Pushkar Lele

Educational Background

Postdoctoral Research, Harvard University – 2015
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware – 2010
B.E., Chemical Engineering, Mumbai University Institute of Chemical Technology, India – 2005

- Cell mechanics and antibacterial testing
- Prevention of cancer by microbes
- Nanobiotechnology and protein engineering
- Biological and soft-matter physics

Engineering Grant Genesis Award, Texas A&M University – 2023
Young Investigator Award, Cells journal – 2018
Engineering Grant Genesis Award, Texas A&M University – 2018
High Risk High Impact Research Award, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas – 2017
Best poster award, 20th Annual Boston Bacterial Meeting, Cambridge, MA – 2014
Semifinalist, Burroughs Wellcome Fund Careers at the Scientific Interface – 2013
Robert Macnab award for Outstanding presentation by a young investigator, Bacterial locomotion and Signal transduction Conference, New Orleans, LA – 2011
Best poster award, 11th Tiger-Hen-Hawk (Princeton-Delaware-Lehigh) Rheology Symposium, Newark, DE – 2008

P.P. Lele, et al. “Mechanosensitive recruitment of stator units promotes binding of the response regulator CheY-P to the flagellar motor”, Nature Communications, 2021
P.P. Lele, et al. “Asymmetric random walks reveal that the chemotaxis network modulates flagellar rotational bias in Helicobacter pylori”, eLife, 2021
P.P. Lele, et al. “Biphasic chemotaxis of Escherichia coli to the microbiota metabolite indole”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2020
P.P. Lele, et al. “The flagellar motor of Caulobacter crescentus generates more torque when a cell swims backward.”, Nature Physics, 2016
P.P. Lele, et al. “Dynamics of mechanosensing in the bacterial flagellar motor”, Proceedings of the National of Academy of Sciences, USA, 2013