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School of Chemical Sciences, NISER, Bhubaneswar
Welcome to
NKS Research Laboratory

Bibhuti Bhusana Palai
Research Scholar (UGC-JRF)
bibhuti.palai@niser.ac.in
Bibhu joined the lab as Ph.D. student in January, 2016. He did his MSc from Berhampur University, Bhanja Bihar, Berhampur-Odisha. He has qualified UGC-JRF-NET examination in June, 2015 in persuing Ph.D. in organic chemistry. His research interest in syntheses of unnatural ammino acids and nucleic acid (DNA/RNA) analogues by C-H activation mthods.

Sagarika Meher
Research Scholar (JRF)
sagarika.meher@niser.ac.in
Sagarika joined the lab as Ph.D. student in August, 2016. She did M.Sc. from Sambalpur-University, Sambalpur, Odisha. She has qualified GATE-2016. Her research interest in synthesis of bioactive molecules such as PNA/DNA/RNA and other related derivatives.

Manish Gupta
Research Scholar (UGC-JRF)
manish.gupta@niser.ac.in
Manish joined the lab as Ph.D. student in Aug, 2017. He did M.Sc. from Sambalpur-University, Sambalpur, Odisha. He has qualified CSIR-UGC-JRF-LS-2016 examination. His research interest in synthesis of bioactive molecules derived from Peptide.

Chinmay K. Jena
Research Scholar (CSIR-JRF)
chinmay.jena@niser.ac.in
Chinmay joined the lab as Ph.D. student in Aug, 2017. He did M.Sc. from Utkal-University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He has qualified CSIR-UGC-JRF-LS-2016 examination. His research interest in synthesis of bioactive molecules derived from peptides

Subhashree S. Panda
Research Scholar (GATE)
subhashree.panda@niser.ac.in
Subhashree joined the lab as Ph.D. student in Aug, 2018. He did M.Sc. from Berhampur-University, Berahampur, Odisha. He has qualified GATE-2016 examination. His research interest in synthesis of bioactive molecules such as Peptide and Nucleic acid (DNA/RNA).

Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate
Dr. Amarnath Bollu
Research Associate (Ph.D.)
amarnath.b@niser.ac.in
Amarnath is from Warangal, Telangana. He did his MSc from Kakatiya University, Telangana. He has qualified UGC-JRF-NET examination in June. 2012. He joined the lab in August, 2012 in persuing Ph.D. in organic chemistry and working on the Synthesis of unnatural amino acids and RNA phosphoramidites for modified mi-RNA analogues. He has completed his Ph.D. degree in 2018.

Dr. Smitha Mohanlal
DST-WOS (A) scientist
Smitha obtained her PhD from NIIST, Trivandrum. She hails from Kochi, Kerala. She joined NISER as a PDF in November 2014 and is involved in synthesis of unnatural aminoacids, their peptides and exploring conformational space. In her free time she likes listening music, gardening and cooking.

Undergraduate Student (M.Sc. Project)
Shiba Prasad Jena
Msc. Research Project
shibaprasad.jena@niser.ac.in
Shiba, 4th year MSc-NISER, joined the lab in August, 2019 for M. Sc. research Project .

Gajendra Marndi
Msc. Research Project
gajendra.marandi@niser.ac.in
Gajendra, 4th year MSc-NISER, joined the lab in August, 2020 for M. Sc. research Project .

Anil K. Haiburu
Msc. Research Project
Anil, 4th year MSc-NISER, joined the lab in August, 2020 for M. Sc. research Project .
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Asmita Rani Asmi
Msc. Research Project
Asmita, 4th year MSc-NISER, joined the lab in August, 2020 for M. Sc. research Project .
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