Plant & Insect Biology Lab

Activities

Ms. Srushti Bhagwat has been Awarded with Junior Research Fellowship from Lady Tata Memorial Trust (24th July 2023)

Heartiest Congratulations!!!

Ms. Srushti Bhagwat has joined the plant and insect biology lab as a Ph.D. student in May 2022. She has been working on the antifungal activity of modified defensin peptides. For the similar line of work she has been awarded as a Junior Research Scholar position by  Lady Tata Memorial Trust. 

Dr. Vaijayanti Tamhane’s visit to Weizmann Institute of Science as a SERB SIRE fellow (Nov 22- April 23)

Dr. Vaijayanti Tamhane received the SERB SIRE fellowship which gave her an opportunity for 6 month research project at @Prof. Asaph Aharoni Lab, Department of Plant and Environmental Science, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel.

International Conference on ‘Plant Genetic Engineering and Genome Editing’

Supriya Acharya bagged  First Prize in Oral Presentation at International Conference on ‘Plant Genetic Engineering and Genome Editing’ (29th Oct 2022) at Central University Kerala, India.

R for Omics Data Analysis (21st to 23rd June 2022)

As a part of SERB CRG SSR initiative, we organized a three-day workshop “R for Omics Data Analysis” in collaboration with the Department of Statistics, SPPU on 21st to 23rd June 2022. More than 65+ faculty members and students joined from all over Pune in offline mode, whereas 100+ joined through online mode.