Sreepadmanabh M and Avik Kumar Pal are co-winners of the "Professor Obaid Siddiqi Best Paper Award 2024"

Sreepadmanabh M, graduate student of Dr Tapomoy Bhattacharjee, and Dr Avik Kumar Pal, graduate student of Dr P V Shivaprasad at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru are co-winners of the "Professor Obaid Siddiqi Best Paper Award 2024" awarded by the Central Imaging and Flow Cytometry Facility (CIFF) at BLiSC.

The CIFF Best Paper Award is an annual recognition insitututed by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) in honour of Professor Obaid Siddiqi, and is awarded to outstanding scientific contributions that have utilised the CIFF facilities.

Read their work here:

Sreepadmanabh, M., Ganesh, M., Sanjenbam, P. et al. Cell shape affects bacterial colony growth under physical confinement. Nat Commun 15, 9561 (2024) 

Pal, A.K., Gandhivel, V.HS., Nambiar, A.B. et al. Upstream regulator of genomic imprinting in rice endosperm is a small RNA-associated chromatin remodeler. Nat Commun 15, 7807 (2024).