Dr. Bhumika Ray

Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
Kusuma School of Biological Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Email: bhumikaray@bioschool.iitd.ac.in
Education: PhD Biophysics, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, Delhi



Selected publications:

B Ray and R Mehrotra* (2020). Nucleic Acid Binding Mechanism of Flavone Derivative, Riviciclib: Structural Analysis to Unveil Anticancer Potential. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 211, 111990

R Mehrotra*, and Bhumika Ray (2019). Substantial Role of Infrared Spectroscopy in Lung Cancer Detection. Clinics in Oncology 4,1577 (Editorial)

B Ray#, B Gupta# and R* Mehrotra (2019). Binding of Platinum Derivative, Oxaliplatin to Deoxyribonucleic Acid: Structural Insight into Antitumor Action. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 37 (14), 3838-3847

R Mehrotra*, G Tyagi, S Charak, B Ray, G Kadayaprath, H Chaturvedi, U Mukherji and A Abrari (2018). Biospectroscopic Analysis of Human Breast Cancer Tissue: Probing Infrared Signatures to Comprehend Biochemical Alterations. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 36 (3), 761-766

B Ray, Shweta Agarwal, H Kadyan, K Gambhir, P Sharma and R Mehrotra* (2017). Deciphering Molecular Aspects of Interaction Between Anticancer Drug Mitoxantrone and tRNA. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 35 (10), 2090-2102

K Gambhir, B Ray, R Mehrotra and P Sharma* (2017). Morphology Dependent Two Photon Absorption in Plasmonic Structures and Plasmonic-Organic Hybrids. Optics and Laser Technology 90, 201-210

R Mehrotra*, B Ray and H Chaturvedi (2016). Biochemical Characterization of Lung Cancer Tissues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. Journal of Cancer and Clinical Oncology 2 (1), 1-8

B Ray, S Agarwal, N Lohani, M R Rajeswari and R Mehrotra* (2016). Structural, Conformational and Thermodynamic Aspects of Groove Directed-Intercalation of Flavopiridol into DNA. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 34 (11), 2518-2535

S Agarwal, B Ray and R Mehrotra* (2015). Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy as an Advanced Tool for Investigating Chloroethyl Nitrosourea Derivatives Complexation with DNA. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 81, 891-897

R Mehrotra*, D K Jangir, S Agarwal, B Ray, P Singh and A K Srivastava (2013). Interaction Studies of Anticancer Drug Lomustine with Calf Thymus DNA using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Mapan 28 (4), 273-27
 



Workshop/Conference/Symposium attended:

Workshops: 01
International Conferences/Symposium: 10
National Conference Attended: 04


Awards/Fellowships/Grants:

Awarded Research Associate Fellowship by CSIR, GoI (March 2021)

International Travel Award 2018 by DST, GoI to attend 62nd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, San Francisco, USA (Feb 2018)

International Travel Award by CSIR, GoI and DBT, GoI

Awarded INSPIRE-Junior Research Fellowship by DST, GoI (March 2015)

Awarded Gold Medal for Best Graduating Student in MTech at National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra (March 2013)

Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Biotechnology by MHRD, GoI
(Feb 2011 and Feb 2012)


Previous Research Experience:

CSIR-Research Associate (April 2021-Sep 2021). Project topic "Plasmons Based Nano-Immunoassay for Serum Markers’ Determination’ under the mentorship of Dr. Parag Sharma, Principal Scientist, Optical Radiation Metrology (ORM) Section, Physico Mechanical Metrology Division (PMMD), CSIR-NPL Delhi

PhD (Jan 2015-Jan 2020). Thesis entitled, ‘Binding Mechanism of Anticancer Flavonoids and their Derivatives with Nucleic Acid’ under the supervision of Dr. Ranjana Mehrotra, Former Chief Scientist, ORM Section, PMMD, CSIR-NPL Delhi