Nimesh's News

New position

It’s official people, I am going to be joining postdoctoral fellow in Hannah Stuart lab at EMBL, Barcelona. Incredibly excited to continue working on neural tube but this time on organoid system.

New Preprint! Spatchcocking is online!

Super excited to share my postdoc work from the Nerurkar Lab! How does a relatively simple tube become a complex brain? We built a 3D morphometric framework — “spatchcocking” 🐔 — to map exactly what changes during this dramatic 24-hour, ~10× volume expansion in the chick embryo. We found:

• The brain compartmentalizes as it inflates.
• It thickens as it expands. Inflation usually thins a shell. Not here!
• The dorso-ventral patterns of thickness and cell division are conserved throughout.

Check out the Preprint and Code

Special thanks to Nandan Nerurkar for the mentorship and the wonderful Nerurkar Lab. Lastly, Thank you chicken embryos. Best model system!

JEXPNIMESH.COM is back!

I lost ownership of jexpnimesh couple years ago. I was sad. This domain means a lot to me because it was given to me as present by my PhD lab. I am happy to announce that I bought it back at a reasonable price from porkbun people. It was much cheaper than the fee nominalia people were charging for a year of renewal. Now, I will have this domain for the next 5 years.

Another small update: I have bought more film.

Moving back to Barcelona

It’s really happening! I’m moving back to Barcelona at the end of June. I’ve had an amazing two years in NYC, and I’m definitely going to savor every bagel and pizza until the very end. Also, now I need a postdoc in Barcelona!

I just finished the last roll of film

I just finished the last roll of film. I think it’s time to end one of my most expensive hobbies: film photography. It was fun. I really enjoyed taking photos and not knowing how they would turn out. It was exciting. When I received the photos back, they amazed me. I liked the noise in the photos, unlike my phone camera, which uses magical AI to smooth out all the noise and sharpen all the edges automatically. I appreciated the grains and microstructure of the crystals on the film. Maybe I don’t want to quit. Maybe I will buy another set of film. No! I will not. It was good while it lasted. I will keep these memories with me for a long time, along with the physical photons captured on the film negatives.

I got married!

I just got married! We signed the papers at the NYC city hall with some friends. Everyone feels very happy. Thank you to my friends and family for all the wishes.

Spatchcocking is working!

spatchcocking my computational tool to analyze 3d data is working. I will keep you guys posted about the paper. soon!!!

Going home to India

Finally, I am going back India. I am going to see the family and relax. No business on the trip.

Visiting Arizona Utah and Nevada

I am visiting the amazing national parks of the USA. Grand Canyon. Zion. Bryce. Really really love the views. A lot of driving and hiking. Very happy to get to see this. Thanks to government shutdown they are free.

Another preprint! Congratulations Tom!

I’m really excited to see another MOLI preprint released! I’m super proud to have been a part of this project. I hope Tom gets smooth reviews, quick publication, and a fantastic PI position soon!

Epithelial mechanics fan club turns 2!

🎉 Happy International #EpithelialMechanics Day! 🎉 It’s been two years already since I started this community.

my first first author pre-print is out

Finally, after a long, long time of waiting. We managed to submit the paper, and finally the paper is also online on the bioRxiv. I am super happy that we managed to do it. Plus, I got to celebrate it with my lab, though remotely, but it was nice. I even did a paper thread on bsky. Check it out.

EMBO workshop in Barcelona was awesome

I recently enjoyed an amazing EMBO workshop on computational modeling of multicellular systems in Barcelona. I learned various techniques & gained hands-on experience. Thanks to EMBO for providing me the opportunity and funds to travel. I want to thank Alejandro Torres-Sanchez and James Sharpe for organizing the workshop.

Presented Epithelial Mechanics for Pint of Science

Had a lot of fun discussing my favorite topic, #EpithelialMechanics! Big thanks to @pintofscience.us for the opportunity and to NYC for the great turnout! #pint25

First preprint with MOLI! Congratulations Adam!

Congratulations to Adam on the preprint! Adam’s theory and simulations perfectly explained all of my experimental results. I am very happy to see my rheology experiments with MOLI published. This is the first ever MOLI paper, published even before my own paper. Stay tuned for that one, which will be coming up soon.

Talks went well

It was a fantastic experience to give both talks, one for developmental mechanics and the other for the Indian Society of Developmental Biology. I was concerned about the duration of the talk; 25 minutes is long for a presentation but not too long for a seminar. Last year, I had only done long-form seminars, such as for my PhD defense, postdoc interviews, and invited talks. When I practiced with my current lab mates, it seemed that I was significantly over time. Advice from my boss was helpful; he suggested reducing the number of slides. I counted 22 slides and was able to present my work comfortably. I felt very lucky that the talks were scheduled in the same week. So I wasn’t nervous for too long.

It was a pleasure to present alongside such fantastic individuals. Yamini Ravichandran from Geneva gave an excellent talk about the mechanics of hydra development, and Natasha Shylo from Kansas presented on veiled chameleon development. I gained many new ideas from their talks.

The Q&A session was also very engaging. Personally, I appreciated emails from people after the talk with specific questions or ideas for collaboration.

Will be giving couple of talks in November. Very Excited!

I am going to be giving two seminars back to back in November. Both Developmental Biology ones. Super excited to show off my PhD work.

