IIT Madras Team: Prem Bisht, Edmana Prasad, Ashok Mishra, Athi Narayanan, Shantanu Pradhan, Balaji Srinivasan, B.N. Shivananju
Indian Collaborators: Aravind Ghosh (IISc, Bangalore)
Prof. Aravind Ghosh, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore)
Prof. Aravind Ghosh, research interest involved in investigating structural, electrical and magnetic properties of various nanoscale systems, in a wide variety of materials. Fundamental quantum mechanical effects on charge and spin states in nanosystems, to carbon-based electronics, critical behavior in smart materials, to new schemes of sensing with nano/micro-electromechanical sensors.
International Collaborators: Amasi Periasamy (Univ. of Virginia), Surendra Singh (Univ. of Arkansas), Anand Kumar, (Harvard Medical School), Ramdas Radhan (MPI HLR, Bad Nauheim)
Prof. Amasi Periasamy, Univ. of Virginia (USA)
Dr. Periasamy is one of the pioneers in the development of fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) for measuring single intact living cells. His experience in confocal, multiphoton, and FLIM based Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) imaging systems for protein localization in living specimens will be an asset to this proposal.
Prof. Surendra Singh, Department of physics, University of Arkansas (USA)
Ph.D. in Quantum Optics from the University of Rochester, USA. Prof. Singh is elected fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). With his expertise in optics Prof. Singh will contribute to the beam shaping and theoretical aspects of the proposal.
The laboratory of Dr. Kumar is focused on developing novel tools for optical molecular imaging within living subjects. Currently, the main focus is on advancing whole-body fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) techniques for small animal disease models.
Dr. Radhan Ramdass, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research (Bad Nauheim, Germany)
Dr. Radhan Ramadass is specialized in light microscopy with proven skills in establishing and application of advanced light microscopy techniques at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research (Bad Nauheim, Germany). His experience on FRET sensor to visualize changes in tissue stiffness will be useful for the proposal.