Team
Current Members
Ph.D Students
Susmita Pradhan
Susmita completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. at Calcutta University and joined the NanoBioPhotonics team as an Institute Fellow in September 2022. She is currently working on a project to understand the effects of liquid-liquid phase separation on the structure and interaction dynamics of biomolecules.
Hobbies: Music, reading mystery novels
Shubhangi sharma
Shubhangi studied B.Sc. and M.Sc. at Dayalbagh Educational Institute in Agra. During her time there, she completed two projects at CFEES, DRDO, titled "Preparation of Amine Derivatives" and "Synthesis and Characterization of Surface Active Betaines." She joined the NanoBioPhotonics Team as a Project Associate in the SERB-SRG project in November 2022. In our team, she is using anisotropic plasmonic nanoantennas to boost the fluorescence of low quantum yield fluorophores.
Hobbies: Sports, Music, Arts
Project Students
Nikhil Agarwal
Research Topics: Hidden Markov Modelling of smFRET data to obtain the conformational dynamics of a biomolecule
Sidhant Bhattacharjee
Research Topics: Understanding the biomolecular structure and interaction dynamics inside a liquid-liquid phase separated (LLPS) condensates
Past Members
Kajal Kukreja (First Degree Thesis Students): August 2023- December 2023
Thesis Title: Understanding the mechanism of binding interactions between G-quadruplex DNA and organic ligands in a medium mimicking liquid-liquid phase separated biomolecular condensates.
Malavika Sreekumar (Summer Intern): Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Yash Goyal (Study Project): Aug 2023 - Dec 2023
Pretyut Sundarrajan (Study Project): Jan 2023 - May 2023
4. Lavya Dhawan (Laboratory Project): Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
5. Bhavya Sharma (Laboratory Project): Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
6. Dashavidh Dixit (First Degree Thesis Students): Mar 2022 - May 2022