Graduating Batch 2016
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Biological Sciences
Amol Arunrao Pohane
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Vikas Jain
Thesis Title: Dissection of phage endolysin: Molecular insight into the function and
regulation of Mycobacterium phage peptidoglycan hydrolase
Amulya Priya
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Sunando Datta
Thesis Title: Interplay of Rab7 GTPase and SNX proteins in Retromer mediated
endosomal sorting
Merlyn Emmanuel
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Sunando Datta
Thesis Title: Role of small GTPase Rab21 in extracellular matrix invasion by Entamoeba
histolytica
Vikash Singh
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Raghuvir Singh Tomar
Thesis Title: Identification of Sen1 as Regulator of Stress response in Saccharomyces
Cerevisiae
Kamlesh Madhusudan Makwana
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. R Mahalakshmi
Thesis Title: Geometry and Impact of Cross-Strand Aromatic Interactions in Designed
Beta-Hairpin Peptides
Mintu Chandra
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Sunando Datta
Thesis Title: Biochemical and X-ray crystallographic studies on EhRabX3, a novel
CTPase from Entamoeba histolytica with tandem G-domians
Soumya Kamilla
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Vikas Jain
Thesis Title: Understanding the molecular basis of holin-mediated bacterial cell death:
Dissection of the phage - encoded membrane pore forming protein
Harshad Mohan Ingle
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Himanshu Kumar
Thesis Title: Host miRNA-mediated regulation of antiviral innate immunity through
synergistic regulation of RIG-I and influenza virus replication
Graduating Batch 2016
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Biological Sciences
Sushil Kumar
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Himanshu Kumar
Thesis Title: Essential Role of Anti-Viral Innate Immune Pathways Against Cancer
Chemistry
Kuldeep Singh Rathore
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Sreenivas Katukojvala
Thesis Title: Design and Synthesis of Enaldiazo
Benzannulations via Enalcarbenoids
Subhrajit Rout
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Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K Singh
Thesis Title: Catalytic Asymmetric Mukaiyama-Michael and Direct Vinylogous Michael
Addition Reactions
Amit Kumar
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Sangit Kumar
Thesis Title: Application of SNAr in the Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Diaryl Chalcogenides
and Novel Nitro-biaryl-ols: Transformation of Nitro-biaryl-ols into Indoles,
Carbazoles and Dibenzofurans
Kakde Badrinath Namdevrao
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Alakesh Bisai
Thesis Title: Unified Approach to the Total Syntheses of abeo-Abietane Diterpenoids,
Abietane Diterpenoids, and Merosesquiterpenoids via Lewis Acid-Catalyzed
C-C Bond-Forming Reactions
Masood Ayoub Kaloo
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Jeyaraman Sankar
Dr. Ramya Sunder Raman
Thesis Title: Molecular Recognition of Environmental Analytes by Modulating the
Electron Deficiency of Receptors
Subhadip De
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Alakesh Bisai
Thesis Title: Total Syntheses of Benzo[c]phenanthridine and Pyrroloindoline Alkaloids via
Transition Metal-Free C-C Bond-Forming Reactions
Graduating Batch 2016
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Chemistry
Lakshmanakumar Kinthada
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Alakesh Bisai
Thesis Title: Synthesis of 2-Oxindoles Sharing All-Carbon Quaternary Centers: Synthetic
Approaches to Benzofuro Indoline and Pyrroloindoline Alkaloids
Subhadip Ghosh
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Saptarshi Mukherjee
Thesis Title: Luminescent Metal Nanoclusters and Nanoparticle: Synthesis, Spectroscopic
Investigations and Applications
Subhajit Bhunia
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Alakesh Bisai
Thesis Title: Efficient Strategies for Total Syntheses of Ergot Alkaloids
Rajender Nallagonda
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Prasanta Ghorai
Thesis Title: Synthesis of Cinnamyl Derivatives from Cinnamyl Alcohols and Their
Application in Heterocycle Synthesis: A Facile Synthesis of 2-Benzyl Indoles
and 2-Benzyl Furans
Soumyabrata Goswami
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Sanjit Konar
Thesis Title: Multifunctional Behaviour in 3d and 4f Metal based Magnetically Imperative
Coordination Complexes
Suresh Sanda
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Sanjit Konar
Thesis Title: Metal - Organic Frameworks for Sorption, Proton Conduction and Sensing
Applications
Abhimanyu Yadav
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Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Sangit Kumar
Thesis Title: KO Bu Mediated Synthesis of Substituted Dihydropyridinones, Pyridinones,
and Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Mercury Selenolates
Graduating Batch 2016
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Physics
Parul Pandey
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Dhanvir Singh Rana
Thesis Title: Novel Hetero-Interface Phases and Low Energy Dynamics in Correlated
Systems
Manabendra Sharma
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Sukanta Panda
Thesis Title: Anisotropic Cosmology
Pritam Khan
Thesis Title: Tailoring between network
a-GexAs35-xSe65 thin films
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. K V Adarsh
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A total of 25 Ph.D. degrees will be awarded of which 9 graduands are from Biological
Sciences, 13 from Chemistry, and 3 from Physics.
