The Hippocampus
Sea horses of current inside our brain, letting you ride across the memory lane, be it in joy or strain. Anytime it may crash or collide, with rampaging waves or due to its age, splashing sprinkles of life. Verse by Poorti Kathpalia
The MAMs (Mitochondria-Associated Membranes)
ER and mitochondria - each a distinct entity Yet they form MAMs, a product of their unity Essential and important, the physiological significance Aiding the cell in maintaining calcium homeostasis and balance Hustling through to regulate the autophagy system Along with tuning up the lipid metabolism Words by Monika Verma adapted into verse by Srashti Jyoti Agrawal
Cover picture Credit: Painting - Sanovar Dayal, Prachi Singh; Photo - Aastha Vatsyayan
Muneesh Pal is a PhD student in Dr. Beena Pillai's lab at CSIR-IGIB, New Delhi. He is fascinated by the spatio-temporal regulation of genes during brain development. He studies how lncRNAs fine tune neuronal gene regulation.
Monika Verma is a joint PhD student with Dr. Kausik Chakraborty and Dr. Chetana Sachidanandan. She works on generating redox potential maps of zebrafish embryos.