Interested in Joining?
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​​Postdocs:  
We are constantly looking for highly motivated and talented postdocs. Postdocs are expected to have independent funding and should contact Dr. Sriram Varahan ([email protected]) for discussions about projects in the lab. Submission of proposals for postdoc fellowships like CSIR-RA, DBT-RA, SERB-NPDF, WISE-PDF etc. is highly encouraged.
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Graduate Students:
We are constantly looking for highly motivated and talented graduated students to join the lab for a Ph.D. Interested students should apply to the CSIR-CCMB Ph.D. Program. More information about the Ph.D. program can be found here.

​Dissertation Trainees:
We currently do not have any openings. Kindly check back later for updates.
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Project-based Student Trainees (PBST):
We currently do not have any openings. Kindly check back later for updates.


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Lab News !
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May 2025: New preprint from the Varahan Lab in bioRxiv spearheaded by Dhrumi. Do check it out!

May 2025: The Varahan Lab welcomes Sayantani Biswas as a PBST. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

May 2025: The Varahan Lab welcomes Yogita Martoliya as Project Research Scientist (ICMR). All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

February 2025: The Varahan Lab welcomes Ishvarya Suresh as a Project Associate. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

February 2025: Dr. Sriram Varahan receives the ICMR Extramural (Small) grant from ICMR to develop small molecule inhibitors against fungal pathogens.

January 2025: Dr. Sriram Varahan & Dr. Santosh Chauhan organized the 6th AIN Meeting: Biology Across Scales-Insights from Microbes to Mice, at CSIR-CCMB.

December 2024: Dr. Sriram Varahan gave an invited talk at the International Conference on Recent Developments in Biofilms & Biofouling Control , BARC-Kalpakkam.

November 2024: Dr. Sriram Varahan gave an invited talk at the Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras.

November 2024: Dr. Sriram Varahan gave an invited talk at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences in NISER Bhubaneshwar.

November 2024: The Varahan Lab welcomes Shathya Sekar as a Project Associate. All the best and looking forward to your new avatars in the lab!

June 2024: The Varahan Lab welcomes Mary Shejo & Joel Philip as dissertation trainees. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

June 2024: The Varahan Lab welcomes Ojasvi Chopra as a Project Associate. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

June 2024: Riya and Ashwin successfully complete their master's dissertation project at the Varahan Lab. Congrats and all the very best for your future endeavors.

May 2024: New publication from the Varahan Lab in Trends in Microbiology titled 'Enterococcus faecalis' is out.

​May 2024: Dr. Sudharsan M and Dr. Uma Mahto receive the prestigious DBT-Research Associateship and start their new academic journeys in the Varahan Lab. Welcome!

April 2024: Dr. Sriram Varahan receives the Fast Track Translation (FTT) grant from CSIR to develop a novel mRNA vaccine against JEV.

February 2024: Dr. Sriram Varahan gave an invited talk at the 5th Autophagy India Network Meeting (IIT Bombay).
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January 2024: The Varahan Lab welcomes Ishvarya Suresh as a PBST. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

December 2023: The Varahan Lab welcomes Adishree M and Nikita Rewatkar as Project Associates. All the best and looking forward to your new avatars in the lab!


November 2023: Dr. Sriram Varahan gave an invited talk at the India Investigator Network-Hyderabad Chapter Symposium.

​November 2023: Dr. Sriram Varahan attends the 89th Annual Meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences in Goa.
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October 2023: Dr. Sriram Varahan receives the SERB-Startup Research Grant 

​October 2023: The Varahan Lab welcomes Pallavi Phatak as a graduate student (PhD). All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!


August 2023: Dr. Sriram Varahan is elected as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru.

​July 2023: Dr. Sriram Varahan presented the lab's research work at the India Alliance Annual Conclave 2023 in Hyderabad.

June 2023: The Varahan Lab welcomes Sudharsan M as post-doctoral fellow. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

June 2023: The Varahan Lab welcomes Ashwin Jiju & Riya Bhattacharjee as dissertation trainees. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

May 2023: The Varahan Lab welcomes Nikita Rewatkar as a PBST. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

May 2023: Purva Tawde successfully completes her master's dissertation project at the Varahan Lab. Congrats and all the very best for your future endeavors.

April 2023: The Varahan Lab bids farewell to Avanti Vairagkar (project associate) & Neha Dondapati (PBST). We wish all the very best for all your future endeavors.

March 2023: The Varahan Lab attends the HySci 2023 meeting. Dhrumi and Nivedhitha presented their research posters. 

March 2023: The Varahan Lab attends the Yeast India 2023 meeting @IISER Mohali from March 10-12. Dr. Sriram Varahan delivered an invited talk and Dhrumi and Nivedhitha presented their research posters. 

February 2023:​ Dhrumi's and Nivedhitha's abstracts are selected for a research poster presentation at the HySci 2023 meeting. Congrats!

February 2023: Dhrumi's and Nivedhitha's abstracts are selected for a research poster presentation at the Yeast India 2023 meeting @IISER Mohali from March 10-12. Congrats!

January 2023: Vinit Sahu successfully completes his master's dissertation project at the Varahan Lab. Congrats and all the very best for your future endeavors.

January 2023: The Varahan Lab welcomes Purva Tawde as a dissertation Trainee and Adishree M as a PBST. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

January 2023: New book chapter from the Varahan Lab titled 'Unity in Diversity: Interkingdom Polymicrobial Biofilms in Disease' is out.

December 2022: The Varahan Lab bids farewell to Sasi Bhushan, the first project associate. We wish all the very best for all your future endeavors.

​December 2022: The Varahan Lab welcomes Nivedhitha R, as a project associate. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!
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November 2022: The Varahan Lab welcomes Avanti Vairagkar, as a project associate. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

October 2022: The Varahan Lab welcomes Neha Dondapati as a PBST. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!
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September 2022: The Varahan Lab welcomes Dhrumi Shah as a graduate student (PhD). All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

August 2022: The Varahan Lab welcomes Vinit Sahu as a dissertation trainee. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

July 2022: The Varahan Lab welcomes Nivedhitha R as a PBST. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

June 2022: The Varahan Lab welcomes Nabhonil Chatterji as a summer trainee for 2 months. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

April 2022: The Varahan Lab welcomes its first member, Sasi Bhushan as a project associate. All the best and looking forward to your time in the lab!

December 2021: The Varahan Lab begins its journey at CSIR-CCMB!
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