We asked the BSMS students of batch 16 who recently graduated (congratulations on that!) to sum up the months of work on their major project into one sentence.
I try to persuade cells to move while I look. They don’t.
“Elucidating the signal transduction cascade of SDF-1a activation via outside-in integrin signaling”
Ankit Pradhan, Dr. Satish Khurana, School of Biology
How to ‘bloch’ out some numbers on a sphere.
“Mutually Unbiased Balanced Functions & Generalized Random Access Codes”
Vaisakh M, Dr. Manik Banik, School of Physics
Even doper than dopamine.
“Total synthesis of aromatic phenalene diterpenoids”
Pranav Bibyan, Dr. Rajendar Goreti, School of Chemistry
In touch with atoms and molecules.
“Scanning Tunneling Microscope: A Tool for Investigating Molecular Electronics”
Miliya K. M., Dr. Joy Mitra, School of Physics
Making some gravity equations super-looking.
“A new multiplet in N=2 conformal supergravity”
Krishnanand K. Nair, String theory Group: Dr. Bindusar Sahoo, School of Physics
Smells like entanglement in here.
“Non-Classical Correlations as Indicators of Quantum Features in Inaccessible Systems”
Sanchit Srivastava, Prof. Anil Shaji, School of Physics
380 thousand years old photons bent slightly and I tried to model them.
“Study of Weak Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background”
Swarali, Dr. Soumen Basak, School of Physics
Turns out black holes are just massive, alien computers.
“How to define complexity in a quantum field theory?”
Kishore Iyer, Dr. Bindusar Sahoo, School of Physics
Wobbly plant? Breaking the boundaries of the plant cell wall.
“Inducible CRISPR/CAS9 genome editing to modulate the cell-wall associated gene in regenerating progenitor during de novo shoot organogenesis”
Bejoy Manoj, Dr. Kalika Prasad, School of Biology
Slim and curvy things make better magnets.
“Micromagnetic study of Exchange-coupled Ni80Fe20/CoPt Nano-modulated Systems”
Khalak Mahadeviya, Functional Materials & Devices Lab, School of Physics
A few lines of code that’s waaay better at looking at images than you are.
“A Deep Learning-based approach for detecting and analyzing hexagonal structures in optical microscope images”
Anoop A. Nair, Dr. Joy Mitra, School of Physics
Optical fiber tapers often break, but if you pray long enough to the lab ghost, they may manipulate laser bandwidths.
“A study of the applications of tapered optical fibers”
S. Jayakrishnan, Phonon Lab, School of Physics
I initially tried to deprive flies of their sleep by feeding them unhealthy amounts of caffeine. Spoiler alert: it was unhealthy.
“Elucidating the role of caffeine consumption on circadian rhythm, development, and metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster.”
Benjamin Tariang, Chronobiology Lab, School of Biology
Fickle photons >>> rand()
“Investigating Brillouin based True Random Number Generation”
Renuka, Phonon Lab: Dr. Ravi Pant, School of Physics
Rewatching Interstellar and Dark after too much quantum mechanics.
“Quantum foundations: on causality and tripartite entanglement”
Hari Krishnan S. V., Dr. Manik Banik, School of Physics
This article was inspired by lol my thesis. Edited and compiled by Aswathi K, Hruidya C Babu and Ananya Aravind of batch 19.
