A curious mind is the mind with 
the most innovative solutions.

BOOKS

• Dhawan A., Singh S., Kumar A. & Shanker R. (2018). Nanobiotechnology: Human Health and the Environment, Boca Raton: CRC Press
• Kumar, A. & Dhawan A. (2019). Nanoparticle-protein Corona: Biophysics to Biology. Cambridge CB40WF, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry 
• Singh, S. & Maurya, P. (2019). Nanotechnology in Modern Animal Biotechnology Recent Trends and Future Perspectives, Singapore: Springer Nature

BOOK CHAPTERS 

• Bagchi, S. (2019). Re-evaluating Maratha Politics in Maharashtra: 2014 Assembly Elections and After. In Ashutosh Kumar & Yatindar Sisodia (Eds.) How India Votes: A State-by-State look (270-287), Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan
• Ghosal, R. (2019). Application of novel molecular tools in controlling invasive freshwater fish. In J.K. Sundaray and Mohd. Ashraf Rather (Eds.) Next Generation Research in Aquaculture (247-257), Delhi: Narendra Publishing House, India
• Kumar, A. (2018). Detection of Mutation in Prokaryotic Cells. In Mutagenicity: Assays and Applications (35-48), London, United Kingdom:  Academic Press
• Mahadevia, D. (2019). Unsmart Outcomes of the Smart City initiatives: Displacement and Peripheralisation in Indian Cities, Urban Design Companion: A Sequel. Tridb Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sedris (310-324), Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
• Mahadevia, D. & Desai, R. (2019). Everyday Violence in Urban India - Is planning the Driver or Mitigator? Safe and Inclusive Cities: Ideas to Address Urban Violence, Poverty and Inequalities. Jennifer Salahub, John de Boer and Markus Gottsbacher (Eds). (177-199), Abingdon, United Kingdom, Routledge
• Patel, P. & Kumar, A. (2019). Factors Affecting a Nanoparticle’s Protein Corona Formation, Nanoparticle-protein Corona: Biophysics to Biology. Kumar, A. and Dhawan, A. (61-79), Cambridge CB40WF, United Kingdom: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
• Raijiwala, P., Pandya, A. & Shukla, R. (2019). Analytical Approach to Investigate nanoparticles-protein Corona Complex, Nanoparticles-protein Corona: BioPhysics to Biology. Kumar, A. and Dhawan, A. (61-79), Cambridge CB40WF, United Kingdom: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
• Senapati, V.A. & Kumar, A. (2018). Nanoparticles and the Aquatic Environment: Application, Impact and Fate in Nanobiotechnology: Human Health and the Environment (299-323), Boca Raton: CRC Press
• Singh, R. & Singh, S. (2019). Nanomaterials in human disease diagnosis. In Genomics and Clinical Diagnostics (249 -298), United Kingdom: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Singh, S. (2018). Factors affecting the toxicity of engineered nanomaterials: Interference and limitations of in vitro assays. In Nanotoxicity: Toxicity Evaluation, Risk Assessment, and Management (97 – 124), London: Taylor & Francis
• Wright, S. (2018). Making Sense of Bhāṣā in Sanskrit: Radhamohan Thakkur’s Mahābhāvānusāriṇī-ṭīkā and Literary Culture in Early Eighteenth-Century Bengal. In Tyler Williams, Anshu Malhotra, and John Stratton Hawley (Eds.), Texts and Traditions in Early Modern North India (77-98), Delhi: Oxford University Press

JOURNAL ARTICLES 

• Abdelrehim, N., Ramnath, A., Smith, A. & Popp, A. (2018). Ambiguous Decolonisation: a postcolonial reading of the IHRM strategy of the Burmah Oil Company. Business History. DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2018.1448384
• Bhagat, S., Vallabani, S., Shutthanandan, V., Bowden, M., Karakoti, A. & Singh, S. (2018). Gold core/Ceria shell nanostructure: A pH dependent redox active nanozyme mimicking biological multienzyme complex phenomenon. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 513, 831-842
• Bhasne, K., Sebastian S., Jain, N. & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2018). Synergistic Amyloid Switch Triggered by Early Heterotypic Oligomerization of Intrinsically Disordered α-Synuclein and Tau. J Mol Biol., 430(16), 2508-2520
