I completed my bachelors from University of Calcutta and masters from Maulana Azad College, under University of Calcutta, both degrees are in zoology. Now, I became a member of COoL Lab family at IISER, Pune in the new year of 2020. I am interested in understanding, functionalization and evolution of protocell membranes, towards transition from non-living to living chemical systems.

I have completed my Master’s in Zoology from Maulana Azad College, affiliated to The University Of Calcutta. I joined the COoL lab in January 2023. I am very enthusiastic about the translational approach of prebiotic chemistry towards synthetic biology. I am trying to understand how non-enzymatic template-directed replication may have happened in the prebiotic milieu. Apart from academics, I love trekking, listening to music, singing, and maybe cooking!!!

PhD. batch August 2024

I have completed my M.Sc. in Biochemistry from M.S. University, Baroda. Being a beginner in the field of Chemical Origin of Life, I am excited by the question of how the transition from chemistry to biology happened. In particular, I am intrigued by the idea of nonenzymatic template-directed replication under early Earth conditions. Besides doing science, I love origami, playing badminton, and writing biological science for a general non-biology audience.

After earning my Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in Microbiology from the University of Calcutta and my Master's in Chemical and Molecular Biology from IIT Kharagpur, I became part of the Cool lab to engage in intriguing research on the origin of life.

I have completed my BSc in Chemistry and MSc in Organic Chemistry from Nowrosjee Wadia College, Pune University. I am now associated with the COoL lab due to a collaboration project between Dr. Smita and Dr. Sudha that was made possible by SERB-TARE.

For PhD, IISER Pune seemed the best fit for me and thus have joined the COoL lab as a PhD grad student in Jan 2021. I am primarily interested in understanding the role amino acids and peptides might have played in the early evolution of life. In this regard, I am currently trying to understand how amino acid and nucleotides might have reacted in a one pot experiment and how this could have led to the modern-day emergent properties such as translation.

I have completed my BSc in biotechnology from St. Xavier's college Ahmedabad, joined IISER Pune as an Int-PhD student in August 2023. At COoL Lab I am working on how polymerisation could aid in emergence of biomolecular homochirality.

I am an M.Sc. Organic Chemistry graduate from St Joseph's university, Bengaluru. At COol lab, I am working on a project pertaining to Synthesis and characterization of nucleolipids using canonical and non-canonical nucleobases.