News & Updates
2025
​​​​​​​October 17, 2025
Nishana delivered a talk titled "Altered Chromatin Architecture as a Bluepint for Diseases" at the National Seminar on “Recent Advances in Molecular Biology (RAMB 2025)” conducted by the Department of Molecular Biology, Kannur University
October 15-17, 2025
Sreya attended the National Seminar on “Recent Advances in Molecular Biology (RAMB 2025)” conducted by the Department of Molecular Biology, Kannur University, where she presented her research poster
October 9-11, 2025
Nishana delivered a talk titled "Dissecting the Role of Cohesin and CTCF in 3D Genome Organization and Disease" at the "9th Asian Chromatin Meeting" held at IISER Pune
October 9-11, 2025
Nishana, Tiyas and Johna, attended the 9th Asia Chromatin Meeting held at IISER Pune.
September 23, 2025
Azeem delivered his Annual Work Seminar (AWS)
September 9, 2025
Tiyas delivered her Annual Work Seminar (AWS), presenting an overview of her research progress
August 21, 2025
Tiyas clears her JRF to SRF interview! Congratulations Tiyas!
June 15, 2025
Anju, Jyothirmayi, Roshida and Somanghee joins the lab for Major Project (BS-MS and MSc). Welcome to the team!
March 27-28, 2025
Nishana delivered talk titled "Altered three-dimensional chromatin organization as a driver of tumorigenesis" at the "Aspects of Gene and Cellular Regulation Meeting" held at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Madras ​​​​
​​March 10–12, 2025
Azeem took part in RISE for Healthy Aging: Different Perspectives, Collective Action, held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
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February 14, 2025
Sai delivered his Annual Work Seminar (AWS), presenting an overview of his research progress
February 7-10, 2025
Nishana served as a panelist for the PG Student Interactive Session at the 37th Kerala Science Congress (KSC), held at Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur, Kerala.
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January 1, 2025
Welcome Johna and Sreya, our new PhD students, to the Chromatin Biology Lab!
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December 13-17, 2025
Nishana delivered a talk titled "Chromatin Architecture in Crisis: How Altered Organization Drives Disease" at the Chromosome Instability Conference held at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, India
December 13-17th, 2024
Nishana and Tiyas, attended the Chromosome Instability Conference held at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru.
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​October 28, 2024,
Sai clears his JRF to SRF interview! Congratulations Sai! Thank you Prof. Shantanu Chowdhury (IGIB, New Delhi) for being his examiner.
September 17–19, 2024
Azeem participated in the Introduction to Machine Learning in Genomics workshop at IBAB, Bengaluru
September 17, 2024,
M. Nishana delivered a talk titled "A Short Story on Sibling Rivalry Among Two Chromatin Organizer Proteins" at the "Interdisciplinary Aspects of Chromatin Organization and Gene Regulation" conference at ICTS, Bengaluru.
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September 9-20, 2024:
Sai Prasanth is attended the workshop and conference on "Interdisciplinary Aspects of Chromatin Organization and Gene Regulation" at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru
2024
June 7-9, 2024:
Nishana gave a chalk talk at the *Frontiers of DNA and Chromatin Dynamics* meeting at IISER Pune, discussing chromatin dynamics and genome organization.
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June, 2024:
We are excited to welcome our major project students Abhinand, Devi, Barninee and project associate Pavithra. Welcome Guys!
May 24, 2024;
Tiyas delivered a talk on "How to write SOPs and research articles" to MSc students selected from the Kerala State Universities as part of the training event.
May 22, 2024:
We secured the ASPIRE Grant! Thank you from CSIR for funding our research.
March 27, 2024:We have our first book chapter from the lab. Congratulations Tiyas and Azeem.
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March 11–22, 2024
Azeem attended Theoretical approaches in cancer progression and treatment (MATHONCO 2024) at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru ​
March, 2024
Lab construction finished with dedicated students room.
January 19-22, 2024:
Nishana delivered an invited talk on *“Disruption of 3D Chromatin Architecture: Implications in Oncogenesis”* at the IACR Conference, IISER Pune.
September 14-16, 2023:
Nishana gives an invited talk on "Altered three-dimensional chromatin organization as a driver of tumorigenesis" at the “International Conference on Cancer Biology: Molecular Mechanisms, Genomics and Novel Therapeutics” conducted at T.T.J. Auditorium, ICSR, IIT Madras, Chennai.
2023
September 5, 2023:
We have our first grant. Thank you SERB for the Start-up Grant (SERB-SRG)
August 14, 2023:
Nishana gives a talk on “EVERY child is a scientist!!! Want to be a child forever???” for the Higher Secondary School students of St. Teresa's Anglo Indian Girls Higher Secondary School, Kannur, Kerala.
August 11, 2023:
Nishana gives “Dr. K. Surekha Memorial Oration” on "A handful of science (from microbiology to genomics) and a handful of dreams (for those who dare to dream)!!!!” at the Department of Biotechnology and Microbiology, Kannur University, Kerala.
August 1, 2023:
Azeem Khan and Tiyas Sengupta join the lab as PhD students. Welcome guys!
24th to 28th July, 2023:
Naeema attends workshop on "Basic and Advanced Techniques in Immunochemistry and cytochemistry" at National Institute of Animal Biotechnology, Hyderabad.
June 17, 2023:
Nandhu, Naeema and Vishnu joins the lab for Major Project (BS-MS). Welcome to the team!
May 21, 2023:
We launched our website. Thank you Srilakshmi T Ranjith for designing this.
February 14, 2023:
Nishana gives an invited talk on “Order and disorder in the nucleus: how errors and sibling rivalry among the chromatin organizer proteins leads to diseases” as part of the “Science Unlimited talk series” at Yenepoya Research Centre, Mangaluru, Karnataka.
January 18, 2023:
We have our first set of interns join the chorus: Abhinand, Adithyan, Devi keerthana, Malavika, Pooja, Srilakshmi, Subham Pal, Tanmay. Welcome to the team!
January 9-10, 2023:
​Nishana gives an invited talk on “Order and disorder in the nucleus: how errors and sibling rivalry among the chromatin organizer proteins leads to diseases” at the “Chromatin, RNA and Genome Conference 2023” conducted at IISc, Bangalore.
2022
December 19, 2022:
"Refresher & Preparative Winter School (RPWS) - 2022" students visits the lab.
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December 5-9, 2022:
Nishana gives a talk on “Dos and don'ts of research” at the "Science Talent Enrichment Programme (STEP)" for Pratibha scholars of KSCSTE at IISER Thiruvananthapuram.