• Dissociation Dynamics of Molecules Subject to Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulses 

  SEN, ARNAB (2021-11)

  The probing time for sampling the internal dynamics of a molecular system should be comparable to the time-scale associated with the internal motion in a molecule, which ranges from femtoseconds (fs) to picoseconds (ps). ...
• Synthesis and Evaluation of Small Molecule Generators of Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species 

  SINGH, HARSHIT (2021-09)

  Redox active reactive species derived from oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur are continuously produced in physiological systems and helps in maintaining the redox homeostasis of biological systems. Based on the reactive atom ...
• Application of Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network in Precipitation Forecasting 

  ABHISHEK, NAMIT (2021-08)

  In this work, we use convolutional recurrent neural network-based architectures involving ConvLSTM and ConvGRU for precipitation forecasting over the Indian region. We first compare direct and iterative approach for ...
• Formin-2b (Fmn2b) in the development of neural circuits in zebrafish 

  NAGAR, DHRITI (2021-06)

  The formin family member, Fmn2, is a neuronally enriched cytoskeletal remodelling protein conserved across vertebrates. Recent studies have implicated Fmn2 in neurodevelopmental disorders, including sensory processing ...
• Molecular determinants of stability and nucleobase specificity in flavin biosynthesis enzymes 

  KUMAR, YASHWANT (2021-10)

  Nucleoside triphosphates (NTP) are the building blocks of RNA, and also play a central role in various metabolic pathways. Even though the NTPs - adenosine triphosphate (ATP), guanosine triphosphate (GTP), cytidine ...
• Nose Driven Anemotaxis in Mice 

  ADITHYAN PB, SIDHARTH (2021-08)

  Navigation is essential for the survival of any animal that has a significant motile phase during its life cycle. Furthermore, the ability to sense the flow of the medium that surrounds them can be found even in animals ...
• Phenology of woody species in a seasonally dry tropical forest: Relationship between phenology parameters, and variation between functional groups and habitats with contrasting abiotic conditions 

  CHAKRABARTY, SOUPARNA (2020-12)

  Phenology is the study of the timing of different life cycle events. It is a crucial component of growth and reproduction for both plants and animals that directly influence their fitness. Phenology in plants is not only ...
• Viscoelasticity of single biopolymers using Atomic Force Microscopy 

  RAJPUT, SHATRUHAN SINGH (2021-10)

  Viscoelasticity of single protein molecules is essential to fully understand their dynamic properties and functions. It is also believed that the initial collapse in protein folding is governed by their viscoelasticity. ...
• Mechanisms underlying peptidergic modulation of feeding and feeding-associated behaviours 

  MADUSKAR, ADITI (2021-10)

  Of the various neuromodulatory agents found in the central nervous system, the class of peptide modulators is of particular interest in the context of innate motivated behaviours, wherein they have been shown to modify the ...
• Synthesis of MAG and lyso-PS lipids with varying lipid tails 

  SHAIKH, MINHAJ (2021-09)

  My doctoral research described in this thesis involves the synthesis, and characterization of mono-acyl glycerol (MAG) and lysophosphatidylserine (lyso-PS) lipids with varying lipid tails. PHARC syndrome is a neurodegenerative ...
• Atomic Chains with Rydberg Excitations: Bose-Hubbard Parameters to Correlation Dynamics 

  CHOUGALE, YASHWANT (2021-10)

  Synthetic quantum systems are simplified versions of real-world, complex, quantum many-body systems. They provide a versatile testbed for understanding the complex phenomenons of condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, ...
• Plasmonic Photocatalysis with Anisotropic Nanoparticles 

  B. RAJ, ROHIT (2021-10)

  The energy stored in a photoexcited metal nanoparticle is capable of bringing out various chemical and physical transformations, which forms the basis of plasmonic photocatalysis. The interference from different nonradiative ...
• Understanding phosphatidylserine and sphingolipid metabolism in macrophages 

  MEHENDALE, NEELAY (2021-06)

  Lipids encompass more than 45,000 species and are known to partake in several biological functions. Their diversity and low abundance in biological systems presents a challenge for studying them. In my doctoral research, ...
• Bose-Einstein Condensate Based Atom-Optics Delta-Kicked Rotor For Precision Measurements 

  MANGAONKAR, JAY (2021-10)

  This thesis presents the realization of a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) based Atom-Optics $\delta$-Kicked Rotor experiment (AOKR) using 87Rb atoms and its utility in atom interferometry and precision measurements. The ...
• Dynamical cluster formation of colloids in bacterial bath 

  GOURAV, KUMAR (2021-08)

  Non-equilibrium systems have shown lots of intriguing behavior. Dynamic cluster formation of colloids due to presence of activity in the system is one such example. We here study 2D dynamical cluster of non-Brownian colloidal ...
• Motives of Algebraic Stacks 

  DESHMUKH, NEERAJ (2021-09)

  The study of motives of algebriac stacks was initiated by Bertrand To\"{e}n for Deligne-Mumford stack, and subsequently, developed and extended by various authors to more general alegbraic stacks. There exists considerable ...
• Dynamical Processes on Transportation Networks: Effects on Infectious Disease Spreading 

  BUDAMAGUNTA, MANSI (2021-08)

  In this thesis, we study the spread of an infectious disease in the context of India. For this, we construct a network of 446 cities having a population of over 1 Lakh and study the infection spread using an SIR metapopulation ...
• Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy of some oxide systems 

  SINGH, MOIRANGTHEM BICKY (2021-09)

  In the interminable quest for exciting properties in new materials, the measurements of elastic constants are of great importance. Among various techniques for measuring elastic constants, Resonance Ultrasound Spectroscopy ...
• Deleterious role of centromeric crossovers in chromosomal segregation during meiosis 

  SARKAR, SNEHA (2021-08)

  Crossover formation (CO) during meiotic recombination is one of the important processes that provides right amount of tension for the homologous chromosomes to properly segregate in the first meiotic division (MI). CO ...
• AdS Instability and Nonlinear Perturbations in Confined Geometries 

  MENON, DHANYA S. (2021-08)

  In 2011, Bizon and Rostworowski, through their seminal work, gave numerical evidence that Anti-de Sitter spacetime with reflecting boundary conditions is nonlinearly unstable against black hole formation for a wide range ...

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