Mallica Pandya

PhD student @Charras lab UCL studying tissue shapes using optogenetics

[Mayank Chugh (he/him) @mayank_mchugh]

📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n

https://t.co/0PyvvH7fGM

[Mallica Pandya @PandaMalli]

@gargniha Congrats!

[Mallica Pandya @PandaMalli]

@roshni_ann @VAzuaralab @t_rayon Congratulations Roshni!🎊

[Tom Ellis @ProfTomEllis]

Our national centre for BioDesign Engineering has 12 new synthetic biology PhD places on offer for Oct 2023 start, with projects at Imperial, Manchester and UCL. Check out the list here and how to apply: https://t.co/9cm5NHSAGp #synbio please RT

[Mallica Pandya @PandaMalli]

Christmas celebration with the lab!

[Taponlab @taponlab]

World, we give you Dr Höfs! So proud of our @WindieHoefs, who successfully defended her thesis yesterday 🎉🎉🎉
Windie did beautiful work with ours and the @G_Charras lab, uncovering the roles of cell-cell and cell-ECM interactions in YAP mechanical regulation 👩🏾‍🎓

[Miki Ebisuya @EbisuyaMiki]

New paper from the lab!
We developed an optogenetic tool, OptoShroom3, to induce apical constriction in illuminated cells(left).
By controlling cell shapes, OptoShroom3 can induce tissue shape changes, including lumen shrinkage of neural organoids(right).
https://t.co/CL2Sj8e4lR

[Tanya Shreedhar @TanyaShreedhar]

I have been waiting for my #ATAS certificate which should arrive in 20-30 days for more than 3 months now! I was supposed to join as a postdoc at @EdinburghUni on Aug 1. There is no response to follow up emails. Can we get atleast a status update @FCDOGovUK ? @research_uk @GOVUK

[Mallica Pandya @PandaMalli]

@FCDOGovUK I'm still waiting for ATAS after 3 months and have not heard back at all. I am one of many students facing this huge delay. The least you can do is give us a real timeline since it's obviously past 30 working days written on your website. Absolutely frustrating

[Mallica Pandya @PandaMalli]

@MichaelRaissig @danzhanghappy @TiagoDanielGN @roxy_spi @XinCheng0521 @lbmountain @HeikeLindner @PaolaRuizDuart1 @pratika_agarwal Congratulations!!🎉🎉

[Manasi Kelkar @manasikelkar09]

Super happy to see our paper on spindle orientation and cortical mechanics finally out! Thank you to all authors Pierre Bohec, Matt Smith, Emma Ferber, @varunsreeni @ana_lisica @BaumBuzz @GSalbreux and @G_Charras
See more here 👇
https://t.co/FlCNheULox
A🧵to follow

[Miki Ebisuya @EbisuyaMiki]

New paper from the lab!
We developed a novel human organoid that periodically forms somite-like structures. The spheroid of human iPS cells elongates and starts forming pairs of somites according to the segmentation clock.
https://t.co/fR2gLrG8XR
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[Manasi Kelkar @manasikelkar09]

Super happy to share our latest preprint and my post-doctoral work from @G_Charras lab! In collaboration with Pierre Bohec, Matthew Smith, Ana Lisica, Emma Ferber, @varunsreeni, @lab_baum and @GSalbreux.

https://t.co/DC1ubuPe2s

[Mallica Pandya @PandaMalli]

@Rashiagarwal97 @FeijooCarmen Congrats Rashi!

[Mallica Pandya @PandaMalli]

Just stopped myself from getting involved in an argument with some people I overheard on the tube saying "Cell membranes, Biomolecules and Nucleotides- gross!" They were a group of teenagers so I let them go :p

[Mallica Pandya @PandaMalli]

This is far from encouraging open access

[Nature Neuroscience @NatureNeuro]

In this scenario, the cost of publication is covered by an Article Processing Charge (APC) paid at the time of publication. The APC for Nature Neuroscience in 2022 is €9,500/US $11,390/£8,290.

[Mallica Pandya @PandaMalli]

@saimanasanc Wow! Congrats Manasa!

[Mallica Pandya @PandaMalli]

@Ganesh_Classy Hi, yes I received it on 8th October. It took 8weeks. Are you waiting for yours? Just keep mailing your uni to follow up with atas

[Mallica Pandya @PandaMalli]

@AkinboteAkinola Congrats Akinola!

[Mallica Pandya @PandaMalli]

@Tapan90239266 @GOVUK Not yet!!!

[Mallica Pandya @PandaMalli]

@GOVUK Its been 30 working days and I am still waiting for my ATAS clearance! I am already going to face a significant delay in joining my MRes course, and not having received a decision on my ATAS is making me quite anxious! ATAS ref no 294885. Please help!