• Betancourt, N., Rajpurohit, S., Durmaz, E., Fabian, D., Kapun, M., Flatt, T. & Schmidt, P.S. (2018). Allelic Polymorphism at Foxo Contributes to Local Adaptation in Drosophila Melanogaster. BioRxiv 471565 
• Dasgupta, A., Jain, R.K. & Rangarajan, R. (2018). Effective Chemical Potential in Spontaneous Baryogenesis. Phys. Rev. D 98, 083527-1—13
• Dave, H., Bhandari, N., Mod, B., Shukla, R.K. & Pandya, A. (2018). Multifunctional Silver-Cellulose Nanocomposite as A Promising Plasmonic Sensing Platform. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 18 (8), 5461-5469
• Desai, R., Mahadevia, D. & Sanghvi, S. (2019) Urban Planning, Exclusion and Negotiation in an Informal Subdivision: The Case of Bombay Hotel, Ahmedabad. International Development Planning Review. DOI: 10.3828/idpr.2018.35
• Durmaz, E., Rajpurohit, S., Betancourt, N., Fabian, D.K., Kapun, M., Schmidt, P.S. & Flatt, T. (2019). A Clinal Polymorphism in The Insulin Signaling Transcription Factor Foxo Contribute to Life-History Adaptation in Drosophila. Evolution 73: 1774-1792. DOI: 10.1111/evo.13759
• Dutta, M. (2018). Upakāra: The Theory of Spiritual Service and Women’s Inheritance in the Dāyabhāga. The Journal of Hindu Studies, 11 (3), 260–284
• Dutta, M. (2019). Dāya: The Conceptual Understanding of Inheritance and Gift in the Dāyabhāga. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 47 (1), 111–131
• Ghosal, R., Eichmiller, J.J., Witthuhn, B.A. & Sorensen, P.W. (2018). Attracting Common Carp to a Bait Site with Food Reveals Strong Positive Relationships Between Fish Density, Feeding Activity, Environmental DNA, And Sex Pheromone Release that Could Be Used In Invasive Fish Management. Ecology and evolution, 8(13), 6714-6727
• Gupta, G.S., Kansara, K., Shah, H., Rathod, R., Valecha, D., Gogisetty, S., Joshi, P. & Kumar, A. (2019). Impact of Humic Acid on the Fate and Toxicity of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in Tetrahymena Pyriformis and Zebrafish Embryos. Nanoscale Advances, 1, 219-227 
• Jhala, D., Rather, H., Kedaria, D., Shah, J., Singh, S. & Vasita, R. (2019). Biomimetic PCL-Chitosan Nanofibrous Substrate Influenced Cell Cycle and ECM Secretion Affect Cellular Uptake of Nanoclusters. Bioactive Materials, 4, 79 – 86
• Karim, M.N., Singh, M., Weerathunge, P., Bian, P., Zheng, R., Dekiwadia, C., Ahmed, T., Walia, S., Gaspera, E.D., Singh, S., Ramanathan, R. & Bansal, V. (2018). Visible-Light-Triggered Reactive-Oxygen-Species-Mediated Antibacterial Activity of Peroxidase-Mimic CuO Nanorods. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 1 (4), 1694 – 1704
• Karim, M.N., Anderson, S.R., Singh, S., Ramanathan, R. & Bansal, V. (2018). Nanostructured Silver Fabric as A Free-Standing Nanozyme for Colorimetric Detection of Glucose in Urine. Biosensors and Bioelectronics 110, 8-15
• Klein, R.D., Shu, Q., Cusumano, Z.T., Nagamatsu, K., Gualberto, N.C., Lynch, A.J.L., Wu, C., Wang, W., Jain, N., Pinkner, J.S., Amarasinghe, G.K., Hultgren, S.J., Frieden, C. & Chapman, M.R. (2018). Structure-Function Analysis of the Curli Accessory Protein Csge Defines Surfaces Essential for Coordinating Amyloid Fiber Formation. mBio DIO: 10.1128/mBio.01349-18
• Kumar, Apaar. (2019). Scheffler, Tradition and Value. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 53 (1), 1-17
• Mahadevia, D., Bhatia, N. & Sebastian, R. (2019). Gender Responsive Budgeting for Indian Cities – Case of Bhopal and Pune. Environment and Urbanisation – Asia, 10 (1), 44-62
• Mathew, L. (2018). Mandated Resistance, Embodied Shame: The Material and Affective Contours of a TESOL Method. TESOL Quarterly, 52/4, 748-771
• Mathew, L. (2019). Village Tales (Film Review). American Anthropologist, 121/1. 258-259
• Meghani, N., Dave, S. & Kumar, A. (2019).  Nanofood and its Application – A Review. BAOJ Nanotechnology, 5, 1-16 
• Patel, P., Kansara, K., Singh, R., Shukla, R.K., Singh, S., Dhawan, A. & Kumar, A. (2018). Cellular Internalisation and Antioxidant Activity of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles in Human Monocyticleukemia Cells. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 13, 39–41
