If you are always looking to improve yourself as well as the others around you, SKB lab is a right option for you. This is the first set of plants grown in SKB Lab.

in Photo: Jin Hsien Choo, Emma Mayers, Chin Lin Wong, Suresh, David Richter and Tony Bui

Sourav Mukherjee

Sourav is an enterprising PhD student, who is exploring the epigenetic mechanisms underlying thermal responses using computational genetics and molecular biology. Sourav also actively contributes as a postgraduate committee member or a plantae fellow or other avenues of academic pursuit.  

Aaryan Chhabra

Aaryan came from IISER, Pune as a Master's thesis student and joined the lab for PhD in 2024. Aaryan is interested in uncovering the principles governing splicing and how genotypes, tissues, species influence these choices.

Ramya Ganesan

Ramya joined the lab for a PhD after completing Masters from IIT-Kharagpur. Ramya is interested in exploring how plants sense and respond to changes in temperature using every tool that is available!

Dhruv Sheth

Dhruv joined the lab to do his Honours and is pushing the boundaries on our understanding of genes and mechanisms underlying epigenetic gene silencing in Friedreich ataxia. Dhruv intends to set a record of fastest PhD in the lab!

James Georges

James came to SKB lab as a volunteer when he joined Monash and came back to do an Honours project in the lab. James started to work with Drosophila in the lab. James is exploring how splicing changes might be contributing to cancer.

Param Ahuja - Lab Manager

Param joined SKB lab to do an Industry placement as a part of his Masters in Biotechnology and continuing as a Lab Manager. Before you draw conclusions, Param surely does not work as a real estate agent!

Sureshkumar Balasubramanian

Sureshkumar Malluppatti Balasubramanian @ Suresh is interested in uncovering generalizable principles in biology. He provides great help to his group members by not interfering in their progress! In addition he is passionate to promote awareness of unconscious bias and systemic racism in Academia and strives to promote research ethics and integrity.

Chandan Pradhan

Chandan is our Monash-IITB academy student working on our collaborative project with Prof Rajesh Patkar from IIT-Mumbai. Chandan is exploring how pathogens may reprogram of the host transcriptomes shedding light of plant-pathogen interactions.

Zeik Hargreaves

Zeik joined the lab as an undergraduate Industry Placement student in 2024. Zeik liked plants so much that he continues to explore thermal responses in plants.  

Kai Wei Tan

Kai Wei joined the SKB Lab in 2024 to carry out his Masters thesis in Biotechnology. Kai Wei is interested in using CRISPR-base editing to assess genetic variation on splicing.