Graduate students
Dr. Simran Kaur
(simrankaur@iisermohali.ac.in)
Simran is from Chandigarh. She obtained her Master’s degree in Biotechnology from Panjab University before joining IISER Mohali in 2013, January. Her research works involved deciphering the roles played by Hedgehog signalling in regulating a wide variety of transcription factors such as Ascl1a, Zic2b and Foxn4, and enzymes such as Mmp9. These findings are published in the journal Cell Reports in 2018. She graduated from IISER Mohali in May 2018.
Currently, she is working as a Post-doctoral Fellow with Dr. Yang Hu at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
Soumitra Mitra
(soumitramitra@iisermohali.ac.in)
Native to West Bengal, Soumitra completed his integrated Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from St. Xaviers’ College, Kolkata before joining IISER Mohali in 2012 for his Ph.D. His work in the lab involved understanding the regulation of Her4.1/Lin28a/let-7 regulatory axis by pluripotency factor c-Myc and epigenetic regulator Histone deacetylases in zebrafish retina regeneration. His observations are published in iScience in 2018 and Journal of Cell Biology in 2019. He graduated from IISER Mohali in May 2019.
Currently, he is working as a Post-doctoral Fellow with Dr. Daniel Goldman at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Undergraduate students
Year 2013-14
Sapna Meena (MS)
Year 2014-15

Currently Kranti is working as Scientist ‘B’ in Science Communication at NCMR in NCCS, Pune, India.

Year 2015-16

Currently Priyanka is pursuing Ph.D. at INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier in Quebec, Canada.

Currently Evelyn is pursuing Ph.D. at Center for Regenerative Therapies TU Dresden, Germany.
Year 2016-17

Riya just completed MBA (HR) from MDI, Gurgaon.


Currently Vijith is pursuing Ph.D. in Tirunelveli.
Year 2017-18

Currently Praveen is doing Ph.D. at University of Cote d’Azur, Nice, France.

Currently Akshai is doing Ph.D. at University of Cote d’Azur, Nice, France.

Pratibha is working as a Teaching Assistant at Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana.

Swathi is currently pursuing Ph.D. at MFPL-Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria.
Year 2018-19
Sushmita Nahar
(MS)
Navnoor Kaur Saran
(MS)
Kemdina Christina
(MS)
Komal Meena
(MS)