• Patel, P., Meghani, N., Kansara, K. & Kumar, A. (2019). Nanotherapeutics for the Treatment of Cancer and Arthritis. Current Drug Metabolism. 20(6), 430-445
• Patel, V., Singh, M., Mayes, E.L.H., Martinez, A., Shutthanandan, V., Bansal, V., Singh, S. & Karakoti, A. (2018).  Ligand-Mediated Reversal of the Oxidation State Dependent ROS Scavenging and Enzyme Mimicking Activity of Ceria Nanoparticles. Chemical Communications, 54 (99), 13973-13976
• Purohit, R. & Singh, S. (2018). Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters for Efficient Cancer Cell Targeting. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 13, 15–17
• Ramnath, A. (2018). The Emergence of Engineering as a Profession in Modern India. Indian Journal of History of Science, 53, 4: T205-T210
• Rajpurohit, S. & Schmidt, P.S. (2019). Latitudinal Pigmentation Variation Contradicts Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure: A Case Study in Tropical Indian. Drosophila melanogaster. Frontiers in Physiology, 10, 84-88, DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00084
• Rajpurohit, S., Gefen, S., Bergland, A.O., Petrov, D., Gibbs, A.G. & Schmidt, PS. (2018). Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Desiccation Tolerance. Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Ecology 27, 3525-3540
• Rather, H.A., Singh, R., Singh, S., Thakore, R., Jhala, D. & Vasita, R. (2018). Antioxidative Study of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticle Functionalised PCL-Gelatin Electrospun Fibers for Wound Healing Application. Bioactive Materials, 3 (2), 201-211
• Sachaniya, J., Savaliya, R., Goyal, R. & Singh, S. (2018). Liposomal Formulation of Vitamin A for The Potential Treatment of Osteoporosis. International Journal of Nanomedicine 13, 51–53
• Shah, A. & Gupta, S.S. (2019). Anti-leishmanial Nanotherapeutics: A Current Perspective. Current Drug and Metabolism, 20 (6), 473-482
• Shah, D., Savaliya, R., Patel, P., Kansara, K., Pandya, A., Dhawan, A. & Singh, S. (2018). Curcumin Ag Nanoconjugates for Improved Therapeutic Effects in Cancer. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 13, 75–77
• Shah, K.D., Bhagat, S., Varade, D. & Singh, S. (2018).  Novel Synthesis of Polyoxyethylene Cholesteryl Ether Coated Fe-Pt Nanoalloys: A Multifunctional and Cytocompatible Bimetallic Alloy Exhibiting Intrinsic Chemical Catalysis and Biological Enzyme-Like Activities. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 553, 50–57
• Shah, J. & Singh, S. (2018). Unveiling the Role of ATP in Amplification of Artificial Peroxidase Activity of Gold Nanoparticles: A Surface Charge Effect. 3Biotech, 8 (1), 67
• Shukla, R.K. & Pandya, A. (2018). New Perspective of Nanotechnology: Role in Preventive Forensic. Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 8 (57), 1-11
• Singh, P., Singh, S. & Pandi, G.S. (2018). Effective Heart Disease Prediction System Using Data Mining Techniques. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 13, 121–124
• Singh, R. & Singh, S. (2018). Redox-Dependent Catalase Mimetic Cerium Oxide-Based Nanozyme Protect Human Hepatic Cells from 3-AT Induced Acatalasemia. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 175, 625-635
• Singh, S. (2018).  Liposome Encapsulation of Doxorubicin and Celecoxib in Combination Inhibits Progression of Human Skin Cancer Cells. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 13, 11–13
• Singh, S., Asal, R. & Bhagat, S. (2018). Multifunctional Antioxidant Nanoliposomes-Mediated Delivery of PTEN Plasmids Restore the Expression of Tumor Suppressor Protein And Induce Apoptosis In Prostate Cancer Cells. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A, 106 (12), 3152-3164
• Singh, S. (2018). Catalytically Active Nanomaterials: Artificial Enzymes of Next Generation. Nanoscience Technology, 4 (2), 1-6
• Singh, S. (2019). Nanomaterials Exhibiting Enzyme-Like Properties (Nanozymes): Current Advances and Future Perspectives. Frontiers in Chemistry, 7, 46
