Dr. Nishu

Assistant Professor

Email Address : nishu@maitreyi.du.ac.in

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Organic Chemistry

 

 

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. 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. (Impact Factor- 2.7)
  2. 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. (Impact Factor- 8.2)
  3. 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. (Impact Factor- 3.9)
  4. 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. (Impact Factor- 4.4)
  1. 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)
  2. 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.
  3. 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)
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Presented a poster on topic “Eukaryotic Telomeric Sequence under Methylationin 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.
  1. Attended the International webinar on “Personalized Medicine and Pharmacogenomics: A Novel Cost Effective Approach in Therapeutics” organized by ISPOR Student Educational Society, Department of Pharmacy Practice, NIPER Mohali, India held on January 20, 2022.
  2. Attended the International webinar on “Post-COVID challenges and opportunities for the Chemist” jointly organized by Indian Science Congress Association (Delhi Chapter) and Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi held on December 28, 2021.
  3. Attended the webinar on Popular Science Writing “AWSAR (Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research)” organized by DST, GOI & Vigyan Prasar, held on October 14, 2021
  4. Attended the webinar on “Communicating Science to the Citizen during COVID19 pandemic: Be prepared not panic” organized by National Council for Science & Technology Communication, DST, GOI and Gujarat Council on Science and Technology, DST, Government of Gujarat on May 11, 2020.
  5. Attended the webinar on “Learning to live with virus” organized by National Council for Science & Technology Communication, DST, GOI and Gujarat Council on Science and Technology, DST, Government of Gujarat on May 12, 2020.
  6. Attended the webinar on “Genome sequencing in search of vaccine for coronavirus” organized by National Council for Science & Technology Communication, DST, GOI and Gujarat Council on Science and Technology, DST, Government of Gujarat on May 13, 2020.
  7. Attended the webinar on “S & T Intervention in fighting COVID 19 pandemic” organized by National Council for Science & Technology Communication, DST, GOI and Gujarat Council on Science and Technology, DST, Government of Gujarat on May 15, 2020.
  8. Attended the National webinar on रोग में योगorganized by Yoga Club, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Science, University of Delhi held on May 16, 2020.