K Ganapathy Ayappa

Principal Investigator

ayappa@iisc.ac.in

Current Members

Rakesh Kantilal Vaiwala

Postdoctoral fellow

(In collaboration with Unilever)

Multiscale modelling of bacterial cell membranes

Rajalakshmi Chockalingam

Postdoctoral fellow

(in collaboration with Unilever)

Conformational strategies of antimicrobial peptides countering antimicrobial resistance

Amar Krishna Gopinath

PhD student

Study of antimicrobial pathways through bacterial membranes and proteins

Nishant Mohan Bahuguna

PhD Student

Study of viral self assembly of SARS-CoV 2

Bharath Desikan

PhD student

Study of fungal membranes in presence of fungicides

Aryan Kishor Lotake

PhD student

Study of gram positive bacteria interactions with small peptides

Koushik Roy

PhD student

Jeevith

MTech Student

Dinesh Kumar

MTech student

Staff

Venkataiah B.

Administrative Assistant

Recent Graduates

Pradeep Sathya

PhD Student

Studying assembly mechanism of conformational E. coli ClyA α-Pore Forming Toxin

pradeepsathy@iisc.ac.in

Subbarao Kanchi

PhD Student

Dendrimer interactions with cell membrane and pore forming toxins (PFTs)

ksubbu85@gmail.com

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Ayush Agarwal

PhD Student

Structural studies of proteins, and their dynamics on lipid membrane using experimental techniques such as AFM, FCS and FRAP.

anshu.ayush516@gmail.c...

Rajat Desikan

PhD Student

Membrane damaging proteins (pore forming toxins), thermophysical properties of simple lipid bilayers, investigating protein folding using Go models (SMOG)

rajatdesikan@gmail.com

Amit Behera

Mtech (Research) Student

Understanding the role of cholesterol in pore forming pathway of CytolysinA through atomistic Molecular Dynamics.

bamit@iisc.ac.in

Rajasekaran M

PhD Student

Adsorption and Dynamics of water in graphene oxide nanopores

rajasekaran@iisc.ac.in

Ilanila I.P.

PhD Student jointly with Prof.Jaydeep K.Basu

Investigation of dynamics to probe the interaction between proteins and lipids in artificial membranes

ilanilaip@iisc.ac.in

Pradyumn Sharma

PhD Student

Molecular dynamics investigation of small molecule interactions with bacterial cell membranes

pradyumn@iisc.ac.in

Sagar Bathla

Mtech Student

Water transport in graphene nanopores

sagarbathla@iisc.ac.in

Shivam Gupta

Mtech Student

Analysing the transport of drugs molecules through the bacterial efflux pump

shivamgupta@iisc.ac.in

Avijeet Kulsreshtha

PhD student

Simulations of rare events in biological systems

avijeetk@alum.iisc.ac.in

Anant Verma

PhD student

Understanding the role of oxidative stress in membrane signaling of aged cells

anantverma@iisc.ac.in

Samlesh Choudhary

PhD Student

Investigation of multiscale biological phenomenon using kinetic modeling and molecular dynamics simulations

samleshc@iisc.ac.in

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Thejassvi Madireddi

MTech Student

Modelling of heat storage systems

thejassvim@alum.iisc.ac.in

Prince Kumar

MTech Student

Modelling of flow of gas mixtures in membranes

princekumar1@iisc.ac.in

Anshaj Ronghe

PhD Student

Application of graphene nanopores

anshajronghe@iisc.ac.in

Harsh Kumar

PhD Student

(jointly with Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan)

Study of YaxAB pore forming toxins

Abhiram Kalluri

MTech student

Enhanced evaporation through nanoporous 2D materials – metal-organic frameworks and MoS2

kabhiram@iisc.ac.in

Rakesh Gupta

PhD Student

(ERP with Tata Research)

Multiscale modelling of skin

rakeshg@iisc.ac.in