DDas Research Group
... the systems chemistry lab
DDas Research Group
... the systems chemistry lab
September 2024
Work on feedback driven autonomous cycles of assembly and disassembly from minimal building blocks is now accepted in Nature Communications!
August 2024
Work on allosteric control of catalytic properties of dipeptide-based supramolecular assemblies is now out in the Journal of American Chemical Society!
Review on non-equilibrium self-assembly for living matter like properties is now out in the Nature Reviews Chemistry!
July 2024
June 2024
DD has been elected as the chair of the GRC Systems Chemistry 2028 and vice chair of the GRC Systems Chemistry 2026 along with Prof. Elisa Franco. Congratulations DD!
April 2024
January 2024
Work on Temporal (Dis)Assembly of Peptide Nanostructures Dictated by Native Multistep Catalytic Transformations is now out in Nano Letters!
January 2024
SERB-funded Postdoctoral/research associate (RA-1) position is available in our lab. Go through the link for more details.
DST funded Project position is available in our lab (can be converted to PhD). Go through the link for more details.
November 2023
Work on Exploitation of Catalytic Dyads by Short Peptide-Based Nanotubes for Enantioselective Covalent Catalysis is now out in Angewandte Chemie!
October 2023
September 2023
June 2023
February 2023
SERB-funded Post doctoral/research associate (RA-1) position is available in our lab. For more details please check out the link.
December 2022
DD is invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board of ChemSystemsChem for a period of 4 years. Congratulations DD !
October 2022
Chiranjit is awarded with the Prime Minister Research Fellowship. Congratulations Chiranjit !
September 2022
Congratulations Dr. Ayan Chatterjee for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
July 2022
DD has been awarded with CRSI Bronze Medal for the year 2023. Congratulations DD!
Work on Phosphoesterase Activity by Cross-β Amyloids is out in Chemical Science!
May 2022
Work on Divergent Cascade Driven Fluorescent Amyloid Micro-swimmers is out in Angewandte Chemie!
March 2022
January 2022
December 2021
Chiranjit grabs Chemical Science Outstanding Poster Presentation Prize at the ChemSci 2021, Leaders in Field Symposium organized by JNCASR. Congratulations Chiranjit!
November 2021
September 2021
Article featured as an outstanding work in the virtual issue of JACS Early Career Investigators
Ayan grabs the best poster award ACS Langmuir at the ACS-CRSI Joint Poster Session hosted by 27th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry organized by IISER Kolkata. Congratulations Ayan!
DD has been awarded with CRSI Young Investigator Award. Congratulations DD!
July 2021
New Opening for Post Doctoral position funded by IISER Kolkata
Feature article on Cross β Amyloid Assemblies as Complex Catalytic Machinery published in Chem Comm!
March 2021
DD has been awarded with Indian Peptide Society-Young Scientist Award (IPS-YSA) for Excellence in Peptide Research for the year 2021. Congratulations DD!
January 2021
Work on Complex Cascade Reaction Networks via Cross β Amyloid Nanotubes published in Angewandte Chemie!
December 2020
2020 is ending with grand achievements!
Subhajit received B.N.Mankad award for his oral presentation. Pavel, Antara & Sumit bagged RSC Journal Award, ICS excellence award & ACS Journal Award respectively for their poster presentation at RTCS-OBC 2020 symposium of ICS.
December 2020
DD has been included in the Advisory Board of Materials Horizons. Congratulations DD!
December 2020
Ayan grabs the best poster award in ChemSci 2020-RSc sponsored Chemical Science virtual symposium @IISER Kolkata. Congratulations Ayan!
November 2020
DD has been awarded with prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship in Chemical Sciences, 2020. Proud moment!
November 2020
DD has been included in the International Advisory Board (IAB) of Asian JOC. Congratulations DD!
September 2020
Antara grabs the S. S. Bhatnagar Young Scientist Award for her presentation(oral) in RACMS 2020. Congratulations Antara!
May 2020
DD joins the Early Career Advisory Board of ACS Chemical Reviews 2020-2021. Congratulations DD!
April 2020
Work on non-equilibrium cross β amyloid polymers now out in Angewandte Chemie!
April 2020
DD delivers Invited Lecture at the prestigious Systems Chemistry Conference 2020!
March 2020
March 2020
Its raining awards!
Subhajit, Sahnawaz & Pavel grab Research Excellence Awards in Chemical Science 2020 conference held @ IISER Kolkata. Antara bags her first Best Poster Award in Chemical Science 2020. Congratulations to all!
