News

November, 2025

• Ayanthi’s paper goes live on bioRxiv. Congratulations to Ayanthi and team! For a quick summary, check out the tutorial X.

October, 2025

• Read our latest work on role of neuropeptides in blood feeding in Anopheles stephensi on eLife

August, 2025

• A review by Prashali and Sonia on “Sexual dimorphism in the behaviour and sensory systems of mosquitoes” out in Current Opinion in Neurobiology!

June, 2025

• Kaiser, Prabhas, Usha and Varenya head off to new ventures! Best wishes and farewell!

  

August, 2024

Prashali presents her work on role of neuropeptides in blood-feeding behaviour in mosquitoes at the 27th International Congress of Entomology (ICE2024 Kyoto), Kyoto, Japan!

July 2024

• Sonia in conversation with Development.

• Farewell and best wishes to Trusha, Malica, and Akshay! Akshay heads to IMSc Chennai for his PhD in Computational Biology, while Trusha and Malica move on to new adventures.

  

May, 2024

• Prashali’s paper on blood-feeding behaviour in Anopheles stephensi is now live on bioRxiv! Congratulations to the team! Also checkout our brief tutorial on X for a quick overview!

• Nandana heads off to start her PhD at the University of Reading. Congrats and farewell!

  

February, 2024

• Sonia helps organize the Indian Society of Developmental Biologists (InSDB) biennial meeting at BLiSC, hosting eminent researchers, including Jim Truman and Lynn Riddiford for inspiring conversations and idea exchanges.

  

• Prashali presents her work on blood-feeding behaviour in mosquitoes at the Asia Pacific Drosophila Neurobiology Conference 3 (APDNC3) in Tokyo, Japan.

December, 2023

• Ayanthi and Prashali present posters at the 6th Indian Drosophila Research Conference (InDRC 2023) at IISER Thiruvananthapuram, with Prashali bagging a poster award! Congratulations!

November, 2023

• Ayanthi and Sonia represent the lab at the symposium on “Stochasticity and Plasticity in Living Systems” at Sakleshpur, Karnataka.

  

June, 2023

• Prashali selected to attend the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School (TENSS) 2023 at Pike Lake, Romania. Congratulations!

April, 2023

• Roshni heads off to start her PhD journey at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Congrats and farewell!

December, 2022

• Sen lab attends Indian Neurobehaviour meeting (INC 2022) at MAHE, Manipal.

  

April, 2022

• Lab outing done right: a big breakfast and an even bigger escape room challenge :)

  

August, 2021

• Science, smiles, and sanitizer — a fun rooftop afternoon with Krishna Melnattur at Sonia’s place during Covid times :)

  

  

August, 2020

• A virtual game night with the lab during Covid times!

  

January, 2020

• Sen lab at its first conference! 5th Asia Pacific Drosophila Research Conference (APDRC5) and the Indian Drosophila Research Conference at IISER, Pune.

  

  

• Lab dinner at boss’s place