🎉 Delighted to share our new review in @Nature_NPJ npj Systems Biology and Applications: "Network hypermotifs in biological systems: structure, dynamics, and functional implications"!
How science works according to Nobel Prize winner Thomas Südhof:
Very often, politicians think that you can tell scientists what they’re supposed to discover. You can’t! Scientists don’t know what they are going to discover. They have to try things. They have to have curiosity and ideas, but they also have to have the knowledge to try things. Very often, it leads to nothing; it’s a waste. But we didn’t know when we started it’s a waste. But when something does work. When something clicks, it is exciting and rewarding but it’s never just one click. You get a result on it, you’re hopeful, you build on it. Maybe it’s confirmed you’re even more hopeful. So it’s an incremental process. It is never one thing - boom we discovered a major thing, my god this is it. It is more like walking up a flight of stairs where each step counts and the higher up the stairs you go the better you can see what’s on top and become excited about what’s there and how you can use.
Applications are open for the Computational Biology Summer School 2026 at NCBS, Bengaluru!
📅 5–11 July 2026
📝 Apply by 10 June 2026
A week of hands-on learning in computational biology, bioinformatics, and AI/ML for life sciences.
Hello world, meet 1,000× Expansion Microscopy.
1,000,000,000× expansion by volume! A gel that starts at a few centimeters will then expand to the volume of an Olympic swimming pool. https://t.co/E43kxx4O5M
In our new bioRxiv preprint, work carried out between MIT and UMG, led by Helena Hu in collaboration with scientists from the labs of @eboyden3 Ed Boyden, Silvio Rizzoli, and myself, we present Thousandfold Expansion Microscopy.
By enlarging biological specimens across multiple rounds of expansion, molecular-scale features, as small as the distances between adjacent amino acids, can be visualized with conventional optical microscopes.
Democratizing super-resolution microscopy.
New preprint from the laboratory, with work from Sarang Saini @sarangsaini28
Sarang Saini and Rishikesh Narayanan
HCN channels enhance synchrony propagation in heterogeneous synfire chains
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https://t.co/BbXuhuUMlf
Dept. of Biotechnology at IIT Madras is organizing a hands-on training workshop on Expansion Microscopy from July 20-23. Register soon for this exciting opportunity!
Dept. of Biotechnology, IIT Madras is organizing Workshop on Rheology and Soft Matter Mechanics in collaboration with Anton Paar. Register soon for this exciting hands-on-training opportunity!
Our work on #MitoCatch, a system for targeted delivery of healthy mitochondria to specific cell types is now published in @Nature.
Very grateful to the team and collaborators, especially the first authors, @AyupovTemurkhan, @v_moreno_juan.
📄 Read more: https://t.co/nTtYSejaEM
Synaptic-resolution connectomics: towards large brains and connectomic screening
https://t.co/wbXc489u41
@NatRevNeurosci
Quick summary: Neuronal circuits are the substrate of evolution & experience. In just 20 years, connectomics—powered by 3D EM + AI—has scaled ~1000×, moving from tiny circuits to cortical networks. Next: whole-brain maps across species, revealing how age, disease & behavior reshape the connectome. This rapid progress is now pushing the field toward whole-brain connectomes across species, opening the door to understanding how aging, disease, and behavior dynamically reshape neural architecture.
#connectomics #Synapses #Neuralnetworks #BioAI
Our live tissue clearing paper is out in @naturemethods! We achieved optical clearing of mammalian brain tissues without compromising normal neuronal function. Big congrats to @Shigenori774 and our wonderful collaborators! 🎉
https://t.co/joMB5odihK (1/10)
IIT Madras Department of Biotechnology is actively looking for faculty candidates in the following areas of research. We encourage you to apply and join a vibrant growing community of faculty researchers engaged in active cutting-edge science!
IIT Madras, Dept. of Biotechnology is organizing Advanced Bioimaging Workshop from May 18-20, 2026 with target participants from PhD, Masters, Postdocs and staff scientists. Seats are limited. Submit abstract soon by March 31.
https://t.co/crmOeRSQAa
Applications for @iiscbangalore admissions 2026 are open!
The Molecular Biophysics Unit @MBU_IISc at IISc invites applications for our Ph.D. program. Come join our vibrant research community exploring the fundamental principles that drive living systems.
Deadline: Mar 23, 2026
Happy to announce the 8th BioGroupIndia Meeting 3–4 April 2026, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan.
Founded in 2015 at IIT Kanpur, BioGroup India has grown into an important platform connecting and empowering the Indian life sciences community.
https://t.co/2guMhDEH6Z