26th March 2024: Keshika Gajbhiye joins the group.
2nd March 2024: The group went out for a dinner to celebrate the old and new members of the group.
15th February 2024: Siddhant Kumar joins the group.
3rd January 2024: Bhrat Khattar joins the group.
29th December 2023: The team visited the Centre of Community Medicine and School of Public Health at PGIMER, Sector 15, Chandigarh to better understand the community and environmental health challenges arising from excessive agrochemical use. Dr. Ronika Paika and Dr. Rajbeer Kaur from Dr. J.S. Thakur's group took us around Centre of Sustainable Development, Health and Wellness set up in Gurah Village, Mohali, Punjab.
20th December 2023: Team lunch after completing the Nature's Machines course. Navjot taught modules on Immunology and Biomimicry with the support of her lovely teaching assistants: Shreel S. Prasad, Neelam Sarmah, and Megha Gupta.
18th December 2023: Priya Bansal cleared the admission exam to join the group as a graduate student.
26th June 2023: Priya and Samiksha interview for graduate student admission at Plaksha University.
25th June 2023: Navjot Kaur at North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh for her summer sabbatical.
7th June 2023: We presented our research on enabling safer and sustainable poultry food production to better manage antimicrobial resistance at the 33rd Anniversary World Congress on Biosensors, Busan, South Korea.
10th February 2023: Minal Zala and team embarked on surveying farmers across eight districts in Punjab.