B.Sc. (H) Chemistry, M.Sc. Chemistry, CSIR NET-JRF, and Ph. D. in Chemistry

DSC- Biomolecules II 

CHE-DSC-02- Chemical Bonding and Elements in Biological System

SEC- Chemistry of Food, Flavors, and Colourants

VAC-The Art of Being Happy

Structural Polymorphism of Quasi-Palindromic and G-rich Sequences present at Genomic Locations and Recognition of G-stretches by Mitoxantrone

Anju Singh, Shoaib Khan#, Nishu Nain#, Shrikant Kukreti (2023). Deciphering Plausible Role of DNA nanostructures in Drug Delivery. In Fiber and Textile Engineering in Drug Delivery Systems (pp. 215-251). Woodhead Publishing. (Chapter 7) (#equal contribution) ISBN: 978-0-323-99500-9

1. Phogat, P., Bansal, A., Nain, N., Khan, S., Saso, L. & Kukreti, S. (2025). Quest for space: Tenacity of DNA, Protein, and Lipid macromolecules in intracellular crowded environment. Biomolecular Concepts, 16(1), 20250053.
2. Nain, N., Singh, A., Khan, S., & Kukreti, S. (2023). G-quadruplex formation at human DAT1 gene promoter: Effect of cytosine methylation. Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, 34, 101464. 
3. Nain, N., Singh, A., Khan, S., Kaushik, M., Kukreti, S. (2022). Structural switching/polymorphism by sequential base substitution at quasi-palindromic SNP site (G→ A) in LCR of human β-globin gene cluster. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 201, 216-225. 
4. Khan, S., Singh, A., Nain, N., Gulati, S., Kukreti, S. (2021). Sequence-specific recognition of a coding segment of human DACH1 gene via short pyrimidine/purine oligonucleotides. RSC Advances, 11(63), 40011-40021. 
5. Khan, S., Singh, A., Nain, N., & Kukreti, S. (2023). Alkali cation mediated topology displayed by an exonic G-rich sequence of TRPA1 gene. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 41(19), 9997-10008. 

1. Participated in oral presentation on topic “Structural switching/polymorphism by sequential base substitution at quasi-palindromic SNP site (G→A) in LCR of human β-globin gene cluster” in International Conference entitled “Viksit Bharat 2047: Reaching the Unreached Through Chemical and Biological Sciences (VBCB-2025)” organized by Department of Chemistry at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Delhi-NCR Campus, Modinagar, Ghaziabad, U.P. India on February 8th-20th, 2025. (Young Scientist Award)
2. Participated in oral presentation on topic “G-quadruplex formation at human DAT1 gene promoter: Effect of cytosine methylation” in International Conference on “Recent Trends in Biological and Chemical Sciences” at ICRTBCS-2023 jointly organized by Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Uttar Pradesh and Hindu College, University of Delhi, India held on November 25th, 2023. (3rd Prize in Oral Presentation)
3. Participated in “International Conference and Workshop on Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry and UN-SDGs” organized by Green Chemistry Network Centre, Hindu College, University of Delhi on November 9-10th, 2023.
4. Presented a poster presentation on topic “Structural switching/polymorphism by sequential base substitution at quasi-palindromic SNP site (G→ A) in LCR of human β-globin gene cluster” in International Conference on “Recent Advances in Nanomedical Sciences (RANMS-2022)” organized by Institute of Nano Medical Science (INMS) & Institution of Eminence (IOE), University of Delhi, held during June 22-23, 2022. (Best Poster Award)
5. Participated in “XV J-NOST 2019” Conference for Research Scholar organized by the Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi held during October 18-21, 2019.
6. Participated in “National Symposium on Recent trends, Development and Methodologies in Biophysics” organized by the Department of Biophysics, University of Delhi, South Campus, held on September 7, 2019.
7. Presented a poster on topic “Eukaryotic Telomeric Sequence under Methylation” in International Conference on “6th World Congress on Nanomedical Sciences” organized by Jamia Hamdard University & University of Delhi on January 7-10, 2019.

1. Participated in 7 Day Technical Hands-On-Workshop on “Molecular Docking | Study to predict interaction energy between molecules” organized by BDG LIFESCIENCES from November 24-30, 2021.
2. Participated in the National Workshop on “Thieme Chemistry: Science of Synthesis” organized by Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, held on September 28, 2018
3. Participated in the “American Chemical Society (ACS) on-campus Meeting” at North Campus, University of Delhi held on February 5, 2018.

• Young Scientist Award from Springer Publisher in Oral Presentation organized by Department of Chemistry at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Delhi-NCR Campus, Modinagar, Ghaziabad, U.P. India, 2025
• 3rd Prize in Oral Presentation jointly organized by Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Uttar Pradesh and Hindu College, University of Delhi, 2023
• Best Poster Award presented by Institute of Nano Medical Science (INMS) & Institution of Eminence (IOE), University of Delhi, 2022
• Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) from CSIR, Govt. of India [2020-2023] Ph.D. period
• Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) from CSIR, Govt. of India. [2018-2020] Ph.D. period
• Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), 2018
• Secured AIR-36 in CSIR NET JRF, Dec-2017
• Secured AIR-15 in CSIR NET LS, June-2017
• AIR-2 in Ph.D. Entrance Exam 2017, Delhi University
• AIR-22 in M.Sc. Entrance Exam 2015, Delhi University
• Secured AIR-438 in IIT-JAM 2014