• Tanavade, V., Nguyen, M., Sem, N., Joseph, T., Vaz, C., Way, L., Hupp, T., Verma, C. & Madhusudhan, M. (2019) Discovering Putative Protein Targets of Small Molecules: A Study of the p53 Activator Nutlin. Journal of Chemical Information and  Modeling, 59 (4), 1529-1546
• Vallabani, N.V.S. & Singh, S. (2018). Recent Advances and Future Prospects of Iron Oxide nanoparticles in Biomedicine and Diagnostics. 3Biotech, 8 (6), 279
• Vallabani, N.V.S., Shukla, R., Gupta, S. & Kumar, A. (2019) ZnO Nanoparticles Associated Mitochondrial Stress Induced Apoptosis Activation and G2/M Arrest in HCaT Cells: A Mechanistic Approach. Mutagenesis.  34 (3), 265-277

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• Goswami, A., Patel, D., Raval, H., Rathod, R. & Ghosal, R. (2019). Understanding Group and Individual Decision Making in a Freshwater Fish, Poecilia sphenops. 42nd Annual Conference of Ethological Society of India, December 4-6. (pp-08)
• Patel, P., Meghani N. & Kumar, A. (2019). Anticancer Activity of Vitamin D Encapsulated Cinnamon Oil Nanoemulsion in Human Alveolar Carcinoma cells. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Material Science and Applied Biology (AMSAB), Mumbai, January 8-10. 69-69
• Shukla, R. (2018). Commet Assay: a Versatile Tool for DNA Forensics. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of Silk Road Forensic Consortium, Yantai, China, September 17-18. 10-10
• Shukla, R. (2019). DNA Damaging Potential of Blood Enhancement Chemicals: Challenges in Blood Presumptive Test. Proceedings of the 3rd International Research and Practice Conference on “The Datable Issues of the Theory and Practice of Judicial Expertise,” Moscow, Russia, March 28-29. 17-18

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Bagchi, S. “What it takes to Enter Elections: Consequences of Candidate nomination processes in India,”  Indian Democracy at Crossroads, UGC-CAS Program, Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad, January 2019
• Bagchi, S. “Is Democracy in a Terminal Crisis?” Seminar on What is the Question? Organised by Raza Foundation and Foundation for Creative Social Research, India International Centre, New Delhi, March 2019
• Chacko, MA. “From ‘Broiler Chicken’ To ‘Ready Made Leaders’: Re-Inscribing Privilege Through the Student Police Cadet Project in Kerala,” Annual Meeting of the Comparative Education Society of India, Vadodara, December 2018
• Deo, A. “Technological Conversations with the Past: Sound Culture Studies and Modernity in Asia Conference,” Association for Asian Studies in Asia Conference, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, July 2018
• Deo, A. “Technological Conversations with the Past,” Sound Culture Studies and Modernity in Asia Conference, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan, September 2018
• Dutta, M. “The Theory, Structure, and Degrees of Svatva in the Dāyabhāga,” 229th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Chicago, USA, March 2019
• Ghosal, R., Makecha, R., Nakai, Y. & Phalke, S. “Assessing the Effects of A Cognition Based Education Programme in Attitudes of Villagers Towards Asian Elephants (Elephas Maximus) In Conflict Prone Areas,” Living with Animals Conference. Eastern Kentucky University, USA, March 2019
• Jain, N. “Inhibition of Curli Assembly and Biofilm formation in E. coli by Human Chaperone-like proteins,” 8th ASM Conference on Biofilms, Washington D.C., USA, October 2018
• Jain, N. “Navigating the Fate of Amyloids: From Disease to Function,” Ten years of SM Lab: One Day symposium, IISER Mohali, December 2018
• Kansara, K., Karakoti, A. & Kumar A. “Humic Acid Alters the Physiological and Biological Properties of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in Aquatic Ecosystem,” International Conference on Advances in Material Science and Applied Biology (AMSAB), Mumbai, January 2019
• Kumar, A. “Formulation of Fenugreek Nanoemulsion for Food Fortification,” International Conference on Recent Advance in Food Processing Technology, Thanjavur, August 2018
