinase, CryoEM, Directed Evolution...let’s have fun in and around science...😊..love photography…📸!..views personal
Admission to Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. Program in Life Sciences and Physical Sciences 2025-26 Adv no: BI/MSc-PhD/07/2025-26. For details, visit the link: jcbose.ac.in/uploads/ADVT/2… #PhD #integrated#Life sciences#Physical sciences
Undruggable ‘disordered’ proteins become druggable with new AI techniques from David Baker. @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Link: jcbose.ac.in/uploads/ADVT/2… @DrJitendraSingh @IndiaDST @PIB_India @KaustuvSanyal
The Most Beautiful Experiment: Meselson and Stahl. Such elegant ingenuity. Logical, robust and beautiful 😍 google.com/search?hl=en-I…
Excited to share that the VOR of our article from @PolleySmarajit lab is finally out! We show that IKK2 exhibits dual specificity and relays phosphate to IκBα via an intriguing mechanism. A fresh perspective on NF-κB signaling. @eLife : doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… Happy reading!
I am happy to share our work on the kinase IKK2/beta reported in @elife: Dual-specific autophosphorylation of kinase IKK2 enables phosphorylation of substrate IκBα through a phosphoenzyme intermediate doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… @PolleySmarajit 1/2
A discovery that changed cancer treatment—by chance! In 1979, while studying tumor viruses at Salk, Tony Hunter stumbled upon something big: a molecular “switch” called tyrosine phosphorylation that controls how cells grow and divide. That accidental find sparked a revolution in…
Last journey of Tamanna Khatun, the class four girl of a migrant labour of Kaliganj. #TMCJungleRaj #WestBengal #Tamanna #KaliganjBypoll
Is it time to tame the brain’s fire? Neuroinflammation is emerging across Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, neurodegeneration and beyond. An important new Science article from Shi and colleagues pulls back the curtain on neuroinflammation. Could this be a silent driver of destruction in…
Woah! Such an important study published in Nature today! Quick thread with some of their key figures! 🧵
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For a long time, researchers were waiting for the call of the erstwhile SERB's PI-driven Core Research Grant. The wait is finally over. ANRF now announces a much better and restructured version with more flexibility and enhanced funding. The Advanced Research Grant (ARG) call…
In 2024 a whistleblower, Sam Salehpour, an engineer with Boeing, alleged that the company has taken shortcuts in manufacturing the Dreamliner 787 and as the aircrafts ages the risks will become “catastrophic”. #planecrash cnn.com/2024/04/09/bus…
This is a major step taken under the visionary leadership of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi ji with the guidance of Hon’ble Minister @DrJitendraSingh ji signalling the acceleration in the era of Modi 3.0. It would be transformative for the entire research ecosystem…
Here is a heartening news and a major breakthrough for young aspiring #StartUps, Innovators and Researchers: In a landmark step enabling #EaseOfDoingResearch, the GFR rules have been simplified for procurement of scientific equipment and consumables. This will reduce delays,…