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6/08/2026

Congratulations to Anant Verma for successfully defending his PhD thesis

He worked on understanding the role of oxidative stress in membrane signaling of aged cells

22/06/2026

Congratulations to Abhiram Kalluri for graduating M.Tech

He worked on enhanced evaporation through nanoporous 2D materials – metal-organic frameworks and MoS2.

2/09/2025

AIChE 2025 Annual Meet

Prof. K Ganapathy Ayappa, along with Bharath Desikan, Amar Krishna Gopinath, and Nishant Mohan Bahuguna presented their research at AIChE held at Boston, Massachusetts

22/08/2025

Congratulations to Harsh Kumar for successfully defending his PhD thesis

He worked on study of YaxAB pore forming toxins

22/06/2025

Congratulations to Anshaj Ronghe for successfully defending his PhD thesis

He worked on application of graphene nanopores.

22/06/2025

Congratulations to Prince for graduating M.Tech

He worked on modelling of flow of gas mixtures in membranes.

22/06/2024

Congratulations to Thejassvi for graduating M.Tech

She worked on modelling heat storage systems in collaboration with Shell Technology India.

08/01/2024

Congratulations to Samlesh for successfully defending his PhD thesis

He worked on modelling mitochondrial dynamics using Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, and study of conformational changes in Yersinia YaxAB systems.

26/12/23

Congratulations to Prof. Ayappa for receiving the RPG Life Science Padma Vibhushan Prof. M. M. Sharma Medal and Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award at IIChE-CHEMCON 2023

11/10/2023

Congratulations to Avijeet for successfully defending his PhD thesis

He worked on developing finite temperature string method for studying secondary conformational changes in Cytolysine-A (ClyA) in presence of mammalian cell membranes.

25/08/2023

Congratulations to Rakesh Gupta for completing his comprehensive exam

He works with the permeation of molecules through skin membranes

04/07/2023

Congratulations to Anant, for presenting his PhD thesis colloquium

He worked on the effect of oxysterols on G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) signalling and phospholipid membrane properties

19/06/2023

Congratulations to Bharath, for graduating M.Tech

He worked on molecular theory of evaporation of solutions and enhanced separation of solutions using functionalised nanoporous graphene

14/06/2023

Congratulations to Anshaj, for publishing in ACS Langmuir

Title: Graphene Nanopores Enhance Water Evaporation from Salt Solutions: Exploring the Effects of Ions and Concentration

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