Saravanan Palani
Asst Professor, Dept of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science
Cell biology, Cytoskeleton, Cell cycle, Synthetic biology, Evolution.
Lab webpage: https://syncellbiolab.weebly.com
Alumnus of UniWarwick|DKFZ|MKU|VIT
- Reposted by Saravanan PalaniSAVE THE DATE! The next instalment of the long-running Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Division Conference will take place at www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels..., Italy from the 20th to 23rd of April 2027. Organisers: me, @s-lab.bsky.social, @awehenkel.bsky.social. More info soon. #MicroSky
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- Honored and super excited to join the EMBO Global Investigator Programme! Heartfelt thanks to @embo.org for this recognition. This achievement belongs to my fantastic team at Indian Institute of Science, and to all mentors, colleagues & collaborators whose support truly made it possible. ✨
- We’re on the cover of @embojournal.org Odin, from Norse mythology, emerges from the Odinarchaeota yellowstonii genome, holding FtsZ1 and FtsZ2 the ancestral twins of tubulin highlighting their evolutionary divergence in Asgard archaea. 👉 shorturl.at/n7iZE #archaea #evolution #tubulin #cytoskeleton
- Reposted by Saravanan Palani🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Reposted by Saravanan PalaniGlad to share our paper out today @NatureEcoEvo: “Serial innovations by Asgard archaea shaped the DNA replication machinery of the early eukaryotic ancestor”. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky #archaeasky
- Reposted by Saravanan PalaniHappy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social
- How do cells keep their #actin “highways” stable?🚦 Our paper @PLOS Genetics reveals surprising teamwork (and backup plans!) between tropomyosin isoforms in yeast. #imaging #cytoskeleton #celldivision This work was brilliantly led by @anubhavdhar.bsky.social @bagyasree.bsky.social t.co/RvUrzad5tL
- Reposted by Saravanan PalaniFor some three billion years, unicellular organisms ruled Earth. Then, around one billion years ago, a new chapter of life began go.nature.com/3JyRV4S
- Thrilled to see our work published in @embojournal.org #asgard #archaea #cytoskeleton #tubulin #FtsZ We sincerely appreciate the constructive peer review and the reviewers’ thoughtful, supportive feedback, which greatly strengthened our work.
- 🎉🍾Excited to share our #Asgardarchaea #odin #cytoskeleton study published in @embojournal.org Dual FtsZ proteins in Odinarchaeon form distinct filaments shedding light on tubulin/FtsZ evolution. Brilliantly led by @jayantik.bsky.social www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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- Reposted by Saravanan PalaniHow does evolution shape ancient cellular processes? Our new paper uncovers the mosaic evolution of conserved and diverging endocytic traits in fungi! www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Saravanan PalaniHello microscopy and imaging experts and enthusiasts! We are looking for a staff scientist to join us here in Geneva to work on microscopy and image analysis projects! See the link for the job announcement (in French and in English). Please apply and/or repost! jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
- Reposted by Saravanan PalaniHow do cells switch on the actin assembly at endocytic sites? How can this on-switch evolve? Check out our new preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Saravanan PalaniWe’ve uncovered Asgard chromatin structures formed by a Hodarchaeal histone : closed hypernucleosome conserved in archaea and an open form resembling the H3-H4 eukaryotic octasome. Fantastic work by @harshranawat.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Chromatin #Asgard #Archaea #cryoEM
- Preprint: IntAct-U-ExM enables robust, isoform-specific expansion microscopy of actin networks in yeast and mammalian cells. A cool study led by @anubhavdhar.bsky.social in collaboration with Sudarshan and Deepak Nair. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- This method reveals actin patches, cables, rings (yeast), and cortex, filopodia, lamellipodia, stress fibers (cell lines). Notably, it captures nuclear actin filaments with high specificity highlighting IntAct-U-ExM’s power to resolve nanoscale actin architecture across species.
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- Reposted by Saravanan PalaniExcited to announce the Molecular Biology of Archaea (MBoA) 2026! Join us in Cambridge, UK, from 6–10 July 2026 for the only international meeting dedicated to Archaea.
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