0000-0001-7627-8904 About
Current Research Interests:
• Experiments on reconstituted lipid membranes
• Vesicles-nanoparticle interaction
• Structure and phase behavior of lipid-cholesterol membranes
• Interaction of antimicrobial peptide with phospholipid membranes
• Determination of lipid type or phase state using fluorescence spectroscopy techniques.
• Interaction of alkali metal ions with model membranes.
• Physics of vesicles
• Electrostatics of charged lipid membranes.
• Lipid protein interaction
Other Research Interest
• Properties of synthetic and bio polymers: Effect of ion beam and gamma irradiation
• Microstructure and property relationship of composite polymer system
• Pattern formation of liquid crystal droplets
• Rheology of soft matter system
Experimental skills:
• Scattering techniques: Small angle x-ray diffraction, Dynamic light scattering, zeta potential
• Microscopy: Confocal fluorescence microscopy and phase contrast and DIC microscopy, Atomic force microscopy, Field emission electron microscopy
• Fluorescence spectroscopic techniques
• Calorimetry: Differential scanning calorimetry, Isothermal titration calorimetry
Employment
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Jadavpur University
Education
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Raman Research Institute Ph.D2000 - 2005
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (15)
- Leishmania protein KMP-11 modulates cholesterol transport and membrane fluidity to facilitate host cell invasion Save
- Cholesterol-driven modulation of membrane-membrane interactions by an antimicrobial peptide, NK-2, in phospholipid vesicles Save
- Interaction of antimicrobial peptides with model membranes: a perspective towards new antibiotics Save
- Cholesterol Modulates the Interaction of Sodium Salt with Negatively Charged Phospholipid Membrane Save
- Effect of cholesterol on the ion-membrane interaction: Zeta potential and dynamic light scattering study Save
- Nanomechanical properties of cholesterol-rich domains in mica-supported unsaturated lipid bilayer: an atomic force microscopy study Save
- The metal cofactor zinc and interacting membranes modulate SOD1 conformation-aggregation landscape in an in vitro ALS model Save
- Plasticizer ethylene carbonate facilitates new ion coordination site in blend polymer electrolyte: Dielectric relaxation through two-parameter Mittag-Leffler function Save
- Kinetoplastid Membrane Protein-11 Induces Pores in Anionic Phospholipid Membranes: Effect of Cholesterol Save
- Conformational Switch Driven Membrane Pore Formation by Mycobacterium Secretory Protein MPT63 Induces Macrophage Cell Death Save