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Alfred Festus Davidson

I worked on designing an “Evaluation Board for a non-magnetic CMOS based Circulator”. Non-reciprocal devices such as circulators have immense application in communication, radar, imaging and sensing. Such devices are mostly made from magneto-optical materials which are bulky, expensive and they cannot be easily integrated on a CMOS based integrated circuit. Recently, non-magnetic CMOS based

Akshina Jindal

Jayati Khanna

The Klein Lab discovered that amyloid-beta oligomers (AβOs) causes neuronal death and ultimately dementia in Alzheimer’s disease. My research was on understanding the cellular and subcellular localization of AβOs in isolated CNS neurons. This was done by isolating neurons from chick embryo retina and performing immunocytochemistry to check the distribution and localization of AβOs .

Shiwani Kumari

Babli Adhikary

Babli was trying to understand the role of actin in tissue mechanics during Drosophila embryogenesis during her internship in Prof. Adam Martin’s lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Multicellular organisms originating from a single cell, has to undergo a myriad of mechanical transformation to acquire its final form and function. Epithelial cells in embryo have

Dhanya Bharath

I am a senior undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a 2019 Khorana scholar. My work at the Nowicki lab at Duke University involved exploring the effects of categorical colour perception on mate choice in zebra finches. Realistic animations of videos of singing males were used in a two-choice experimental set-up to

Cheshta Bhatia

I worked with Prof. Aravinthan Samuel at Harvard University. I performed analyses of courtship and mating in C. elegans to better understand the neural basis of decision making in a small circuit with a complete connectome. My discoveries by performing experiments between C. elegans males and hermaphrodites of different genetic backgrounds highlighted new aspects of

Rashi Wadhwa

Host: Professor Stephane Coutu, Pennsylvania State University I was involved in the project HELIX (High Energy Light Isotope eXperiment). It is a balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the chemical and isotopic abundances of light-cosmic ray nuclei from ~200 MeV/nucleon to ~10 MeV/nucleon. It is expected to fly in Antarctica in December, 2020. I tested the

Indranil Ghosh

I did my summer research internship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the guidance of Prof. Chad Rienstra. My project was on the quest of searching lattice structure and dynamics of celebrated antifungal drug Amphotericin-B (AmB) and its interaction with Cholesterol and Ergosterol. The motivation of this project was to understand the working

Sourav Dutta

Sourav researched on “Polyhydroxyalkanoates production from methanotrophic and non-methanotrophic organisms”. He collected information on how microorganisms accumulate biopolymer inside their cell. The biopolymers can be extracted and purified from the microorganisms. All these factors will be helpful to facilitate the industrial scale production of polyhydroxyalkanoates.