The work is now online @cp-starprotocols.bsky.social and we hope it will make life easier for researchers requiring regular fibroblast culture and finally address the long-standing issue of reliably maintaining a continuous Passage 1 population.
This actually began as a chance discovery when we were struggling with low yield and inconsistent digestion using Trypsin-based established methods. All credit goes to Shubhangi and Supratim(now Dr. Pradhan) for creatively turning a challenge into a solution.
We are pleased to share a new protocol from our lab on isolating primary murine fibroblasts without any enzymatic digestion.
FibroPrep protocol for rapid enzyme-free isolation of primary dermal f... sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
And to top it off, Denesh's application (1st year Phd, co-supervised with Mainak Bose, IIT kgp) was selected for the EMBL-EBI Microscopy Data Analysis Workshop—with a full fee waiver. Too much good news at once feels suspicious… so we’ll enjoy it while it lasts 🙂. Here are few snippets
Debolina (final year Phd) who presented online while doing something slightly important (like getting married), won Best Online Presentation and also had her poster selected for a flash talk at RAdMed-2025. Priorities perfectly balanced 👏
Shubhangi (2nd year Phd) won Best Oral Presentation at NBRCOM (AIIMS Jodhpur) and followed it up with another Best Presentation Award at the SBC Annual Meeting. Peer praise + ₹50k prize = serious celebration 🎉
Not often that we get to celebrate so many wins at once. I’ll admit I’m usually late in acknowledging the lab’s hard work—but it’s time to celebrate them. So here we go
Standing on the shoulders of giants. Researchers (nodes) at early (red), mid (blue) and late (grey) career stage who have built on one another's work (edges). Large nodes are researchers whose work would not be recognized with journal level metrics but would be recognized with article level metrics. Credit: B. Ian Hutchins
Are authors fairly judged by assessing the #journals in which their work is published? @bihutchins.bsky.social &co reveal that most influential papers are published in lower tier journals, and more authors would be better recognized with #ArticleLevelMetrics #ALMs @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oV58Ed
Thank you so much. Honoured and humbled!!
@tifr.res.in @syncellbiolab.bsky.social @budhaditya.bsky.social @yjluo.bsky.social
isolates of Leishmania, that provides them with a replicative edge over sensitive counterparts.
Happy to share our latest work now published in @elife.bsky.social: Scrutinized lipid utilization disrupts Amphotericin-B responsiveness in clinical isolates of Leishmania donovani doi.org/10.7554/eLif.... Here we explain the ability of selective host lipid utilization of drug resistant clinical
Would like to thank all the members of the lab for their hard work and dedications to make this happen. Thanks ICMRDELHI and MHRDSTARS for funding support. And thanks 2024 for being so kind. @emboreports.org and
@plos.org couldn't have asked for more!!
New Publication Alert!!
After 5 years of relentless ups & downs our group IDIlab @SMSTIITKGP reports in Plos Pathogens @plosplos.bsky.social
We unveil how antimony-resistant Leishmania donovani manipulates iron metabolism—fueling its survival while worsening anemia
