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Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics: A life science research institute under Dept. of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India.
New publication from Dr. @dipesh-lab.bsky.social in collaboration with Prof. @raphmercier.bsky.social from @mpipz.bsky.social in @commsbio.nature.com Journal on Kinetochore KMN complex.

Read the paper for more: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

#Kinetochore #KMNcomplex #arabidopsis
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
New paper published in iScience journal from the lab of Dr. Subbareddy Maddika on protein interaction mapping of LisH domain proteins.

Read the paper: cell.com/iscience/ful...

#proteomics #LisH #ARIH2 #ubiquitination #regulatoryaxis

@devanshigupta.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
New publication in Current Genetics in the domain of rice rhizosphere with important contributions from CDFD Staff.

#Acinetobacterlwoffii #Plantgrowthpromotingrhizobacteria #Genomesequencing

Read the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The India International Science Festival will be held at Chandigarh from 6th to 9th December 2025. With the theme of 'Vigyan Se Samruddhi: for Aatmanirbhar Bharat', its mission is to celebrate and advance the spirit of science-led growth for a self-reliant and prosperous India.
#sciencefestivals
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
CDFD Scientists and Staff virtually participated in the 2nd Foundation Day celebrations of Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council (BRIC) on 10.11.2025.
#BRIC #BRICFoundationDay
Department of Biotechnology BRIC DBT
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Dr. K. Thangaraj, Former Director of CDFD, has been awarded the Vigyan Shri Award for 2025, for his monumental scientific achievements and contributions. It is a moment of immense pride for CDFD.
#RashtriyaVigyanPuraskar
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Reposted by BRIC - CDFD
Avishek Kataria, Shweta Tyagi @shwetatyagi.bsky.social and colleagues @bric-cdfd.bsky.social find that the MLL/WDR5 complex promotes midbody recruitment of KIF2C for microtubule depolymerisation & furrow initiation during cytokinesis.

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
October 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
New paper published in BMC Plant Biology with important contributions from Dr. Ajay Kumar Mahoto on development of high density SNP array for grain amaranth.

Read more: bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#amaranth #genotypingarray #highthroughput
October 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
CDFD is pleased to announce an institute seminar by Dr. Subhendu Kumar Das (Post-doctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Pathology, CCR, NCI, NIH, Maryland, USA). All are cordially invited to attend the seminar.
#dnadamage #CancerResearch #topoisome
October 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Have you applied for the CDFD PhD program, beginning Jan. 2026? If not, hurry, the last date is 28th Oct.

Apply here: 14.139.82.220/apps/2025/phd/

@DBTIndia @BricDbt @MAHE_Manipal @unescorcb

#PhDAdmissions #phdprogramCDFD
October 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Avishek Kataria from @shwetatyagi.bsky.social Lab got featured for the 'First Person Series' of @jcellsci.bsky.social for their recent publication.

Read here: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
First person – Avishek Kataria
ABSTRACT. First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Av...
journals.biologists.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:42 AM
New paper published in @jcellsci.bsky.social from the lab of Dr. @shwetatyagi.bsky.social exploring a new role of MLL/WDR5 complex in cytokinesis.

Read more: doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

#MLL #midbodyformation #furrowinitiation
October 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
New Book Chapter from the lab of Dr. Rashna Bhandari published in 'Inositol Pyrophosphates, Methods and Protocols', in the Methods in Molecular Biology series of
@springernature.com

Read here: link.springer.com/protocol/10....

#inositolpyrophosphates #protocols #knockoutmice #animalmodel
October 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
New paper published in @emboreports.org from the lab of Dr. Maddika Subba Reddy discussing a non-catalytic role of a phosphatase connected to several autoimmune disorders.

Read more: embopress.org/doi/full/10....

#PhosphatasePTPN22 #mTORC2
October 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
New paper published in BMC Genomics with important contributions from the lab of Dr. Madhusudan Reddy Nandineni at CDFD.
Read more: bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#Populationgenetics #forensicidentification
October 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
CDFD Scientist Dr. Rashna Bhandari received the Devi Award 2025. This year’s edition celebrates women who are driving change across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Heartiest congratulations!

Read more: newindianexpress.com/thesundaysta...

#WomenInSTEM #deviawards
October 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
New Review published in International Reviews of Immunology from the lab of Dr. Sangita Mukhopadhyay on IBD therapies.
Read more: tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...
#inflammatoryboweldisease #peptidebasedtreatments
October 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
New Review published in @phytopathology.bsky.social from the lab of Dr. Subhadeep Chatterjee. This review discusses in detail about the mechanisms Xanthomonas follows in order to increase it's pathogenicity.
Read more: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/epdf/10....
#xanthomonas #plantmicrobeinteraction
October 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We are excited to have Prof. Dasaradhi Palakodeti from inSTEM, Bengaluru delivering our monthly Seminar. He will discuss about the mechanisms behind pluripotency in Stem cells.
#stemcells #pluripotency #seminars #invitedtalks
October 8, 2025 at 7:22 AM
CDFD Scientist Dr. Ashwin Dalal has been elected as a Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). Heartiest congratulations to him on this magnificent achievement!
#awards #recognitions #fellow #academiesofsciences
October 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Our graduate student Dr. Sandip Patra from Dr. Rupinder Kaur's lab received a Runners Up award in the KVRSS Research Awards! Congratulations!
#academicaccolades #researchawards
September 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
In a significant move to deepen collaborative science, Dr. Reddy's Institute of Life Sciences (DRILS) has established joint postdoctoral research programs with two premier national institutions: the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) and @tifrhyderabad.bsky.social
#postdocprogram
September 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Celebrating our PhD Graduates - Rahul Baroi from Dr. Maddika Subba Reddy's Lab. He identifies a protein, PPTC7, which facilitates cargo trafficking by recruiting another protein, VPS4A, acting as a 'traffic guard' to ensure smooth vesicle transport.
#phosphatases #vesiculartrafficking #phdthesis
September 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Great news! Our Alumna, Dr. @nehaghosh.bsky.social received a NIH K99 Award. Heartiest Congratulations!
#K99 #alumnistories #proudalmamater
September 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM