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The people

A real team behind the science.

A principal investigator, a working research group, and more than two dozen alumni — plus Reflections, where Dr. Joshi writes about new work, talks, and the field.

Principal Investigator
Dr. Mohan C. Joshi

Dr. Mohan C. Joshi

Principal Investigator · Assistant Professor (UGC-FRP), MCARS, JMI

Dr. Joshi works at the intersection of molecular genetics and nanotechnology on the antimicrobial-resistance crisis — pairing new ways to treat resistant infection with new ways to detect it, grounded in the basic science of how bacterial genomes stay stable and how resistance evolves.

Education

Ph.D. Biotechnology (2008) & M.Sc. Biotechnology (2001), Jawaharlal Nehru University; B.Sc. (Zoology, Botany, Chemistry), Meerut College.

Training & prior roles

Postdoctoral Associate (2008–2015), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; Ramalingaswami Fellow & group head (2015–2016), CDFD, Hyderabad.

Fellowships & honours

DBT–Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship (2016); Ramanujan Fellowship (2015); Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship (2015).

Scholarly identity

ORCID · Google Scholar · ResearchGate · LinkedIn

The research group

Current scholars

The people doing the work, day to day.

Shabina Quadir
Shabina Quadir
Ph.D. Scholar · ICMR-SRF · 2017–

Tackling antimicrobial resistance with nanobiotechnology; first author, ACS Nano (2023).

Amir Faraz
Amir Faraz
Ph.D. Scholar · DBT-SRF · 2019–

The functionalised gold-nanoparticle platform; co-author, ACS Nano (2023); co-inventor on the 2023 nanoparticle patent.

Nuha Abeer Khan
Nuha Abeer Khan
Ph.D. Scholar · PMRF · 2020–

“DNA-break biosensor” — RecA–gold-nanoparticle conjugates that detect DNA double-strand breaks.

Naima Syed
Naima Syed
Research Scholar

Molecular genetics & nanobiotechnology.

Ifra
Ifra
Research Scholar

Molecular genetics & nanobiotechnology.

Hamna Syed
Hamna Syed
Research Scholar

Molecular genetics & nanobiotechnology.

Alumni

A roll of honour — 24 researchers trained

Mentorship is part of the work. Alumni have gone on across academia and industry since 2018.

Deepak K. Singh
Deepak K. Singh
Ph.D. · Alumnus

Chromosome cohesion in DNA double-strand-break repair in E. coli — foundational work in the lab’s genome-stability programme.

  • Sumbal MSc dissertation · 2025
  • Mohd Zeeshan MSc dissertation · 2025
  • Alfiya MSc dissertation · 2025
  • Keerthana INSA Summer Research Fellow · 2025
  • Meryam
  • Sidra ICMR Project-JRF · 2023–24
  • Asad Research intern · 2023
  • Partha Gala M.Tech dissertation · 2023
  • Ananya Bose INSA SRF · 2023
  • Chitvan Sharma M.Sc dissertation · 2021
  • Hina Malik M.Sc dissertation · 2021
  • Jyoti Varshney M.Sc dissertation · 2021
  • Harshita Pant M.Sc dissertation · 2021
  • Nazma Wani M.Sc dissertation · 2021
  • Aaliya M.Sc dissertation · 2020
  • Maleeha M.Sc dissertation · 2020
  • Monika Bisht M.Sc dissertation · 2019
  • Rupali Singh M.Sc dissertation · 2019
  • Shreya Joshi INSA SRF · 2019
  • Sneha P. Nair INSA SRF · 2019
  • Aishwarya Kodavoor INSA SRF · 2019
  • Divya Jain M.Sc dissertation · 2018
  • Akanksha Negi M.Sc dissertation · 2018
Life in the lab

A real, happy group

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Reflections

Dr. Joshi, thinking out loud

Short, plain-language notes triggered by real lab life — a new paper, a conference, a talk, a development in the field. Built up over time.

Trigger · a paper is accepted

On a new paper

What the lab just published and why it matters, without the jargon.

Trigger · back from a conference

From a conference

Two or three honest takeaways on where the field is moving.

Trigger · after a talk

After a talk

The core idea presented, with slides or abstract linked.

Trigger · news in the field

On the field

A considered take on a new finding in AMR, phage, or nanodiagnostics.

From a conference
May 2025
Three currents in phage therapy I brought home. Where clinical phage work is quietly maturing — and where the field still disagrees.
On a new paper
Mar 2025
Reading DNA damage without touching the genome. Our RecA-nanoconjugate approach, explained for a non-specialist.
On the field
Jan 2025
The AMR numbers that should reorder our priorities. What recent surveillance data changes for a lab like ours.

Entries shown are illustrative of the format — real posts will be added over time.

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