Pinned Tweet
Moving to @AshokaUniv as DBT-WellcomeTrust Senior Fellow @India_Alliance. Fully funded positions available starting Jan 2022. Postdoc:tinyurl.com/ycash75u
Grad. student: tinyurl.com/4kspmk8w
Labwebsite: kasturimitolab.org/
Please spread the word
Do consider applying.
Introducing Ashoka-Warwick PhD Programme in Quantitative Biology!
Bringing together quantitative sciences to address pressing questions in biology and health.
Spring 2027 intake opening soon!
Explore: ashoka.edu.in/ashoka-warwick…
Register your interest: forms.gle/Rh1QNTupSB732ApJ9
This is the future….
Every cell has an organelle signature — a “fingerprint” created from the shape, size & arrangement of its internal structures. HHMI scientists can now read these signatures across 1000s of cells, revealing how tissues adapt to diet & disease bit.ly/4j6DmoH 📹FelicianoLab
This is going to be extremely useful!
Today, the MitoCarta Tree of Life Consortium (MitoTOL) is releasing high-accuracy mitochondrial proteomes across diverse eukaryotes to empower studies of physiology, evolution, and disease:
cell.com/consortium/mitocart…
All data can be accessed at:
mitocarta.org
One more study justifying personalized tackling of aging….in this circadian rhythm and environmental exposure are highlighted among others. Worth delving deep into.
Aging does not appear to follow the same molecular script for everyone, according to an 8-year study of more than 300 women.
The findings in Science reveal that individual molecular trajectories of aging can diverge substantially from population-wide patterns and are shaped not only by genetics but also by factors such as circadian rhythm, seasonality, and environmental exposures. Learn more: scim.ag/4ikMUfG
kasturi-mitra retweeted
MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.
A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.
Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.
The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.
The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.
Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.
The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.
The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
New preprint from the lab led by @YoshitaSK on how interaction of light-dark and dietary cues can boost stem cell properties. She also gave an oral presentation on this in the European Drosophila Research Conference. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
An important step to determine if it works……keeping in mind that mitochondria are rewired differently in different tissue….the nuclear-mitochondria crosstalk causing such rewiring needs to be understood to greater depths.
Scientists have extracted mitochondria from a woman’s leg muscles and injected them into her eyes in an attempt to treat severe blindness
go.nature.com/4wIvmxy
Cooperation and collaboration….be it a cell or a society or the world at large….
The danger of reasoning by analogy: "The behavior of things on a very tiny scale is simply different. (Atoms) do not behave just like particles. The do not behave just like waves. Atoms do not behave like weights hanging on a spring and oscillating. Nor do they behave like miniature representations of the solar system with little planets going around in orbit. Nor does it appear to be like a cloud or fog of some sort surrounding the nucleus. It behaves like nothing you've seen before."
Likewise, the cell is not a deterministic machine or factory. I think I can safely say that nobody understands the cell.
How to escape education's death valley | Sir Ken Robinson | TED youtu.be/wX78iKhInsc?si=IKWo… via @YouTube
“The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning, and that’s it”…..do watch to laugh and learn…
kasturi-mitra retweeted
Today in @Nature, we report MouseMapper: foundation-model AI to map disease perturbations across the entire mouse body cell-by-cell.
In obesity, it revealed body-wide inflammation & unexpected facial nerve damage. 🧵👇🔉
nature.com/articles/s41586-0… led by @Dorie00 & @yingchen733
kasturi-mitra retweeted
About 65 million years ago, an asteroid hit our planet and changed the course of life on Earth. Non-avian dinosaurs died, thus ending their reign. Walter Alvarez, a UC Berkeley geophysics professor, co-discovered (with his father, Nobel prize-winning physicist Louis Alvarez) the impact theory for dinosaur extinction. Their hypothesis was vindicated in 1991 when the massive Chicxulub Crater was discovered on the Yucatan Peninsula. Hear famous palaeontologist Steve Brusatte on the 21st May at the India International Centre, Delhi, on the rise and fall of these beasts. @GlobalAshoka @AshokaUniv
Global Research Alliances, Ashoka University, invites you for a conversation with acclaimed palaeontologist Steve Brusatte on his award-winning book, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs. Drawing on discoveries from around the world and his own fieldwork, he will trace the remarkable story of dinosaurs, from their emergence over 230 million years ago to their enduring legacy in the birds we see today.
🗓️ Thursday, 21 May 2026
🕧 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
📍 Multipurpose Hall, Kamala Devi Complex, India International Centre (IIC)
Register Here: forms.gle/FtGj5GaC4KNQ5qts7
(@kvijayraghavan, @AmbikaAnupama)
#AshokaUniversity
Mayank looks really happy after receiving the best poster prize from a scientific editor of the EMBO Journal in a recent @Fusion_Conf packed with stars in the field. Well deserved, indeed, @mayank926768
The excitement of working in a multidisciplinary team returns after the success of the inaugural year. Do apply.
Replying to @KCDH_A
@KCDH_A is proud to announce the 2nd #BDSA2026, jointly delivered by @AshokaUniv in collaboration with @Yale.
3-week programme (27 July–14 Aug) covering biostatistics, genomics, & clinical data with hands-on research & mentorship.
Apply by 31 May: ashoka.edu.in/bdsa
This is expected to be a good resource and motivation for meaningful repurposing of drugs in cancer.
Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 Giant cancer study reveals effectiveness of ‘off label’ treatments
go.nature.com/4tprYXi
Do consider applying….our lab will accept students in collaborative projects in quantitative and translational sciences
There you go….another significant step in enriching the world of Virtual Cells…….scifi has to go the next level…. cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
In FrancoIndian summit for AI based collaboration, suggestion of a panelist to call this session as Children Well Being than Protecting Children from AI…looking forward to policies across the world given the stark revelation of damages caused to children by e-interactions.
kasturi-mitra retweeted
Statement from the Nobel Foundation
One of the core missions of the Nobel Foundation is to safeguard the dignity of the Nobel Prizes and their administration. The Foundation upholds Alfred Nobel’s will and its stipulations. It states that the prizes shall be awarded to those who "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind," and it specifies who has the right to award each respective prize. A prize can therefore not, even symbolically, be passed on or further distributed.
For additional information, please refer to the Norwegian Nobel Committee: nobelpeaceprize.org/press/pr…
Memorable experience on cross disciplinary engagements today…panel discussion on “Math is the language of Biology” , and being an external examiner of a Physics experiential learning course @AshokaUniv is a fun place for academicians @MenonBioPhysics @somakrc @AnuragAgrawalMD






















