🧬🚀Thrilled to share our new paper on Neobacillus driksii—a fascinating bacterial strain discovered in the Mars 2020 spacecraft assembly facility, with unique lasso peptide production potential! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/sp… IBSE Wadhwani School of Data Science & AI (WSAI), IITM Department of Biotechnology IIT Madras IIT Madras #Microbiology

I'll be presenting our recent work on Genomic, functional, and metabolic enhancements in multidrug-resistant E. bugandensis facilitating its persistence and succession in the ISS at MVIF 35 - with keynote talk by Prof. Christine Moissl-Eichinger on 21 Jan cassyni.com/events/QBaKH4F…

🚀 Day 1 - Opening and 1st Keynote @ 5th IBSE International Symposium - Microbiomes: Exploring Invisible Frontiers in Health, Habitat, Space, and Beyond 🔬 #Microbiome #Metagenomics #IBSE2025

🚇🔬 Excited to share our study on Chennai Metro's microbiome—the first of its kind in India! Conducted during the Omicron phase. Our findings reveal fascinating microbial ecosystems in India's urban transit! 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… #Microbiome #PublicHealth

📢 NIH BioArt Source, a free science and biomedical art resource library, offers an array of high-quality illustrations, vectors, & brushes, free to use & download. See the full catalog of free science and #biomedical illustrations: bioart.niaid.nih.gov #FreeResource

#MVIF 37 recordings now available! Huge thanks to Tohseen🥰 for putting together all the talks, available on both platforms: Cassyni Seminars cassyni.com/s/mvif-37 YouTube youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Extremotolerant Bacteria Identified In The NASA Phoenix Cleanroom astrobiology.com/2025/05/extrem… #astrobiology #genomics #Microbiology #planetaryprotection #Mars

In #Microbiome 🚀Exploring how NASA's mission spacecraft assembly cleanrooms host 26 novel bacterial species 🦠These microbes form biofilms, resist various stressors & hold biotechnological potential 🚨doi.org/g9h7sx

The WSAI Annual Research Showcase 2025 highlighted new research that could be transformed into real-world solutions. Do check the Video of the event along with voices of faculty, participants and industry representatives Balaraman Ravindran Karthik Raman Centre for Responsible AI, IIT Madras RBC-DSAI@IITM

🎉Our latest paper is out in npj Systems Biology and Applications! We present COSMOS–a computational tool to predict optimal microbial monocultures & co-cultures for specific environments Read more🔗nature.com/articles/s4154… 👏 Kudos to Lavanya Raajaraam for leading this work!

Almost four years ago, I started my journey with tiny creatures of extreme environments. How they chit-chat (interact) is key to sustaining life in the most hostile corners of our planet. Image generated: Sora #WorldEnvironmentDay #Microbiome #ExtremeEnvironments #Ecology

New relaxations on purchase of equipment through government grants. GeM not mandatory now.

LIFTOFF of Axiom-4 🚀 After 41 long years, an Indian astronaut is finally on his way to space! 🇮🇳

Super proud moment!

Science from space - one of the highlights of this mission was conducting science in microgravity. Simple experiments become complex due to the environment of microgravity. Since everything floats, nothing would break if you leave it but would surely float away and you may end up

How does digestion work & is it affected by microgravity?🤔 In the latest STEMonstration video, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla dishes on nutrition & how the body digests food in space. Hungry for more? Visit conta.cc/4lexreY.