DR. RAJU PODDAR'S GROUP
BIOPHOTONICS AND BIOINFORMATICS LABORATORY
Department of Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand
PhD Scholars
1) Dr. NUTAN CHAUHAN
Title of the thesis: Development of novel antileishmanial agents through 3d-qsar based approach
Year of completion: 2014
Current Position: National Postdoctoral Fellow (N-PDF) National Centre For Cell Science (NCCS), Pune India
2) Dr. M. REDDI KUMAR
Title of the thesis: Development of Swept Source optical coherence tomography setup for imaging of Biological objects
Year of completion: 2016
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Optometry, Indiana University, USA
3) Dr. JYOTI PATHAK
Title of the thesis: High-throughput SNP genotyping, annotation, and database development in wheat (triticum aestivum l.)
Year of completion: 2016
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, ICAR, Bangalore, India
4) Dr. PRAVIN KUMAR
Title of the thesis: In-silico approach towards improvements of vanillin biosynthesis
Year of completion: 2017
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
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5) Dr. PRIYA KUMARI
Title of the thesis: Engineering in nitrilase catalysis by mutational approach
Year of completion: 2022
Current Position : Postdoctoral Fellow, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India
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6) Dr. MUKTESH MOHAN
Title of the thesis: Study of upconversion nanoparticles (UCNP) as an exogenous contrast agent for optical coherence
tomography
Year of completion: 2022
Current Position : Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany
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7) Dr. Abhishek Indoliya
Title of the thesis : Study of magnetic nanoparticles as an exogenous imaging contrast agent for magnetomotive optical coherence tomography
Year of completion: 2023
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M.tech Students
1.
ISHA BIBHUTI
Title of the project: Development of Blood Oxygen saturation of human eye
Year of completion: 2012
Current position: -----
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MEHTA KHYATI NATWARLAL
Title of the project: In-silico study of Gamma synuclein in E.coli.
Year of completion: 2012
Current position: -----
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DEBLINA DAS
Title of the project: Mutational study of ferulic acid decarboxylase.
Year of completion: 2014
Current position: -----
4.
NEERU RAI
Title of the project: Mutational study of ferulic acid decarboxylase.
Year of completion: 2015
Current position: -----
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PREETI SINHA
Title of the project: Development of segmentation program for OCT phase variance angiography
Year of completion: 2016
Current position: -----
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ATUL KUMAR
Title of the project: In-vitro imaging of animal tissue using a TiO2 nanoparticles as contrast agent and swept source optical coherence tomography (SSOCT)
Year of completion: 2016
Current position: PhD Scholar, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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ARIJIT DUTTA MONDAL
Title of the project: Development of algorithm for automatic 3-D vessel segmentation of chorio-retinal complex
Year of completion: 2017
Current position: Sr. Engineer, Zeiss, India
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INDRANIL MONDAL
Title of the project: In-vitro tissue imaging with swept-source optical coherence tomography (ssoct) and silver nanoparticles as contrast agent
Year of completion: 2017
Current position: PhD Scholar, IIT, Delhi, India
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TITIKSHA MISHRA
Title of the project: Zinc oxide nanoparticles (Znonps) as contrast agent for imaging of animal tissue using swept source optical coherence tomography (ssoct)
Year of completion: 2018
Current position: Research Fellow, IIT BHU, India
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DHRUBA DHAR
Title of the project: Nanotheranostics with Gd2O3 magnetic nanoparticles
Year of completion: 2019
Current position: PhD Scholar, IIT, Kharagpur, India