• 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). ...
• 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 ...
• 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, ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Post translational regulation of Apoptosis inhibitor 5 (Api5) during cell cycle progression and DNA damage -induced apoptosis 

  SHARMA, VIRENDER KUMAR (2021-09)

  Apoptosis inhibitor 5 (Api5), a known anti-apoptotic protein, is responsible for inhibition of cell death in stressful conditions like serum starvation and DNA damage. Acetylation at K251 is the only known post-translational ...
• Design and Development of Unconventional pH Differential Fuel Cells 

  BHAT, ZAHID (2021-08)

  Electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices such as H2−O2 fuel cells, supercapacitors, and batteries are propelled by their potentiality to construct zero emission energy technologies. Although H2−O2 or proton ...
• Hydraulic traits in seasonally dry tropical forests 

  SUNNY, RON (2020-09)

  Water is essential to sustain plant growth and function, and its availability in space and time is critical in shaping tropical forests. Plant hydraulic traits provide helpful insight into the various strategies that have ...
• Stimulus and post-stimulus olfactory representations in health and disease 

  BHATTACHARJEE, ANINDYA S. (2021-05)

  Sensory systems encode different stimuli features to generate optimal behavior. In mammalian olfaction, odorants of varying physicochemical properties are first represented as glomerular activity patterns in the olfactory ...
• Exploring structure-property relationships in layered perovskite iridates 

  GARG, CHARU (2021-12-29)

  Geometrically frustrated perovskites- where the symmetry of the underlying crystal structure inhibits long range magnetic ordering- is the most prominent structural class, where the search for non-trivial spin structures ...
• Caveolin1 Tyr14 phosphorylation: Regulation and role in adhesion-dependent cellular responsiveness of normal and cancer cells 

  BUWA, NATASHA (2021-03-22)

  Cell matrix-adhesion regulates cellular responses to changing biochemical and mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix (ECM). This is mediated in part by regulation of membrane trafficking through caveolae to ...
• NMR Investigation of Quantum Thermodynamics and Quantum Correlations 

  PAL, SOHAM (2021-06)

  With the advancements of experimental techniques in quantum mechanical systems, it is now possible to probe and control a wide variety of quantum systems with ever increasing sizes and complexities. One can now use these ...
• Asymptotic conservation laws for loop level soft photon theorems 

  BHATKAR, SAYALI ATUL (2021-03)

  In the thesis, we study new asymptotic conservation laws in electromagnetism that could reproduce the loop effects in the soft expansion of QED amplitudes. We also explore interesting properties of asymptotic expansions ...

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