Lab Chronicles

Became Member Secretary, Institutional Ethical Committee (03/2023)
Gave invited talk at Graphic Era University, Dehradun (02/2023)
Ms. Jyoti Sharma joined the lab as Ph.D. student (01/2023)
Ms. Nehal joined the lab for MS project to study the effects of nutritional perturbation on intracellular metabolomic changes (01/2023)
Gave talk at IBSE Microbiome symposium at IITM (11/2022)
Ms. Jyoti Sharma joined the lab as SERB-JRF (08/2022)
Became advisory board member of Heliyon, Cell Press (10/2022)
Ms. Nisha Tewari (UGC-JRF) joined the lab as Ph.D. student (08/2022)
Received BIRAC-BIG grant as PI (08/2022)
Ms. Sayantani Bhattacharya joined the lab as PhD student (07/2022)
Received research grant from SERB as co-PI (05/2022)
Received Indo-Russia grant from DST as co-PI (03/2022)
Included in the editorial board of Nutrition Research (Elsevier) (02/2022)
Became Associate Editor (Gastrointestinal health) of the journal Frontiers In Physiology (02/2022)
Became member of Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine (02/2022)
Ms. Niyati Dhingra joined the lab as SERB JRF (02/2022)
Ms. Ruhi Walia joined the lab as a M.Tech. student to study the alterations of intracellular global metabolome of probiotics under stress conditions (01/2022).
Ms. Sonia joined the lab as M.Tech. student to study the aroma chemistry of Indian spices (01/2022).
Received grant from SERB to study hepatic crosstalk between TLR4, Nrf2, and HIF-dependent signaling (12/2021).
Ms. Dwinder Sidhu joined the lab as Ph.D. scholars (09/2021).
Given an invited talk on 'The Role of Gut Microbiota in Human Health & Disease' in a webinar organized by North Bengal St. Xavier's College (08/2021).
Ms. Amiteshwar joined the lab for MTech dissertation. Topic: Isolation, optimization and characterization of probiotic commensals for the maintenance of intracellular global metabolome (07/2021)
Received research grant from CEEMS (TIET-Virginia Tech) for development of nano-carriers for EGCG (06/2021)
Invited expert in panel discussion at NUTRITION 2021 (04/2021)
IndiaBioscience Young Investigators Meet 2021-CACTUS Prizes (2021)
Conducted 7-d workshop on Basics of Microbiota (04/2021)
Editorial-board: Phytomedicine Plus (Elsevier) 2021
Guest editor in Frontiers in Pharmacology. Special issue: Intestinal-level Bioactivities of Phytochemicals. (01/2021)
Mr. Rajat Sharma joined the lab for MSc dissertation. Topic: Bioactivity-guided optimized isolation and characterization of phytococtails from Oleander (12/2020)
Ms. Navneet Kaur joined the lab for MSc dissertation. Topic: Non-immunogenic exopolysaccharides from probiotic gut commensals (12/2020)
Ms. Upasana Gupta joined the lab for MTech dissertation. Topic: Gut microbiome, Endotoxin & Catechins (11/2020)
Received TIET seed grant (10/2020) TIET-VT Center of Excellence in Emerging Materials (CEEMS)