Education details:

2011: PhD Biotechnology, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Pune (University of Pune) on ‘Surface Functionalization of Metal Nanoparticles & their Biological Applications’
Aug, 2004-Feb 2006: [PhD], National Center for Cell Sciences (NCCS), Pune on ‘Signaling parallelism between CD40 and p75NGFR in PC12 cells and immune cells’
2004: Master of Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Pondicherry (Pondicherry Central University)
2002: Bachelor of Science (Honours) Chemistry, Narmada College, Bharuch (South Gujarat University, Surat)

Academic Scholarships:

Awarded ‘CSIR Nehru Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowship’ (2010) in Biological Sciences from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, in the first attempt
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, exam for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF)-National Eligibility Test (NET) in the first attempt (Dec, 2004)
Call for Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (SPM) Fellowship test, 2005 [Subject-Life Sciences; Only top 30 students in the country are called]
Combined Biotechnology examination, 2002, conducted by JNU, and obtained seat at DBT, Pondicherry University, India
Obtained Ward Scholarship from ONGC (Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.)

Publications:

1. Kagan, Suzan; Sankar, Sudhir; Hamilton, Ben; Maslennikov, Alona; Amaravathy, P.; Lichtman, Timor; Seth, Sonali; Nayak, Tanmayaa; Jagannathan, Ramya; Ganesan, Velmurugan; Mamane, Hadas; Fishman, Ram; Pradeep, Thalappil, ACS Sustainable Resource Management (Submitted) 2026, People’s Water Data: Design and Validation of a Scalable Decentralized Framework for Monitoring Drinking Water Safety.
2. Sudarsan Vishnupriya, Kamalesh Chaudhari, Ramya Jagannathan, Thalappil Pradeep, Particle and Particle Systems Characterization, 30(12), 1056-1062, 2013, Single-Cell Investigations of Silver Nanoparticle–Bacteria Interactions. (Impact Factor 3.31)
3. Dheeraj K Singh,* Ramya Jagannathan,* Puneet Khandelwal, Priya Mary Abraham, Pankaj Poddar, Nanoscale, 05, 1882-1893, 2013, In situ synthesis and surface functionalization of gold nanoparticles with curcumin and their antioxidant properties: an experimental and density functional theory investigation. (Impact Factor 7.79)
4. Ramya Jagannathan, Priya Mary Abraham, Pankaj Poddar, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 116(50), 14533-14540, 2012, Temperature-Dependent Spectroscopic Evidences of Curcumin in Aqueous Medium: A Mechanistic Study of Its Solubility and Stability. (Impact Factor 2.99)
5. Muralidhar L Hegde, P Bharathi, Anitha Suram, Chitra Venugopal, Ramya Jagannathan, Pankaj Poddar, Pullabhatla Srinivas, Kumar Sambamurti, Kosagisharaf Jagannatha Rao, Janez Scancar, Luigi Messori, Luigi
Zecca, Paolo Zatta, Journal of Alzheimer’s disease, 17(3), 457-468, 2009, Challenges associated with metal chelation therapy in Alzheimer’s disease. (Impact Factor 4.47)
6. Ramya Jagannathan, A. S. Parmar, S. Adyanthaya, A. Prabhune, M. Muschol, P. Poddar, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 113(9), 3478-3486, 2009, In Situ Observation of Antibiotic Mediated Concurrent Growth of Two Distinct Homogeneous Populations of Gold Nanoparticles in Solution Phase. (Impact Factor 4.13)
This work is highlighted in the Nature India Journal http://www.nature.com/nindia/2009/090316/full/nindia.2009.82.html#B1 (and other leading newspapers in India) & also featured as an article, “Dressing-up Nanoparticles with Antibiotics & their Concurrent Bimodal Growth at Infancy”, CSIR NEWS, 59, 9, 2009, 132.
7. Raja Das, Ramya Jagannathan, Chandrashekhar Sharan, Umesh Kumar, Pankaj Poddar, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 113(52), 21493-21500, 2009, Mechanistic Study of Surface Functionalization of Enzyme Lysozyme Synthesized Ag and Au Nanoparticles Using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. (Impact Factor 4.13)
8. Ramya Jagannathan, Pankaj Poddar, Asmita Prabhune, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111(19), 6933-6938, 2007, Cephalexin-Mediated Synthesis of Quasi-Spherical and Anisotropic Gold Nanoparticles and Their in Situ Capping by the Antibiotic. (Impact Factor 4.13)

Skillset:

• Writing in Sciences (Online Course: Stanford University) and Science communication, Fundraising and grant writing
• Spectroscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging and Analysis (Trained on Multimode SPM equipped with Nanoscope IV controller from Veeco Instrument Inc., at CSIR-NCL, Pune, India)
  Ellipsometry (Trained on variable angle automated ellipsometer, M2000 from Woollam Inc., at CSIR-NCL) (Short Course on Ellipsometry by J. A. Woolom Co., Inc. at S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India), Environmental Sciences, Nanoparticles Chemistry, Basic Cell and Molecular Biology