News

Our new study investigating role of physical forces and fluid flows in evolution of multicellularity has just been published in Nature Physics! Work done in close collaboration with Hanliang Guo, Eva Kanso, Jack Costello, Wallace Marshall and Sean Colin!

Methods paper describing assays to study pointed end regulation by tropomyosin and tropomodulin published in Cytoskeleton.

Vishal and Ankita's paper accepted in PNAS!

Heidi's review on twinfilin published in Current Opinion in Cell Biology!

Ekram's paper on CAP published in PNAS!

Ankita's paper combining theory & experiments to uncover multicomponent dynamics of three barbed end depolymerases has just been accepted at PRX Life! Great collaboration with Sandeep Choubey from Institute of Mathematical Sciences!

Our work on role of self assembly in evolution of multicellularity just got accepted at Nature Physics!

Ekram's paper on multicomponent depolymerization of actin filaments just got accepted at EJCB!

Heidi has just been awarded the Lew Best Paper Award for the academic year 2022-2023! This award is given to the Best Paper published in the year by a BCDB student. Congratulations Heidi!

Heidi's and Ignas' paper on multicomponent regulation of actin barbed end assembly by formin, CP and Twinfilin has just been published! Congratulations both! 

This summer, Shekhar lab welcomes rising sophomores Matthew Baker and Nayana Sah!

Surbhi Garg who has just obtained her PhD in Chemistry from IISER Mohali has joined the lab as a postdoc! Welcome Surbhi!

Rising junior Vishal Reddy joins the lab as our first undergraduate lab member! Vishal is a premed majoring in physics! 

Ekram officially joins the Shekhar lab as our third graduate student! Yay!

Physics student Ekram Towsif joins the lab for his second rotation!

BCDB student Taylor Hailstock joins the lab for her second rotation!

Our second TIRF scope arrives! More scopes, happy students, happy PI!

We are officially an NIH funded lab! Thrilled to announce award of our 5 year $1.94M R35 MIRA grant! This grant will fund our work on multicomponent mechanochemical molecular mechanisms underlying cellular actin dynamics. Multiple postdoc, technician positions open!

Shekhar lab welcomes our first grad students - Ankita and Heidi, both of whom have decided to join our lab!

BCDB Heidi joins the lab for her PhD rotation!

Physics graduate students Hannah and Ankita join the lab for their 2nd rotation.

Ignas Gaska joins the lab as our first postdoc. Ignas did his PhD with Scott Forth studying mechanisms of microtubule bundling with Scott Forth at RPI.

Our story on twinfilin's depolymerization of actin filament barbed ends just out in Journal of Cell Biology.

Our new TIRF microscope has arrived!

The Shekhar lab takes off at the Physics department at Emory University!

Shashank presented lab's research program at the Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology Zoom seminar.