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PhD Students

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My broad area of interest is biological physics. Specific areas include theoretical and computational studies to understand RNA and Protein folding-unfolding phenomena using a variety of tools from equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.

RAJU SARKAR

SRF

My interest lies in the regime of protein folding-unfolding and water dynamics 

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Investigation of viral protein-RNA complex formation mechanism by classical molecular dynamics simulation method and by developing coarse-grained structure-based modeling techniques.

AKHILESH JAISWAR

SRF

AMRITA CHAKROBARTY

SRF

Developing a Structural Topology-based Electrostatic Model (Stem) of RNA to investigate functional conformational changes of bacterial and viral RNAs.

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AVIJIT MAINAN

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My research interest lies in investigating the chain mechanics of viral spike protein by developing coarse-grained structure-based models.

ANUSHREE SINHA

JRF

JRF

Post-Doc Fellows & Research Scholars

My primary area of interest lies at the junction of Machine Learning and Biophysics especially focusing on building Deep Learning models to predict Viral Mutations and understand the mechanistic behaviour of viral infection.

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SATYAM SANGEET

DBT-JRF

Investigation of viral protein-RNA complex formation mechanism by classical molecular dynamics simulation method and by developing coarse-grained structure-based modeling techniques.

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Investigation of RNA-Protein complex formation strategy & to explore the free energy calculation technique based on computational approaches & methodologies.

DIBYAMANJAREE SAMANT

JRF

Master Students

My broad area of research interest lies in the interdisciplinary regime of biophysical chemistry. I'm specifically interested in the structure based modelling of viral RNA machineries by coarse graining method.

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ANGEL MARY C T

18MS

Currently working on polyelectrolyte solutions, focusing on ionic concentration dependence of their stiffness and its relevance in dictating DNA and RNA conformations

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SANCHAY AGGARWAL

18MS

Currently working on polyelectrolytes, its solution and its relevance in genetic mechanism and action like RNA splicing, extrinsic-intrinsic stiffness of RNA, DNA in an ionic environment.  

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RISHABH SINGH

17MS

Currently exploring the correlations from evolutionary history and existing information transfer pathways in enzymes to predict allosteric sites.

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MADHAV B NAIR

19MS

Lab Alumni

Current Position: Ph.D. student at Penn State University, PA, US

  • Vysakh R (16MS Batch)

Current Position: Ph.D. student at Iowa State University, IA, US

  • Mukti Biswas (15MS Batch)

  • Sangram Prusty (15MS Batch)

Current Position: Ph.D. student at Boston University, MA, US​

  • Sonali P. Nayak (University of Hyderabad, Intern-2020)

Current Position: MS at Göttingen University, Germany

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