One talk will be a part of “International Developmental Mechanics Zoom Seminar Series” on 7th November.

Other talk is an inaugral seminar series “Gulmohar” on 11th November from Indian Society of Developmental Biology.

I am grateful for these opportunities and hope to make some meaningful connections with Dev-Bio community.

new minimal website launched.

Revamped the website. I am trying desparately to get this webpage under 1mb, and use no java script. Some things are working, others not. I had to compromise on zoomable images by using lightbox script. Also, math is not working. Blog is still hidden because of reasons.

epithelial mechanics fan club first anniversary

The fan club @EpiMechFC I started is turning 1 year old! 🎉 Thank you all for your support. I even did a small interview for the account. check the link here

jexpnimesh.com is no longer functioning

jexpnimesh.com is no longer functioning. Sadly, I was not able to renew the domain, because of extremely high renewal fees. It seems to be under control of registrar: nominalia.com for one more year, so it is going to be difficult to buy back the domain from another registrar.

started film photography

Bought a cheap reusable point and shoot camera. And starting to snap photos. I have no clue how the photos will turn out.

Move to NYC and stated a new job @columbia

I am starting as a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University with Prof. Nandan Nerurkar. Let’s just say that I have arrived in such great turmoil that I can’t even enter the campus. Google: Columbia Protests.

Seminar at IISc, Bengaluru

It was incredible to spend time at IISc Bengaluru; meet friends and professors; The talk went well; QnA was insightful. Thanks to Prof. Gundiah for inviting me and letting me share my work at AR auditorium, where all the cool people give talks. Also, gifting me a very nice IISc t-shirt. click here.

Vacation time!

Friends, I am finally going on vacation! Doing a proper trip to India after 2019. I am going to meet family, and friends, and also do tourism. Sorry in advance, I will reply to the emails after coming back from India. Ciao!

Got the postdoc

It’s official people, I am going to be joining postdoctoral scientist position at Columbia University, New York City with Prof. Nandan Nerurkar. Incredibly excited to work with little chicken embryos.

First invited talk in India

First ever invited talk at prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru at my department of mechanical engineering. They have made a poster for me and everything check it out here.

postdoc interviews went well

After a couple of interviews and speaking with many people, I’ve chosen a position and will start my postdoc in mid-spring 2024. Can’t share details yet as I haven’t signed anything.

My work is in the museum

My scientific poster is featured in the exhibition “A=A, B=B” at the Antoni Tàpies Foundation, curated by Pep Vidal. You can read more here.

wish me luck

Interviewing for postdoc positions in United States of America. Wish me luck!

I am on catalan radio

Attended Barcelona International Community Day 2023 and got featured on a radio program done by catalan news

Congratulations!!

Partner defended her thesis. Congratulations!!! Dra. Judith Cantó Santos.

poster presentation at IBEC symposium

Presented poster at 16th IBEC annual Symposium on Bioengineering for Future and Precision Medicine.

Talked at CATCAT day

Gave a presentation at XXIX Jornada de Biologia Molecular de la SCB / 1st CATCAT Day.

Join the club!!!

Started the Epithelial Mechanics Fan Club. It will be an international network of scientists working in the field, and be useful repository of the papers. You can find the twitter account here.

It's Dr. Chahare now!!!!!

Successfully defended my PhD thesis. The presentation and viva went well, and it was quite an emotional event. I have incredible friends. You can read my thesis (here).

PhD Defense happening soon!

I will defend my thesis on 20th June 2023 at UPC Faculty of Mathematics.

Thesis submitted! Phew!!

Submitted my PhD thesis to Doctoral School of Polytechnic University of Catalonia at Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics. Title: Mechanics of Epithelial tissue subjected to controlled pressure.

DPG SKM 2023

Presented my PhD work at Dresden, Germany in Tissue mechanics section of DPG (German Physics Society Spring Meeting). Title: Harnessing active viscoelasticity for synthetic epithelial morphogenesis (read more).

Come see my origami

Showcasing an artwork ‘Organic Origami’ at CCCB teatre as part of Biennal Ciutat i Ciencia. Also, participated in a roundtable discussion on “Why should the scientific community be interested in art?” (read more).

Going to Germany

Selected for a talk at DPG (German Physics Society Spring Meeting). I will be traveling to Dresden Germany on 26th March 2023. Title: Harnessing active viscoelasticity for synthetic epithelial morphogenesis (read more).

Giving talk soon

Invited to give a talk at IBEC’s PhD discussion event on my thesis work. Title: Mechanics of epithelia under controlled pressure (read more).

Best poster prize!

Won the best poster prize at 15th IBEC SYMPOSIUM on Bioengineering for Active Ageing, Barcelona for more.

Gave a talk in Taipei (sadly, online)

Presented my PhD work in a short talk at the World congress of biomechanics, Taipei, Taiwan.

Another talk!

Gave a talk at EMBL-IBEC Conference, Engineering multicellular systems, Barcelona, Spain on “Synthetic epithelial morphogenesis through controlled stretching and buckling.”

Presented my work at Heidelberg

Traveled to Heidelberg, Germany to present my PhD work in EMBO-EMBL Symposium: Mechanobiology in development and disease.

Got Interviewed

European Commission’s Mechanocontrol website interviewed me for my project on stretching device called MISTI. (Read more)