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

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

J. Antani, R. Gupta, A. H. Lee, M. D. Manson, and P. P. Lele, “Mechanosensitive recruitment of stator units promotes binding of the response regulator CheY-P to the flagellar motor”, Nature Communications, 2021
J. Antani, A. X Sumali, T. P. Lele, P.P. Lele, “Asymmetric random walks reveal that the chemotaxis network modulates flagellar rotational bias in Helicobacter pylori”, eLife, 2021
J. Yang, R. Chawla, K. Rhee, R. Gupta, M. Manson, A. Jayaraman, P. P. Lele, “Biphasic chemotaxis of Escherichia coli to the microbiota metabolite indole”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2020
P.P. Lele, T. Roland, A. Shrivastava, Y. Chen, H. C. Berg, “The flagellar motor of Caulobacter crescentus generates more torque when a cell swims backward.”, Nature Physics, 2016
P. P. Lele, Basarab G. Hosu, H. C. Berg, “Dynamics of mechanosensing in the bacterial flagellar motor”, Proceedings of the National of Academy of Sciences, USA, 2013