Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science
Find Out MoreA part of the Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, the Cytomotors Lab is led by Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan. The interest of the lab lies in the study of the cytoskeleton and associated proteins during various cellular processes, using a combination of high time-resolution live cell microscopy and general cell and molecular biology techniques.
Principal Investigator
Wellcome Trust/DBT-India Alliance Intermediate Fellow,
EMBO Young Investigator
(CV)
B.E. (Chem. Engg.), VNIT Nagpur
PhD student
B.E. (Chem. Engg.), BITS Pilani
M. Tech. (Chemistry), Kyoto University
PhD student
B.Tech. (Biotech.), Vellore Institute of Technology
PhD student
B. E. (Biotech.), M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Junior Research Fellow
Anand Sankar (Project Assistant, Aug 2018-Sept 2018) |
Reshma Raj (Project Assistant, Aug 2017-Aug 2018) |
Elsa Barron (SN Bose Summer Scholar, Jun 2018-Aug 2018) Current position: (Bio. Sci.), University of Notre Dame, USA (ongoing) |
Aditya Jeevannavar (BEST Summer Trainee, May 2018-July 2018) Current position: B.S./M.S. (Bio. Sci.), IIT Madras (ongoing) |
Kritika Mehta (Junior Research Fellow, July 2017-July 2018) Current position: Ph.D. student, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
Rishabh Singh (Research Assistant, July 2017-June 2018) Current position: M.Tech. Biomedical Engineering, Boston University |
Keval Pandya (BEST+ Summer Intern, May 2017-May 2017) Current position: M.B.B.S., CMC Vellore (Ongoing) |
Manish Ayushman (BEST Summer Intern, May 2017-July 2017) Current position: B.E. Chemical Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur (Ongoing) |
Stephen Sukumar (Research Assistant, July 2016-July 2017) Current position: PhD student at Justus Liebig Universitat, Geissen, Germany |
Ashwini Ravi (Project Assistant July 2015-July 2017) Current position: PhD student at Bangalore University |
Parth Sharma (MBBS Summer Training Student, May 2017) Current position: M.B.B.S, Christian Medical College, Vellore (Ongoing) |
Dr. Tirthankar Sengupta (Research Associate, Sept 2016 - Nov 2017) |
Amoolya Girish (Research Intern, part-time, Sept 2016-Dec 2016) |
Jerrin Mathew Thankachan (Junior Research Fellow, July 2015-June 2016) Current position: PhD student at the Subba Rao Lab, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. |
Milind Singh (BEST Summer Intern, May 2015-June 2015) Current position: PhD student at Yale University |
Mehta and Ananthanarayanan*, 'Cortical tethering of mitochondria by the dynein anchor Mcp5 enables uniparental mitochondrial inheritance during fission yeast meiosis', bioRxiv (2019) [ pdf]
Mehta, Chacko, Chug, Jhunjhunwala and Ananthanarayanan*, 'Association of mitochondria with microtubules inhibits mitochondrial fission by precluding assembly of the fission protein Dnm1', Journal of Biological Chemistry (2019) [ pdf]
Thankachan, Nuthalapati, Tirumala and Ananthanarayanan*, 'Fission Yeast Myosin I Facilitates PI(4,5)P 2-mediated Anchoring of Cytoplasmic Dynein to the Cortex', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017) [ pdf]
Meka, Chacko, Ravi, Chatterjee and Ananthanarayanan*, 'Role of Microtubules in Osteogenic Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells on 3D Nanofibrous Scaffolds', ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering (2017) [ pdf]
Ananthanarayanan*, 'Activation of the motor protein upon attachment: Anchors weigh in on cytoplasmic dynein regulation', Bioessays (2016) [ pdf]
Ananthanarayanan* and Tolic, 'Single Molecule Imaging of Cytosplamic Dynein in vivo', Methods in Cell Biology 125 (2015) [ pdf]
Krull, Steinborn, Ananthanarayanan, Ramunno-Johnson, Petersohn, Tolic-Norrelykke*, 'A divide-and-conquer strategy for the maximum likelihood localization of low intensity objects', Optics Express 22(1), 210-228 (2014) [ pdf]
Ananthanarayanan, Schattat, Vogel, Krull, Pavin*, Tolic-Norrelykke*, 'Dynein motion switches from diffusive to directed upon cortical anchoring', Cell 153: 1526-1536 (2013) [ pdf]
Ananthanarayanan* and Thies*, 'Biocoder: A programming language for standardizing and automating Biology protocols', Journal of Biological Engineering 4:13 (2010) [ pdf]
Applications for post-doctoral positions are welcome. Please send 1) a cover letter detailing your research career to date and your proposal for Post-Doctoral research and 2) your complete CV with referee information to vaishnavi[at]iisc.ac.in.
Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan
Assistant Professor
Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering
3rd Floor, C Wing, Biological Sciences Building
Indian Institute of Science
C.V. Raman Avenue
Bangalore - 560012
+91-80-22933069
vaishnavi [at] iisc.ac.in