Anu has always been fascinated by the diversity of life.  His interest in various life forms developed into a hobby of collecting a variety of animal and plant species, especially butterflies and ferns. Therefore, it was only natural that he chose Biology as his field of study. Anu acknowledges the contribution of his parents in encouraging and motivating him to choose his own life path. Anu excelled in his academic career all through as a young student. Anu saved some money to buy a simple microscope to observe life in a bit more detail and spent hours examining anything that he could lay his hands on, starting from blood cells from different species. Anu completed M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Department of Biotechnology, the University of Kerala in 2017, ranking first. During this period, he did an internship under DBT- Biotech Industrial Training Programme (BITP) at Novozymes Bangalore, worked on ‘enzyme application in herbal extraction’. Anu enjoyed attending conferences and scientific meetings that he feels enhanced his horizon. Anu is fascinated by the advent of recombinant DNA technology and hopes to employ some of the tools to address long-standing questions in stem cell biology. He works on the metabolic regulation of hematopoietic emergence in the mouse embryo. Anu is an artist at heart, loves clay craft, gardening (he loves growing ferns), watching sci-fi movies. 

Contact: anupv18@iisertvm.ac.in