VIKAS KUMAR

About

I am currently working as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry, at Govt. College Khimlasa, Sagar-MP, under the Department of Higher Education, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Previously I was working as Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, under supervision of Professor T. K. Chakraborty (Honorary Professor, FNA, FNASc, SSB Awardee, Former Director of Central Drug Research Institute, India). My current interest is synthesis of nucleobase functionalized short peptide derivatives for advanced biological and materialistic applications.

Before that, I was working as Claude Leon Post Doctoral Fellow, at Stellenbosch University, in the Department of Biochemistry under the supervision of Prof. Marina Rautenbach, BIOPEP Peptide Research Group. We work on the biological production and extraction of a group of Cyclic Decapeptides known as Tyrothricin that is mixture of various tyrocidines, the first ever reported antimicrobial agents.
I completed my PhD under the supervision of Dr. Khashti Ballabh Joshi, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Dr Hari Singh Gour University: Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India. During my PhD we have synthesized a lot of short peptides and their conjugates that were further utilized for the photoinduced synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles such as gold and silver nanoparticles.

Employment

• Govt College Khimlasa, Sagar-MP Assistant Professor
  2023 - Present
• Indian Institute of Science Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow
  2021 - 2023
• Stellenbosch University Postdoctoral Fellow
  2018 - 2021

Education

• Dr Hari Singh Gour University PhD
  2013 - 2017
• DR HARI SINGH GOUR CENTRAL UNIVERSITY SAGAR MSc
  2011 - 2013

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (25)

• Metallopeptide-inspired pyridine-bis-tyrosine peptide conjugate mediated facile room temperature synthesis of ultrafine solid mercury nanoparticles for plausible applications
  Next Materials 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.nxmate.2024.100118
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• Peptide‐Assisted Synthesis of Nanoparticles and Their Applications
  Green Synthesis of Nanomaterials 2024 DOI: 10.1002/9781119900931.ch14
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• Metallopeptide nanoreservoirs for concurrent imaging and detoxification of lead (Pb) from human retinal pigment epithelial (hRPE1) cells
  Nanoscale 2024 DOI: 10.1039/d4nr02236j
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• Self‐Assembled Bioinspired Short Metallopeptide Nanostructures for Plausible Biomedical Applications
  ChemNanoMat 2024 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.202400098
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• Temperature-Induced Effects on the Structure of Gramicidin S
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2023 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c06115
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• Antimicrobial Activity of Silver Nanoparticles Loaded Biomimetic Isomeric Short Lipopeptide Nanostructures
  ChemistrySelect 2022 DOI: 10.1002/slct.202202234
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• Antimicrobial nano-assemblies of tryptocidine C, a tryptophan-rich cyclic decapeptide, from ethanolic solutions
  Biochimie 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2022.08.017
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• Short peptide amphiphile nanostructures facilitate sunlight-induced nanowelding of gold nanosheets
  Chemical Communications 2022 DOI: 10.1039/d2cc05392f
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• Oligomerisation of tryptocidine C, a Trp-rich cyclodecapeptide from the antimicrobial tyrothricin complex
  Biochimie 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2020.12.006
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• Cultivation of diatom Pinnularia saprophila for lipid production: A comparison of methods for harvesting the lipid from the cells
  Bioresource Technology 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.124129
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