PhD-Scholar

My master’s dissertation project at Mlab IIT B involved studying the combinatorial effect of
substrate stiffness, Extracellular matrix and Serum on cell migration using wound healing
assays. I won the Best Oral Presenter award for my work at RISE 2017 (Recent Innovations
in Science and Engineering- 2017) held National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar.
Currently I am a co guide Phd student and working on bio mimesis of invitro diabetic model
and understanding the role of substrate stiffness on diabetic micro environments. I am also

I am a PhD student under the joint supervision of Prof. Abhijit Majumder and Prof. Dulal Panda.

My research area is:

I joined the lab in June 2019 as a project staff and then became a PhD student starting from January 2020. I worked in collaboration with Pankaj (a senior PhD student) wherein we cultured Mesenchymal Stem Cells on different extracellular matrix substrates with an aim to identify which of them is the most effective in maintaining growth and stemness of the cells in a long-term culture.

Studying mesenchymal stem cell migration response due to the viscoelasticity of polyacrylamide gel with precisely maintaining its elastic component constant but varying viscous component.

Patterning and organization of the cells in vitro is essential for tissue engineering. It is known that cellular patterning is controlled by chemical and mechanical factors. It is also known that cells can sense the stiffness of its surroundings when in direct contact or through a very thin layer of soft material. However, effect of a rigid structure embedded in a thick homogeneous soft substrate on cells at distance is still unknown. To fill this gap, we developed a substrate in which the rigid structure are embedded into a soft and deformable polyacrylamide (PAA) substrate.

I have joined M lab as a Ph.D student in 2017. My research work focuses on on understanding the effect of mechanical cues on nuclear and chromatin architecture during mesenchymal stem cell differentiation. 

Studying mesenchymal stem cell migration response due to the viscoelasticity of polyacrylamide gel with precisely maintaining its elastic component constant but varying viscous component. 

I have joined M lab as a Ph.D student in 2017. I am currently working on understanding the effect of mechanical cues on nuclear and chromatin architecture during mesenchymal stem cell differentiation.

Research area : Understanding cellular behaviour in response to bio-mimicked hierarchical microstructures

I joined M-Lab as a PhD student in January 2018. My research area focuses on development of a drug testing platform which can mimic the features tumor micro-environment. For which I am using glioblastoma- a highly malignant brain cancer as tumor model. We are developing this device in collaboration with Prof. Prassana Gandhi from mechanical engineering department, IITB.