DD felicitated by IISER Kolkata!
February 2020
January 2020
Work on Aldolase Cascade by Self Assembled Nanotubes is out in Angewandte Chemie!
December 2019
Pavel follows up his paper with a sports achievement!!! .. bags Silver in lawn tennis in the recently concluded Inter IISER Sports Meet (IISM)... Congratulations Pavel!
November 2019
Our project on Catalytic Amyloids rated "Excellent" by Nano Mission, Govt. of India. Our INSPIRE Project on Dynamic Assemblies had also received Excellent Ratings by INSPIRE Program, Govt. of India. Thank you for the encouragements!
November 2019
Dr. Baishakhi Saha was associated with DD Lab as CSIR-RA from 2018-2019, moved to New York, USA for her postdoc in Prof. Dixie J. Goss's Lab. Best wishes Baishakhi!
October 2019
September 2019
September 2019
DD Lab member Dr. Sahnawaz Ahmed who was associated as a postdoc from 2017-2019, moved to Spain for his second postdoc in Dr. Javier Montenegro's Lab. Best wishes Sahnawaz!
July 2019
DD has been selected as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc) 2019. Congratulations!
July 2019
Sumit joins DDLab as a Ph. D. student and Chiranjit joins as a project JRF fellow. Welcome!
July 2019
May 2019
New! Opening in recently granted NanoMission Project for JRF/Project Fellow
April 2019
Chandra joins DD Lab as JRF. Welcome!
February 2019
New! Opening in recently granted SERB Project for JRF/Project Fellow
January 2019
July 2018
Baishakhi Sarkhel joins DD Lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
June 2018
Congratulations Darshana for successfully defending her BS-MS thesis.
June 2018
Dr. Baishakhi Saha joins DD Lab as CSIR Research Associate. Welcome to the group!
March 2018
Dr. Krishnendu Das joins DD Lab as a Visiting Scientist. Welcome to the group!
January 2018
Subhajit and Antara join DD lab. Antara did her Masters from IIT Indore and Subhajit did his Masters from IIT Guwahati. Welcome!
September 2017
Dr. Sahnawaz Ahmed joins DD Lab as National Post Doctoral Fellow. Welcome!
July 2017
Ayan and Pavel join DD Lab. They both did their Masters from Visva Bharati University. Welcome!
September 2016
Kishalay and Darshana join DD Lab. They are pursuing their Masters at IISER Kolkata. Welcome.
March 2017
Catalytic diversity in self-propagating peptide assemblies published in Nature Chemistry
January 2017
DD Lab moves to IISER Kolkata from IISER Tirupati
November 2016
Aqueous gels with acute NIR light responsiveness accepted in Chemical Communications
September 2016
Akhil joins DD Lab. He did his BS-MS from IISER Mohali. Welcome Akhil!
June 2016
Great News!! Nidhi and Ashmeet get their second paper accepted in Angewandte Chemie. Cheers! The work deals with acute responsiveness of Amyloid based materials when hybridized with 2D materials like Molydenum Disulfide.
February 2016
Best Poster again! Ashmeet adds one more Best Poster Award to his kitty, this time at the 18th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry http://www.crsi2016.in/
January 2016
Due to many recently awarded grants (DST Nano Mission, DBT Nanotechnology and DST INSPIRE), we now have multiple openings
January 2016
More Funds!! DD gets his third project funded! The prestigous "Department of Science and Technology-Nanomission Grant" on "Smart Peptide Nanomaterials for Chemical Evolution" (3 years) http://nanomission.gov.in/
November 2015
DD gets his second project funded. The work proposes the use of Amyloid based nanomaterials for Photoablation Therapy and funded by Department of Biotechnology "Nanobiotechnology Research" (3 years) http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/
July 2015
Best poster again! Nidhi grabs C.N.R. Rao award for the best Poster for “Cross-β Amyloid Nanohybrids decorated With Cytochrome C Exhibit Superactivity in Organic Solvents " in CRIKC (Chandigarh Region Innovation and Knowlegde Cluster) Nanoscience day, 21st July 2015.http://crikc.puchd.ac.in/.
March 2015
First Paper! Nidhi and Ashmeet just published their first work in Angewandte Chemie http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201500981/abstract. The work shows striking activation of Cytochrome C-amyloid nanotube hybrids in organic solvent!
December 2014
Ashmeet grabs the best poster award on "Responsive Amyloid Catalyst" in the One Day Conclave on Nano Biotechnology, 22 December 2014 held at IISER Mohali http://www.inst.ac.in/seminar/index.html.
