Principal Investigator: Ajay Labade

Ajay is a Ramanujan Faculty Fellow at the Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University. Before joining Ashoka University, he was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Harvard University in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology in the laboratory of Dr. Jason Buenrostro, where he led the development of Expansion In Situ Genome Sequencing (ExISGS), a spatial genomics platform that enables in situ sequencing of genomic DNA and nanoscale mapping of chromatin architecture within intact biological samples. Ajay earned his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, where his research uncovered fundamental mechanisms of chromatin organization and gene regulation, with a focus on how nuclear pore complex proteins modulate the spatiotemporal dynamics of gene clusters during cellular differentiation. He was awarded the Building Bharat–Boston Biosciences (B4) Fellowship, supported by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, and joined Harvard University.