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Fellows attending this Host Institution

Host: Johns Hopkins University

2020 Khorana Scholar

Achuthan is a fourth-year undergraduate student interested in understanding protein (un)structure and dynamics, and the relationship with function.

Ahana Chatterjee

Host: Johns Hopkins University

The Ha lab uses single-molecule detection methods to study complex biological systems including biophysical techniques like multicolor fluorescence, super-resolution imaging, combined force and fluorescence spectroscopy and single-molecule pull-down. During her project, Ahana worked on a project related to chromatin remodeler SWR1 and the mechanism by which it causes H2A to H2A-Z dimer exchange in nucleosomes using single molecule techniques.

Akshita Gupta

Host: Johns Hopkins University

2018 Khorana Scholar who worked with Lei Zheng at John Hopkins University

Asheesh Maheshwari

Host: Johns Hopkins University

2018 Khorana Scholar who worked with Nitish V. Thakor. “I am working on building a mixed reality training program for upper limb amputees and providing them a proprioceptive feedback of their arm location.”

Charul Agarwal

Host: Johns Hopkins University

2015 Khorana Scholar

Gaurav Chobe

Host: Johns Hopkins University

Kshitij Agarwal

Host: Johns Hopkins University

2015 Khorana Scholar

Manish Ayushman

Host: Johns Hopkins University

2018 Khorana Scholar who worked at John Hopkins University under Professor Trina Schroer.

“The focus of my project is to study cargo binding and regulation of Cytoplasmic Dynein motor and Dynactin. It involves development of TetR-shRNA constructs for inducible knockdown of targeted subunits of the Dynactin complex and analysis of its effects on the cargo binding ability of the Dynein-Dynactin-Activating Adaptor Complex, using live cell imaging. Simultaneously, it also involves studying the effects of mutations at sites of phosphorylation of the p25 subunit of the Dynactin complex on cargo binding and other phenotypes like cell cycle progression and primary cilia-genesis.”

Manuj Bandral

Host: Johns Hopkins University

2018 Khorana Scholar who worked at John Hopkins Medical Institute under Professor Rajini Rao.

Manuj studied the effect of SPCA2 overexpression in normal cells (MCF-10A, normal Breast cell line).

Prasanna Venkatesan Ravindran

Host: Johns Hopkins University

“Online Functionally Adaptive Myosite Selection using conformable HD sEMG electrodes for movement-pattern classification.”

Shobhit Gupta

Host: Johns Hopkins University

Sucheta Ghosh

Host: Johns Hopkins University

2018 Khorana Scholar who worked at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine under Professor Guang William Wong.