Group Leader
Maneesha S. Inamdar
Director, Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem)
Senior Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)
Expertise: Stem Cells; Developmental Biology; Hematopoiesis; Cardiovascular development; Angiogenesis; Mitochondria; Cytoskeleton;
Group Members
Yashashwinee Rai
Graduate Student
Fly Hematopoiesis | Heterogeneity | Organelle
I study the organellar regulation of blood progenitor heterogeneity in fruit flies, with a focus on mitochondria and lipid droplets.
Arghakusum Das
Graduate Student
Stem Cells | Cytoskeleton | EMT
I am trying to understand how cytoskeletal proteins regulate developmental EMT in humans, using 2D and 3D models of early development generated from human embryonic stem cells.
Pratiksha Bhat
Graduate Student
Stem Cells Heterogeneity | Mitochondria
My research focuses on understanding the contributions of mitochondrial heterogeneity during human embryonic stem cell differentiation.
Darshit Singh Rawat
Graduate Student
Stem Cells | Neural Development
My research focuses on understanding the early neural development using 2D and 3D models generated from human pluripotent stem cells.
Harshita Kapoor
Graduate Student
Stem Cells
I am interested in understanding early human development using stem cell-based approaches.
Shekhar Patil
Project Associate
Stem Cells | CRISPR | Early Development
I’m fascinated by early developmental processes, especially the mechanisms that maintain stem cell properties and regulate cell fate decisions.
Ragavi Rameshraj
Project Associate
Molecular Cloning | CRISPR | Cell Culture
My research focuses on molecular cloning, cell culture and genome editing.
Rajeeva
Lab Manager
Shreya Tamrakar
Project Associate
Molecular biology | Molecular cloning
Studying the differential expression of target genes in organoid models of human pluripotent stem cells and generating reporter constructs targeted to proteins of interest.
Tarun Kumar G Krishnan
Project Associate
Stem cell biology | Molecular Cloning
My research focuses on understanding the endometrial development using models generated from human pluripotent stem cells.
Sabhyata Singh
Student Intern
MS Rotation
Molecular cloning for the preparation of the Nanog gene HDR vector
Wulligundam Praveen
Program Manager
Management | GCCP Training
I oversee the coordination of the NHC project, facilitating liaison between project teams and the Gates Foundation. I manage the procurement and regulatory aspects of the laboratory at BRIC-inStem. I also provide GCCP training.
Akanksha Srivastava
Project Associate
Cell biology | Imaging
Studying the differential expression of lineage markers in early developmental models of human pluripotent stem cells using immunostaining and fluorescence microscopy.
