Mayuri Rege
Principal Investigator
mayurirege [at] ruiacollege.edu
Scholar Citations
@MayuriRege

Mayuri received her Masters in Biology from T.I.F.R in Mumbai. She received her PhD from UMass, Worcester in 2015. There, she worked with Dr. Craig Peterson to understand the effect of chromatin remodeling enzymes and chromatin dynamics on non-coding RNA transcription.

Mayuri did her postdoc in Jennifer Phillips-Cremins’ lab in the Bioengineering Dept at Univ. of Pennsylvania. There, she developed a tool to form 3D genome contacts using light as an inducer.

In September 2017, Mayuri started her lab as a DST-INSPIRE Faculty in the Department of Microbiology at Ruia College.

Mugdha Belwalkar
Graduate Student
(Joint with Dr. Anushree Lokur)
mugdhambelwalkar [at] gmail.com

Mugdha obtained her Bachelors’ in Microbiology from Ruia college and her Masters from MSU, Baroda where she worked on Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria.

She was an instructor for the student team from Ruia that won the Gold medal at iGEM-2018.

Chinmay Palkar
Master Project Student

Chinmay completed his Bachelor’s from Royal College of Arts, Commerce and Science.
He is adapting chromoproteins for use as affordable reporter systems.

Anagha Panchal
Master Project Student

Exploring use of tannases against Paan stains

Mansi Gawande
Master Project Student

Kill switches – their comparison and improvement

Pratibha Bhalekar
Master Project Student

Exploring properties of locally sourced Pichia strains