• Kumar, A. “Teaching Self-Respect: The Very Idea,” International conference on The Ethics of Teaching in Pluralistic and Unequal Societies, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, November 2018
• Kumar, A. “Anticancer Activity of Vitamin D Encapsulated Cinnamon Oil Nanoemulsion in Human Alveolar Carcinoma Cells,” International Conference on Advances in Material Science and Applied Biology (AMSAB), Mumbai, January 2019
• Mahadevia, D. “Including Street Vendors in the Master Plan,” - WIEGO and IGSSS Conference on ‘Towards a People’s Master Plan: Interim Workshop in the Campaign to Revision the Master Plan of Delhi 2021-41,’ New Delhi, March 2019
• Mahadevia, D. “Inclusive Urban Housing as Climate Resilience Strategy,” National Workshop on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India, New Delhi, February 2019
• Mathew, L. “Examining the Public-Private Binary: An Analysis of Education Research,” Comparative Education Society of India, Vadodara, December 2018
• Mathew, L. “Constructing the Public private Binary: A Geneological Analysis of Education Research,” Comparative Education Society of India, Vadodara, December 2018
• Mathew, L. “The Social Life of Rote,” Annual Meeting of the Indian Sociological Society, Mysuru, December 2018
• Meghani, N. & Kumar, A., “Formulations of Fenugreek Nanoemulsion for Food Fortification,” International Conference on Recent Advances in Food Processing Technology. Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology, iCRAFPT-IIFPT, Thanjavur, August 2018
• Rajpurohit, S. “Molecules Matter: Insect Cuticular Hydrocarbons,” ISEB1: Celebrating Ecology and Evolution in India. First Conference of the Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists, JNCASR, Bengaluru, October 2019
• Ramnath, A. “Ambiguous Decolonisation: a Postcolonial Reading of the IHRM Strategy of the Burmah Oil Company,” XVIIIth World Economic History Congress at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, July – August 2018
• Ramnath, A. “Technocratic Visions of Craft and Mechanisation: Sir M. Visvesvaraya’s Plans for Twentieth-Century Mysore and India,” Workshop on ‘Craft and innovation in modern societies,’ co-sponsored by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), the Chinese Institute for the History of Natural Sciences (IHNS), and the China National Silk Museum (CNSM), Hangzhou, China, June 2018
• Shukla, R.K. “Comet Assay: A Versatile Tool for DNA Forensics,” 3rd International Conference of Silk Road Forensic Consortium, Yantai, China, September 2018
• Shukla, R.K. “Application of Nanotechnology in Forensic Sciences: Innovation and Challenges,” National Conference FORENSICON 2019 “Challenges & Innovations in Criminal Justice System,” APJ Abdul Kalam Institute of Forensic Science and Criminology, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, February 2019
• Shukla, R.K. “DNA Damaging Potential Of Blood Enhancement Chemicals: Challenges in Blood Presumptive Test,” 3rd International Research and Practice Conference “Matters of Theory and Practice of Forensic Exzamene,” The Russian State University of Justice and the National Public Center of Expertise, Moscow, Russia, March 2019
• Singh, S. “Gold-core/Cerium-oxide Shell Nanostructure: A Redox Active Nanozyme Mimicking Triple Enzyme Activities,” BIOMET, VIT, Vellore, July 2018
• Singh, S. “Nanozymes For Sensing And Therapeutic Applications”, National Conference on Advances in Spectroscopy: Molecules To Materials,” (NCASMM-2018), IITRAM, Ahmedabad, October 2018
• Singh, S. “Investigating the Role of Catalase Mimetic Cerium Oxide-Based Nanozyme To Impart Protection to Hepatic Cells From Acatalasia,” Society for Redox Biology and Medicine (SfRBM), Chicago, USA, November 2018
• Vaishya, A. “Spatial and Altitudinal Contrast in Aerosol Radiative Properties across the Indo-Gangetic Plain,” USRI Asia Pacific Radio Science Conference, New Delhi, March 2019
• Vaishya, A. “Vertical structure of optical and radiative effects of aerosols across the IGP: East - West contrast and seasonality,” 20th National Space Science Symposium 2019 (NSSS-2019), Pune, January 2019