Saravanan Palani
@syncellbiolab
Asst Professor, Dept of Biochemistry, @iiscbangalore Cell biology, Cytoskeleton, Cell cycle, Synthetic biology, Evolution. Alumnus of @UniWarwick|DKFZ|MKU|VIT
Very delighted to see our lab's first paper out in @mSphereJ @ASMicrobiology ALIBY: ALFA Nanobody-Based Toolkit for Imaging and Biochemistry in Yeast. @iiscbangalore @BICS_IISc @YeastClub_Blr journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…
📢 Get ready! The India Yeast Meeting 2025 (IYM 2025), the 13th international conference on fungal biology, is coming to Bangalore! at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru from Dec 3rd-6th, 2025. stay tuned for updates @IYM_2025_IISc #IYM2025 #FungalBiology #yeast
Actin's role in muscle contraction is well-known. But this protein also has lesser-known roles in immune cell activation, neuron signalling & cancer cell growth. IISc scientists are using a variety of approaches to understand these processes. kernel.iisc.ac.in/build-break-an… #IIScresearch
Excited to host the Indo-German Meeting on Cytoskeleton Biology in Health & Disease at @iiscbangalore! 🧬 🗓️ June 3–5, 2025 📍Biochemistry Lecture Hall, IISc A fantastic lineup of talks and cutting-edge science on cytoskeletal dynamics, cell division & disease and more! 🔬🇮🇳🤝🇩🇪
📅 Mark your calendars! Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse from the Francis Crick Institute, London (@TheCrick) will give a talk on "What is Life?" 🗓️ 27. May 2025 🕓 4 pm 🏫 AV Rama Rao Auditorium, Chemical Sciences Building
Actin may run, but they can't hide! @syncellbiolab will find you, expand and image you! Cellular fireworks, @ 4 times the scale. Awesome @syncellbiolab and the team!
Preprint: IntAct-U-ExM enables robust, isoform-specific expansion microscopy of actin networks in yeast and mammalian cells. A cool study led by @anubhav_dhar in collab with @Sudiya14 @deepak_iisc #actin biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
A beautiful array of actin networks in fission yeast visualised through IntAct-U-Exm. Really insightful to work alongside @anubhav_dhar and @syncellbiolab to get this one out.
Many Congrats to @Pulakghosh73 , Apeksha, Bindu, and @SGSrivatsan1 on their insightful new study! Happy to have collaborated on this. @IISERPune @iiscbangalore @serbonline @ANRFIndia
Finally the last piece of my PhD work now in @NAR_Open. We have developed a fluorescent technique to detect the TdT activity. Grateful to my collaborator @syncellbiolab @BinduBhojappa @03Apeksha and my PhD supervisor @SGSrivatsan1 for support.@IISERPune academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…
Asgard archaea & microtubules! 🧬 Pilhofer lab finds eukaryote-like tubulins in Ca.Lokiarchaeum ossiferum. Fascinating story! Microtubules in Asgard archaea: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
Isolated in just 3 years! (Much faster than the 12 years in our previous study). We cultured two strains from 'Hodarcaheales', proposed to be closest to our archaeal ancestors. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
New paper alert!!🎉🥁🚀🎉 Survival of the resistant: When Myxococcus xanthus dies, antibiotic-resistant microbes rise, even without drug exposure. Our manuscript is now online at @CurrentBiology 🚀📕📗 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Huge congrats to @Jayantikri23 & all the award winners at the fantastic M2T2-2025 meeting! 🎉 Thanks to @PS_lab & Swadhin for organizing, and @WormlockHolmes for the awesome live coverage of every talk. 👏 @iitjodhpur #M2T2-2025
Travel awards #M2T22025 @iitjodhpur to several trainees. Congratulations Thank you to the organizers @PS_lab @iitjodhpur & @c_swadhin @NCBS_Bangalore & the many student volunteers from both labs. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Researchers at IISc are looking into the intricacies of cell division which could lead to more effective therapeutics. kernel.iisc.ac.in/when-one-becom… #IIScresearch