Athale Lab

Giant Udgaonkar

Jayant Udgaonkar celebration of science and fun #iiserpune #science #proteins

This week @universitypress.cambridge.org has granted free access to all titles in the collection of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, edited by Grant Ramsey. There are many options to choose from! Happy reading! 📕👇 www.cambridge.org/core/publica... #philsci #HPbio #evosky #ISHPSSB2025

#Art for the day

Smells like a new instrument #plasma #cleaner finally!

Exciting results #actin #microtubule crosstalk

I agree. One of the best #alphafold #tutorials I've come accross

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Human macrophages secrete both interferon α and interferon β protein during infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.17.665294v1

3D printing a stage holder ... Always fun to see a robot #iiserpune #OpenSource #instruments

The power and potential of Wikidata for botany | Te Papa’s Blog A new paper entitled Wikidata for Botanists: Benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data has been published in the Annals of Botany. This publication is the result of a collaboration of …

Have a look at this blog post about our new article "Wikidata for botanists: Benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data" with @siobhanleachman.bsky.social, @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social and Heidi Meudt: blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2025/07/14/t... #Wikidata #LOD #botany

Registrations are Open for the Rigi Workshop 2026, which I'm happy to co-organise with @michaelraissig.bsky.social

"Endless Forms Most Beautiful"

This is primarily intended for PhDs & Postdocs.
Only 30 spots available! So think fast !

#Cell #Biology #ProtistsOnSky

LINK: scnat.ch/en/uuid/i/aa...

Ich kriege Tränen von Glück und bisschen Neid...

@simonereber.bsky.social was super to visit your lab. amazingly stimulating discussions. thank you for the lovely time. didn't manage to meet the frogs. next time hopefully.

#selfie_in_a_bookshop #pune

One protein, two opposing roles: This ‘compelling’ study shows how the same signalling molecule can drive either protrusion or retraction in migrating cells depending on its concentration and activation dynamics.
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Are you looking for a postdoc?
I will be looking for 2-4 people after the summer to join the lab !!
Do not hesitate to reach out and disseminate !!

The #MembraneTrafficking online seminars are back this Thursday (June 26th, 5pm CEST). We'll hear from @jnuechel.bsky.social about how to find the right partner for a TANGO, and from Maohan Su about the organizational principles of the Golgi. @ishier.bsky.social @franbottanelli.bsky.social

#Pune Knowledge Cluster is organizing "an International #CitizenScience Conclave"
5th July | Citizen Science Expert Dialogue
6th July | Citizen Science Expo: public exhibition

#science_buddy and reminds me of the (made up) chemistry between Sherlock and Watson

#selfie_in_a_bookshop #frankfurt #hauptbahnhof

In meinem Kopf ist ein Rupee 100 Euros, 100 USDollars und 100 Brit Pfunde. Ist aber gar nicht so...

#Friday13th

Fume hood exhausts and the lab by sunset #iiserpune #pune #monsoon

On the one hand anything we can do to improve scientific integrity by trained scientists is good. But to create witchhunts and set this open to trolls .. some in power .. I wonder 🤔

How to spot suspicious papers: a sleuthing guide for scientists An open collection of tips and tools could help researchers and publishers to pick up on problematic research.

Science is in my opinion not unlike a detective plot. A mystery of our creation, that we endeavour to solve. And learn something new for all of humanity. So im conflicted when I see the Junior Detective 🫆 kit for scientific fraud from COSIG.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ahh, to have a boat....

Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities In natural habitats, nutrient availability limits bacterial growth. We discovered that bacteria can overcome this limitation by acquiring nutrients by lysing neighboring cells through contact-dependen...

Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#MicroSKy #Microbiology

Inkscape plugin to rescale figures without distorting the text, and other useful features!
github.com/burghoff/Sci...

Synthetic biology could enable new types of programmable therapeutics. Our new preprint introduces synthetic protein circuits that selectively trigger cell death in Ras-mutant cancer cells, with interesting advantages compared to existing approaches.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...