2012-2017- Ph.D. in Biology. National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR), Bangalore, India (Advisor: Prof. Raghu Padinjat & Prof. Shobhona Sharma ). Research Areas: Developmental cell biology, Lipid signaling, Membrane trafficking.
2008-2012- Research fellow in Biology. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. (Supervisor: Dr. V. Sriram.) Research Areas: Developmental cell biology, Mitochondrial remodeling during cell death.
2006-2008- M.Sc. in Genetics. University of Delhi, South campus, New Delhi, India.
2003-2006- B.Sc. (Hons) in Biomedical Sciences. Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
2017-2024- Postdoctoral Fellow. Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Rehovot, Israel. (Advisors: Prof. Ben-Zion Shilo &Prof. Ori Avinoam). Research Areas: Cell and developmental Biology, Biophysics, Cellular structural biology.
Membrane remodelling during cellular exocrine secretion: Investigating how cells preserve surface integrity under continuous vesicle fusion and recycling events.
Membrane biophysics and cell biology of membrane reservoirs: Understanding physicochemical properties of membranes in maintaining cellular membrane reservoirs.
Lipid signalling regulating membrane curvature, trafficking, and cellular homeostasis.
Live Imaging of organelle dynamics to quantify organelle function and behaviour.
Correlative (Light and Electron) Microscopy, high-throughput cellular electron microscopy data acquisition and cellular electron tomography for detailed structural-functional studies.
2024- Ramalingaswamy Re-entry Fellowship, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India
2021- Israeli Society for Developmental Biology (IsSDB) award for ‘cool paper’ of 2021, for my publication- Kamalesh, K. et al. Dev. Cell, 2021, describing a new pathway of exocytosis.
2018- American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) travel award.
2018- Dean’s fellowship award for postdoctoral researchers, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Israel.
2015- Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (DBT-CTEP) travel award, for attending international conferences.
2015- NCBS annual meeting themed ‘Biology across scales’ best poster award and travel grant, for attending international conferences.
2015- American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) travel award.
2008- CSIR-UCG National Eligibility Test (NET) qualification and fellowship to pursue research and lectureship in India.
2008- South Campus endorsement scholarship for toppers in master’s in science programs, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
2007- Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS), Indian Nation Sciences Academy (INSA) and National Academy of sciences (NASI)- summer research fellowship for young enthusiasts in research.
2006- Monsanto’s postgraduate award and scholarship for securing the top position in all India entrance exam for Master in Genetics program, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
American Society for Cell Biology
Kamalesh, K., Segal, D., Avinoam, O., Schejter, E.D., and Shilo, B.-Z. Structured RhoGEF recruitment drives myosin II organization on large exocytotic vesicles. J Cell Sci. 2024 Jul 1;137(13):jcs261944.
Exocytosis by vesicle crumpling maintains apical membrane homeostasis during exocrine secretion. K. Kamalesh, N. Scher, T. Biton, E. D. Schejter, B. Z. Shilo, O. Avinoam, Dev. Cell. 56, 1603-1616 (2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.05.004
Phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate 4-kinase regulates early endosomal dynamics during clathrin-mediated endocytosis. K. Kamalesh, D. Trivedi, S. Toscano, S. Sharma, S. Kolay, P. Raghu, J. Cell Sci. 130 (2017). DOI: 10.1242/jcs.202259
A dPIP5K Dependent Pool of Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) is Required for G-Protein Coupled Signal Transduction in Drosophila Photoreceptors. P. Chakrabarti, S. Kolay, S. Yadav, K. Kumari, A. Nair, D. Trivedi, P. Raghu, PLoS Genet. 11, 1004948 (2015). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004948
2023- The Indian Drosophila Research Conference (InDRC), Trivandrum, India (selected talk and oral presentation award)
2023- Young Investigator’s meeting (YIM), Ahmedabad, India (selected talk and poster).
2022- Research Group Leadership course for postdoctoral fellows by hfp consulting, WIS, Israel
2021- American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), virtual meeting, USA (poster).
2021- Annual meeting of the Israeli Society for Developmental Biology, (invited talk for ‘Cool paper award), virtual meeting, WIS, Israel.
2021- National Post-Doctoral Symposia, virtual meeting, India (selected talk)
2021- Molecular Membrane Biology online conference in place of the GRC, virtual meeting (selected talk and poster).
2020- American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), virtual meeting, USA (poster).
2020- EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Organoids: Modelling Organ Development and Disease in 3D Culture, virtual meeting.
