This is Dipam, and I joined Dr Laura Alvarez’s group in June 2025 as a student intern. Biology has always fascinated me with its magnificent complexity from the organism level to the cellular level. As a lover of Physics, I have always tried to elucidate the underlying complexity of living systems in terms of laws derived from Physics. I am associated with Prof Mohammed Saleem’s lab in India, where I am trying to investigate the propagation of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s via protein and membrane interaction, by modelling synthetic neuronal vesicles as a membrane mimic. Exploring this domain further, I went to work in Prof Anand Srivastava’s group at IISc, Bengaluru, India. There, I tried my hand on the same experimental conditions using Molecular Dynamics simulation, to understand the interaction between protein and membrane using computational tools. Currently at Dr Laura Alvarez’s group, I am trying to reconstitute and fabricate the vesicles and scrape through the fluctuation driven by thermal perturbation and colloidal particles.

 

Apart from my time at the labs, I am an avid fan of world cinema and literature. If you are interested, drop by me to discuss Ray, Tarantino and Dostoyevsky.