Category: Life post PhD

Embarking on a PhD journey, particularly in its concluding phase, resembles a remarkable roller-coaster ride brimmed with numerous deadlines. My journey mirrors that of many, yet I prefer to specify…

(Jan 2022-present) In the last season, I emphasised how postdocs were more than just an expedited PhD for me. Through this write-up, I want to share my experience and viewpoints…

(*Title inspired by Indian film RRR) Recap (2016-2019) –  I joined Vani Brahmachari’s lab (University of Delhi) in Feb 2016, finished my first postdoc in Jan 2019. During postdoc, our…

  (From 2015-2019) As we say, “Don’t mix your personal and professional lives!” – too broad and extremely complicated. Ok, I can’t bring my errors to dinner table discussions, and…

Photo credit: Aastha Vatsyayan It is funny how little we think of the time we spend doing a PhD as shaping our lives as opposed to just our careers. As…

Photo credit: K. Sangeetha I joined my PhD at IGIB as an enthusiastic and confident person who had done well in her master’s degree courses and PhD interviews. In my…

Cover picture credit: Aastha Vatsyayan Interview by Jeyashri Rengaraju and Mercy Rophina “There is no one correct way to do a PhD” As a PhD student, we all dream of…

Cover picture credit: K Sangeetha Life post PhD is super awesome and exciting. You get the opportunity to come out from your PhD bubble, and get to know better about…

Cover picture Credit: Painting - Monika Verma, Photo - Aastha Vatsyayan As a child, I was always curious about everything around me. During my high school days, I got more…

After working on non-canonical nucleic acid secondary structures, I moved into the protein folding field, where I primarily worked on ribosome-nascent chain complexes to understand how the polypeptide emerging from…

Greetings to all young readers. It was not so long ago when I was one amongst you pursuing my PhD from one of the best institutes in India, my alma…