The orphan transporter, Vesicular Aminergic – Associated Transporter (VAAT/SLC10A4) was recently shown to have a modulatory role in monoaminergic and cholinergic signalling systems. These studies used constitutive knockout ...
Acoustic communication in animals generally serves many purposes including mate attraction and aggression. Males of tree crickets use acoustic communication to attract females. It has been observed that males of the tree ...
TopBP1 is an important mediator protein involved in the cell cycle checkpoint signaling pathway that is activated when there are single strand lesions on DNA. TopBP1 has structural and functional similarity to BRCA1 (a ...
Graphene and few layer graphene (thin-layer graphite) are important materials for a variety of potential applications. Large-scale growth of these materials is an area of growing interest and is proven to be challenging. ...
Aromatic heterocyclic rings are the backbone of various natural products and biologically active compounds. And, these compounds are made up of carbon-carbon or carbon-heteroatom bonds. Transition metal catalysed reactions ...
Recently, localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) has been observed in doped semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs), with distinct differences compared to LSPR from metallic NCs. In our Sn4+-doped In2O3 NCs, commonly known ...
Formins are a family of proteins that are involved in nucleating and elongating actin filaments and are hence hypothesized to be involved in the development of nervous system. The project aims at studying the role of one ...
Apoptosis Inhibitor 5, Api5 is a nuclear protein which inhibits apoptosis upon growth factor deprival and is up regulated in various cancers. Api5 levels have been shown to be cell cycle regulated. Role of Api5 in cellular ...
A problem frequently encountered in all disciplines of science is to obtain all the solutions
for a system of non-linear equations. A similar problem exists for reaction systems
with many reactants, products, and ...
RNA world hypothesis suggests that RNA was the first informational biopolymer from which DNA and proteins evolved later. However, this hypothesis has historically ignored the role of other prebiotically relevant molecules ...
Recent advances in foldamers composed of non-natural β- and γ- amino acids suggested the greater structural diversity in hybrid peptides constituted with mixed αβ, αγ and βγ sequences compared to their homooligomers. The ...
The key objective of this yearlong project was to learn serveral concepts in commuta-
tive algebra and algebraic geometry. We started with learning concepts in commuta-
tive algebra, which included primary decomposition, ...
In this thesis, motivated by the Inverse Galois Problem, we prove the occurence of
Sn as Galois group over any global field. While Hilbert’s Irreducibility Theorem,
the main ingredient of this proof, can be proved(for ...
Copolymers are interesting kind of macromolecules and have found many applications. Styrene-Isoprene copolymers are used as additives in the fuels to improve their Viscosity Index (VI). A fuel with a good VI is the one ...
Lamins are intermediate filament proteins that maintain structural and mechanical integrity of the nucleus. Lamins are important in maintenance of the epigenetic landscape, DNA replication and mechanotransduction. Lamins ...
In this thesis we analyze interacting massive scalar fields in de-Sitter space, specifically the issue of infrared divergences which cause the conventional in-out perturbation theory inapplicable. We then review the use ...
The phenomenon of Hawking Radiation is explored in analogue gravity using Bose-Einstein Condensates. The process of spontaneous pair production that occurs at the event horizon is treated as a scattering problem, and the ...
Porous carbon-TiO2 & carbon-Al2O3 composite supports were prepared and tested for NO reduction via NH3-SCR and hydrotreating of vacuum gas oil (VGO) respectively. The effects of type of porous carbon (activated carbon, ...