Dr. Poulami Jana

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsPreparative and Physical Chemistry of Polymers
KeywordsDNA/RNA binding, Cellular uptake, amphiphilic peptide, secondary structure, Gene delivery
Honours and awards

2017: DST-INSPIRE FACULTY FELLOW

Current contact address

CountryIndia
CitySantiniketan
InstitutionVisva-Bharati University
InstituteIntegrated Science Education and Research Centre (ISERC)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Carsten SchmuckInstitut für Organische Chemie, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2014

Programme(s)

2013Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2017Poulami Jana and Carsten Schmuck*: Self-Assembly of a Tripodal Triszwitterion Forms a pH-Switchable Hydrogel that Can Reversibly Encapsulate Hydrophobic Guests in Water. In: Chemistry a European Journal, 2017, 320-326
2016Krishnananda Samanta,a Poulami Jana,a Sandra Ba¨cker,b Shirley Knauerb and Carsten Schmuck*: Guanidiniocarbonyl pyrrole (GCP) conjugated PAMAM-G2, a highly efficient vector for gene delivery: the importance of DNA condensation. In: ChemComm, 2016, 12446-12449
2016Poulami Jana, Martin Ehlers, Elio Zellermann, Krishnananda Samanta, and Carsten Schmuck*: pH-Controlled Formation of a Stable b-Sheet and Amyloid-like Fibers from an Amphiphilic Peptide: The Importance of a Tailor-Made Binding Motif for Secondary Structure Formation. In: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 15287-15291