Meera Anand
Active & Past Projects

Research

An overview of ongoing and completed research projects run by the lab.

PROJ · 01 Ongoing Funded by DBT-Wellcome India Alliance · 2023 – Present

Mapping proteostasis collapse in aging neurons

Using single-cell imaging and simulation to understand why aging neurons lose the ability to correctly fold and repair proteins, with implications for neurodegenerative disease.

PROJ · 02 Ongoing Funded by DST-SERB · 2022 – Present

Open computational tools for low-resource labs

Building and maintaining OpenFold-Lite, a free simulation toolkit designed to run on standard lab computers rather than dedicated compute clusters.

PROJ · 03 Completed Funded by IISc Seed Grant · 2019 – 2022

Chaperone response modelling under thermal stress

A completed project mapping how molecular chaperones respond to acute heat shock across multiple cell types, forming the basis for three published papers.

PROJ · 04 Completed Funded by ETH Zürich Postdoc Grant · 2016 – 2019

Graph-based prediction of membrane protein misfolding

Early work developing the graph neural network approach later published in Nature Structural Biology.