Amey Agharkar

About Me

I am Amey Nitin Agharkar, and I am a PhD student at Indian Institute of Science. (IISc). I joined for PhD at IISc, in January 2019 under the Prime Minister's Research Fellow Scheme (PMRF). Before joining PhD, I have completed my Bachelors from Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT- NIT Surat). Throughout my undergraduate education and even at IISc, I have held various student affairs, training positions and have participated in many events. 

At IISc, I am enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research (ICER) Department. I work jointly for the  Multiphase transport processes Lab (Mechanical Department) and the Molecular Pathogenesis Lab ( Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology), under the guidance of and Prof. Saptarshi Basu (Mechanical Department and ICER) and Prof.  Dipshikha Chakravortty ( Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology).

Prof. Saptarshi Basu   - https://www.saptarshibasulab.com/

 https://mecheng.iisc.ac.in/people/saptarshi-basu/

Prof.  Dipshikha Chakravortty   -   https://mcbl.iisc.ac.in/dclab/

Achievements

The poster was selected as a highlighted poster in PMRF Annual Symposium 2023 to be presented to the MHRD Minister and IIT Madras Director

Was invited to present at PMRF National Symposium-2021 in January 2022.

Journal Paper

Sreeparna Majee, Atish Roy Chowdhury, Roven Pinto, Ankur Chattopadhyay, Amey Nitin Agharkar, Dipshikha Chakravortty, Saptarshi Basu, “Spatiotemporal evaporating droplet dynamics on fomites enhances long term bacterial pathogenesis”. Commun Biol 4, 1173 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02711-z

“Evaporation of bacteria-laden surrogate respiratory fluid droplets: On a hydrophilic substrate versus contact-free environment confers differential bacterial infectivity” (Revised manuscript communicated to Soft Matter journal).

Patent

“A Method and system for diagnosing infected blood using pre-trained machine learning model”

Saptarshi Basu, Dipshikha Chakravortty, Omkar Hegde, Ritika Chatterjee, Durbar Roy, Amey Agharkar, Vivek Jaiswal. (202141014327)