Faculty at School of Natural Sciences

Gaurav Singh

Gaurav Singh

Assistant Professor

School of Natural Sciences


Contact Information

Fluorescence lifetime sensing and imaging, Metabolic imaging, Organelle biology, Membrane biophysics Machine Learning, Disease and diagnostics, Technology entrepreneurship

2010-2015     Nanoscale Science Ph.D. Program, Advised by Prof. Marcus Jones,Chemistry Dept., University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA.

2005-2009     Bachelor of Engineering in Manufacturing, Processes & Automation, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (N.S.I.T), Delhi University, India.

2024-2026      Research Associate, Sunil Laxman Lab, BRIC-inStem

2020-2024      DBT-Research Associate, Sunil Laxman Lab, BRIC-inStem

2018-2020      Postdoc Fellow, Akash Gulyani Lab, BRIC-inStem

  1. Research Paper selected as one of the finalists for TNQ Inspiring Science Award 2026 for the best published Life Sciences paper by a student from India.
  2. Winner of Zeeshan Khan Memorial Award 2025 given by NCBS and DSS-Imagetech for excellence in light microscopy.
  3. Selected as a finalist for TNQ Inspiring Science Award 2024 for the best published Life Sciences paper by a student from India.
  4. Co-winner of CIFF Award for Best Paper – 2023 annually chosen by Imaging and Flow facility at NCBS in the memory of Prof. Obaid Siddiqi.
  5. Co-winner of Zeeshan Khan Memorial Award 2023 given by NCBS and DSS-Imagetech for excellence in light microscopy.

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  1. Singh, G# and Laxman, S., “Lighting up mitochondrial membranes: Linking physical organization to electron transfer and redox signaling”, Current opinion in Chemical Biology, in press (2026).
  2. Singh, G., Vaidya, k., Laxman, S., “Design principles and architecture of cellular nutrient signaling”, Annual Review of Genetics, in press (2026).
  3. Singh, G#., Ponuvel, P., Dighe, R., Sivaraman, G., Kumar, P., Gulyani, A., Designing Molecular rotors for High-resolution STED imaging of Mitochondria, (in review, 2026).
  4. Singh, G*., Vengayil, V*., Khanna, A., Adhikary, S., Laxman, S., Active control of mitochondrial network morphology by metabolism driven redox state, PNAS 122, e2421953122 (2025).
  5. Singh, G., George, G., Raja, S., Kandaswamy, P., Kumar, M., Thutupalli, S., Laxman, S., Gulyani, A., A molecular rotor FLIM probe reveals dynamic coupling between mitochondrial inner membrane fluidity and cellular respiration, PNAS 120, e2213241120 (2023).
  6. Raja, S. O., Sivaraman, G., Biswas, S., Singh, G., Kalim, F., Kandaswamy, P., & Gulyani, A., A Tunable Palette of Molecular Rotors Allows Multicolor, Ratiometric Fluorescence Imaging and Direct Mapping of Mitochondrial Heterogeneity, ACS Applied Bio Materials. 2021, 4, 5, 4361–4372.
  7. Kaushal, M., Ortiz, A.L., Kassel, J.A., Hall, N., Lee, T.D., Singh, G., Walter, M.G., Enhancing Exciton Diffusion in Porphyrin Thin Films using Peripheral Carboalkoxy Groups to Influence Molecular Assembly, Mater. Chem. C 4, 5602–5609 (2016).
  8. Marin, M.D., Payerpaj, S., Collier, G.S., Ortiz, A.L., Singh, G., Jones, M., Walter, M.G., Efficient Intersystem Crossing using Singly Halogenated Carbomethoxyphenyl Porphyrins Measured using Delayed Fluorescence, Chemical Quenching, and Singlet Oxygen Emission, Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 29090-29096 (2015).
  9. Singh, G., Guericke, M. A., Song, Q. & Jones, M., A Multipulse Time-Resolved Fluorescence Method for Probing Second-Order Recombination Dynamics in Colloidal Quantum Dots, Phys. Chem. C 118, 14692–14702 (2014).
  10. Singh, G., Choudhary, A., Haranath, D., Joshi, A.G., Singh, N., Singh, S., Pasricha, R., Zno Decorated Luminescent Graphene as a Potential Gas Sensor at Room Temperature, Carbon 50, 385–394 (2012).
  11. Singh, G., Srivastava, A.K., Senthil, K., Tawale, J.S., Deepa, M., Yong, K., Structural, Optical and Electrical Properties of Nano-Structured Cd:ZnO Thin Films Prepared via Sol–Gel Derived Spin Coating Method, Nanoeng. Nanomanufacturing 1, 77–83 (2011).
  12. Singh, G., Choudhary, A., Seshadri, T.R., Excitation of Coherent States: Wave Function Development and Analysis, ArXiv14120841 Quant-Ph (2009).
  13. Singh, G., Tan, R., Castaneda, J., Greytak, A.B. & Jones, M., Plasmon Coupling to Multi-Excited States in Colloidal Quantum Dots, (unpublished).

Selected Invited talks

  1. Invited talk at Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad, Aug 2025. How membrane organization and shape of organelles regulate function?
  2. Invited talk at Centre for Stem Cell Research, CMC Vellore, June 2025. Multiphoton imaging in biology: opportunities and challenges. YouTube link
  3. Invited talk at Dept of Biology at IIT mandi, April 2025. Uncovering Mitochondrial Function and Dynamics: New Markers and Mechanisms Through Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging.
  4. Invited talk at CDFD Hyderabad, Dec 2024.
  5. Invited talk in Dept of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, June, 2023. How mitochondrial inner membrane fluidity might regulate respiration?

Selected Oral Presentations

  1. Junior Scientist Workshop on Imaging Techniques and Molecular Tools for Biology, Janelia Research Campus, Virginia, May 2023. How dynamic modulation of mitochondrial inner membrane fluidity might regulate respiration?
  2. NCBS Annual Talks 2023, Bangalore. Is "form follows function" true for mitochondrial networks?
  3. Flash talk at 42nd Mahabaleshwar Seminars: Mitochondria Network Meeting held at IISER Pune, Is "form follows function" true for mitochondrial networks?
  4. Cell Bio Virtual 2021- An Online ASCB|EMBO meeting, Dec 2021. Decoupling Mitochondrial Morphology and Activity as a Function of Metabolic State.
  5. MRS spring conference, San Francisco, 2015. A Multi‐Pulse Time‐Correlated Single Photon Counting technique for probing multi‐exciton and charged State fluorescence in colloidal quantum dots.