• Investigation of stress responses as determinants of artemisinin resistance and cellular heterogeneity in Plasmodium falciparum 

  Rawat, Mukul (Dept. of Biology, 2020-04)

  Plasmodium falciparum has evolved resistance to almost all front-line drugs including artemisinins, which threatens malaria control and elimination strategies. Oxidative stress and protein damage responses have emerged as ...
• Regulation of Nanoparticle-Reactant Interaction Outplays Ligand Poisoning in Metal Nanoparticle Catalyzed Reactions 

  Roy, Soumendu (Dept. of Chemistry, 2020-06)

  Surface ligands are ubiquitous in colloidal nanoscience. They provide the colloidal stability to nanoparticles (NPs) as well as dictate most of their physicochemical properties. However, in the area of catalysis, the ligands ...
• Investigating small scale particle acceleration events at the sun and its implications for coronal heating 

  James, Tomin K (Dept. of Physics, 2019-10)

  Particle acceleration in the Solar atmosphere is an ill-understood problem. This lack of understanding creates impediments in our knowledge about how energy is generated and transported in the solar atmosphere. Studies ...
• Studying the Physics of Excitons in Semiconductor Quantum Heterostructures 

  Bhunia, Amit (Dept. of Physics, 2020-01)

  Semiconductor science and technology has experienced a giant leap in the last few decades due to the invention of sophisticated instruments for efficient growth of semiconductor materials. These eventually facilitated the ...
• Porous Framework Materials for Gas Separation and Catalysis 

  Chakraborty, Debanjan (2020-05)

  Separation of two molecules is always challenging and researchers have come up with novel techniques to achieve these targets. Introduction of porous materials generates a new research topic for such applications. Development ...
• Dynamics-based Recognition Mechanism of dsRBD-dsRNA interaction 

  Paithankar, Harshad (2020-04)

  The broad range of cellular activities – ranging from cell-growth, development, to death – involves interaction between double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) and dsRNA-binding domains (dsRBDs). The dsRBDs are known to interact ...
• Role of Formin-2 in actin-microtubule coordination during axonal pathfinding and it's characterization in axonal branching 

  Kundu, Tanushree (2019-04)

  Neural circuits are formed by directed translocation of axonal growth cones to their synaptic targets and specific patterns of branching. The axon, with the growth cone at the tip, moves in a directed fashion by sensing ...
• Design and Synthesis of organic and organic-inorganic hybrid materials for mechanical energy Harvesting applications 

  Singh, Sachin; Singh, Sachin (2020-03)

  Use of electronic devices has become an integral part of our day to day activities; a major part of it is associated with storing, receiving, and sending information. The domains of piezoelectricity and triboelectricity ...
• Gabber's Presentation Lemma 

  Kulkarni, Girish (2020-02)

  Gabber’s presentation lemma is a foundational result in A 1 -homotopy theory. This result can be thought of as an algebro-geometric analog of the tubular neighborhood theorem in differential geometry. Similar to tubular ...
• Search for Supersymmetry in proton-proton collisions at sqrt_S=13 TeV with jets, b-jets and missing transverse momentum 

  Rane, Aditee (2020-02)

  Standard Model of elementary particles (SM) explains various physical phenomena occurring in the world around us in the terms of participating fundamental particles and interactions among these particles. The particle ...
• Interaction of angular momentum carrying optical beams with a single nanowire 

  Sharma, Deepak Kumar (2020-01)

  Angular momentum (AM) is an inherent property of electromagnetic fields. A light beam can possess both spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM). SAM and OAM are results of transverse spin and orbital ...
• Design, Synthesis and Characterization of “Janus-PNAs”: Novel Backbone Analogues That Form Double Duplexes With cDNA 

  Gupta, Manoj (2020-02)

  The thesis entitled ‘’Design, Synthesis and characterization of “Janus PNAs”: Novel PNA backbone analogues that form double duplexes with cDNA’’ is comprised of studies towards the design, synthesis, biophysical evaluation ...
• NMR Characterization and Control of Noisy Quantum Systems 

  Khurana, Deepak (2020-02)

  A register, storing quantum information, invariably interacts with its surrounding environment and consequently gets exposed to environmental noises. Ensuring fault-tolerance against environmental noise is vital in unlocking ...
• Self-Assembled Graphene oxide Nanoparticles for Damaging DNA in Cancer Cells 

  Nandi, Aditi (2019-12)

  Cancer is a multifactorial mutagenic disease making it one of the leading causes of death globally. The complexity and heterogeneity associated with cancer presents a challenging problem with respect to its treatment. In ...
• Theta guided sequences in the medial entorhinal cortex 

  Neru, Arun (2019-06)

  Grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (mEC) fire at the vertices of a hexagonal grid that tiles the entire space an animal explores. This pattern serves as an allocentric coordinate system for animals to integrate ...
• Exploring Selenium Hydrogen Bonding through Gas Phase Spectroscopy Coupled with Quantum Chemical Calculations 

  Mishra, Kamal Kumar; Mishra, Kamal Kumar (2019-07)

  Non-covalent interactions play a significant role in the structure and function of biomolecules as well as materials. These weak intermolecular interactions are generally classified into different categories such as hydrogen ...
• Exploring Remanent Magnetization in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction Driven Weak Ferromagnets 

  Pattanayak, Namrata (2020-01)

  The phenomenon of weak ferromagnetism, observed in some otherwise antiferromagnets (AFMs) such as in α- Fe2O3, MnCO3, CoCO3, is associated with a spin canting mechanism related to the well-known Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya ...
• Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Small Molecules for Profiling Thiol Proteome of Microbes 

  Kulkarni, Amogh (2020-01)

  Thiols are biologically important molecules and play a vital role in a number of cellular processes. Cysteine is the most important biological thiol, least abundant (3.3%), yet highly conserved on the proteome. Along with ...
• Hierarchical and synergistic self-assembly of wormlike micelle-nanoparticle system : A computational investigation 

  Shaikh, Mubeena (2019-11)

  We use a wormlike micelle model that uniquely gives us the control parameter to change its excluded volume. We show that the model successfully captures the characteristic behaviour of the wormlike micellar system. Using ...
• Dynamical recrossing, internal friction and memory effects: Investigating model systems and drug-DNA intercalation process 

  V M, Hridya (2019-12)

  Recrossing is a dynamical effect that changes the rate calculated using static energy landscape criteria such as transition state theory. Kramers theory predicted that for spatial diffusion regime, recrossing is directly ...

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