Graduating Batch 2016
Dual Degree of
Bachelor of Science and Master of Science (BS-MS)
Biological Sciences
Roopa Varghese
Sandeep Satapathy
Amrutha V
Archana P T
Athira N
Chetanbala Hijam
Devi Nandana S
Jeena T J
Midhun K Madhu
Minu M Nair
Mubthasima P P
Nikhil Chaudhary
Nived K B
Prerna Tripathi
Panchakshari Nimisha Abhay
Pearl Cherry
Prateek Raj
Shah Lekha Vinod
Sushilkumar Suresh Dongre
Kulsange Shabda Eknath
Sujitha S
Vinay Sagar
Chemistry
Amith G Anil
Anto James
Anwesha Jana
Amit Kumar Mishra
Abhishek Sirohiwal
Abhinav Bura
Anagha H
Anjaly N Vijayan
Ankita Katiyar
Arathi A S
Arun Raj K M
Deshmukh Arundhati Prakash
Indulekha K P
Indulekha M
Jesna Louis
Jainu Ajit
Jinu Joji
Mishel Joy
Naladi Varun Rao
Nikhil S
Prakash Nayak
Raushan Kumar
Rekha P T
Vaishnavi N Nair
Vijay Singh Parmar
Nishna N
Hridya T K
Graduating Batch 2016
Dual Degree of
Bachelor of Science and Master of Science (BS-MS)
Mathematics
Sourabh Kumar Goyal
Sanjana Agarwal
Vishnu P Iyer
Mitesh Chandrakant Modasiya
Physics
Anarta Roy
Ganesh Ji Omar
Geo Jose
Kapil Kumar Jain
Kunal Sharma
Meera Nandakumar
Namitha Ann James
Piyush Agarwal
Ritwika Chakraborty
Sachin Shain P
Shany Mary Oommen
Shibu Sasi
Shikha Bangar
Varun Gupta
Vipin V
A total of 68 BS-MS dual degrees will be awarded of which 22 graduands are from
Biological Sciences, 27 from Chemistry, 4 from Mathematics, and 15 from Physics.
2016 Gold Medal Recipients
President’s Gold Medal
Awarded for the Best Academic Performance
amongst all disciplines of the BS-MS (Dual Degree)
Sachin Shain P, Department of Physics
Sachin joined IISER Bhopal as an INSPIRE Fellow in 2011. He secured the highest possible
Semester Performance Index (SPI) of 10.0 in three semesters. His Cumulative Performance
Index (CPI) is 9.48 on a 10.0 point scale which he obtained from the course work (excluding
the project work), the highest in the graduating batch. During his stay at IISER Bhopal he
has shown interest in carrom and table tennis. He won the mixed doubles carrom
tournament in 2013. He is a recipient of the Indian Academy of Science Summer Research
Fellowship. He will be pursuing his doctoral studies in Theoretical Physics at University of
Massachusetts, USA.
Director’s Gold Medal
Awarded for Outstanding All-Round Achievement and Leadership
amongst all disciplines of the BS-MS (Dual Degree)
Amrutha V, Department of Biological Sciences
Amrutha joined IISER Bhopal as an INSPIRE Fellow in 2011. She is a recipient of CSIR
Program for Youth Leadership in Science (CPYLS) Fellowship for doing summer internship
in CSIR Institutes in India. She is a Khorana scholar and has done her summer internship at
University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2015. She served as Vice- President to the Students
Activity Council (SAC) during 2013-14, after which she moved to SAC advisory board. She
was a member of the organizing teams of IISER Bhopal’s cultural fest “Enthuzia’14” and
“Space UP India- A satellite making workshop” jointly conducted by IISER Bhopal and
MANIT. She was the leader of IISER Bhopal girls’ basketball team and has represented
IISER Bhopal in various cultural and educational activities across India. She initiated to
conduct the first ever blood donation camp at IISER Bhopal in 2014. She also won the
second prize in poster presentation competition conducted by IISER Bhopal Annual Biology
Meet (ABM) 2016. She has been offered to serve as a teaching associate in Azim Premji
Foundation, an NGO established for improving education in rural areas. She will be
graduating with a Cumulative Performance Index of 9.08 on a scale of 10.0.
2016 Proficiency Medal Recipients
Awarded for the Best Academic Performance in each discipline of BS-MS (Dual Degree)
Proficiency Medal in Biological Sciences
Shah Lekha Vinod
Lekha joined IISER Bhopal in 2011 as an INSPIRE Fellow and is graduating with an overall CPI
of 9.17 out of 10.0. She has procured highest possible SPI of 10 in five semesters during her BSMS dual degree course. Her current project work is related to cancer metastasis and in the long
term, she is interested in understanding cancer from a systems point of view. Additionally, she
has secured 60th rank in CSIR-NET examination and has received an offer from the Ph.D.
programme of DBS, TIFR Mumbai.
Proficiency Medal in Chemistry
Vaishnavi N Nair
Vaishnavi joined IISER Bhopal as an INSPIRE Fellow in 2011. She has secured a SPI of 10 on a
10 point scale in four semesters. She has been a recipient of the DAAD – WISE scholarship in
2014. She has qualified the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) held in 2016 securing
an All India Rank of 255 in Chemistry. Vaishnavi has chosen the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, USA for persuing her doctoral studies.
Proficiency Medal in Mathematics
Sanjana Agarwal
Sanjana joined IISER Bhopal aiming to study Physics but during the first year of her stay here got
fascinated with Mathematics and decided to major in that field. She secured an absolute SPI of 10
on a 10 point scale in three semesters during her majors. She is graduating with an overall CPI of
9.13 on a 10.0 point scale. She is planning to attend Indiana University for her Ph.D. in
Mathematics.
Proficiency Medal in Physics
Sachin Shain P
Sachin joined IISER Bhopal as an INSPIRE Fellow in 2011. He secured the highest possible Semester
Performance Index (SPI) of 10 in three semesters. His overall Cumulative Performance Index (CPI) is
9.41 on a 10.0 point scale. He wants to pursue his career in the field on Theoretical High Energy
Physics. He also likes to work in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics. He will be joining the
University of Massachusetts, USA for his doctoral studies in Physics.