Ambak Kumar Rai
Associate Professor
Department of Biotechnology
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: ambakrai[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: +91-532-2271241(O) +91-8765787601(M)
Thesis Supervised
| S.No | Research Topic | Name of Student | Completion/Registration Year | Ph.D. Completed: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Role of Vitamin A on immune response against Leishmania donovani | Pankaj Verma | 2013-2018 |
| 2 | Study to investigate the expression and function of CD6 in human T cells | Amit Kumar Kureel | 2014-2020 |
| 3 | Role of eicosanoid(s) in immune response against Leishmania donovani infection | Sheetal Saini | 2014-2020 |
| 4 | Study to understand the molecular mechanism(s) of exonal switch in human cd5 gene | Smita Kumari | 2015 -2022 |
| 5 | Study to understand the impaired accumulation of cholesterol in L. donovani infected macrophages | Satyaprakash | 2016 - 202 | Ph.D. Ongoing |
| 1 | Study to understand the expression and function of CD5 in geriatric individuals | Bharat Singh | 2017 onwar |
| 2 | Sate of Art delivered | Ranjeet Bahadur Choubey | 2019 onwar |
| 3 | Registered and currently completing course work | Sweta | August 202 |
| 4 | Registered and currently completing course work | Vibha | July 2023 |
| 5 | Registered and currently completing course work | Debjani Sen | July 2023 | M.Tech Students |
| 1 | Targeting Glyoxalase pathway in Leishmania donovani: A computational molecular docking approach. | Adarsh Chiranjeevi | 2013 |
| 2 | To study the ATP metabolism and its effect on extracellular inorganic phosphate levels in romestigote from of L. donovani parasite | Kashika Arora | 2014 |
| 3 | Study to understand the Phosphate Transpoter(s)in promestigote form of Leishmania donovani | Sindhu K J | 2015 |
| 4 | Study to understand the detoxification of methylglyoxal in promastigote from Leishmania donovani parasite | Pavitra Ramdas | 2016 |
| 5 | Study to explore the presence of ......in clinical isolates of Leishmania donovani | Sonam | 2017 |
| 6 | Study to investigate the exonal switch of cd5 gene in hypoxia treated PBMCs samples among healthy humans | Swarnima Gupta | 2018 |
| 7 | Study to understand the expression of non-conventional transcript of cd5 gene | Vaishali Shukla | 2021 |
| 8 | Study to demonstrate the HIF-1α mediated regulation of non-conventional mRNA of human CD5 gene | Srishti Sahu | 2022 | B.Tech Students |
| 1 | Study of Anti-Leishmania activity of Agave species | Alok Singh and Dinesh Kumar Jaiswal | 2013 |
| 2 | A Study to Understand Accumulation of Methylglyoxal in L. donovani with Focus on Glyoxalase Pathway: a Potential Drug Target | Praachi Tiwari | 2014 |
| 3 | Molecular docking of ATP diphospho- hydrolase from L. donovani | Akhilesh Kumar Gupta and Prashant Jaiswal | 2014 |
| 4 | Study to explore linkage between methylglyoxal and levels of Pi in L. donovani | Arya | 2015 |
| 5 | Interactive voice response (IVR) based direct monitoring of drug adherence among tuberculosis patients | Ashish Kumar and Gautam Amit Meena | 2015 |
| 6 | Transporter protein specific to methylglyoxal other than AQP1 in L. donovani | Lisha Verma and Kumar Gaurav | 2016 |
| 7 | Targeting glycosomal and cytosolic GAPDH enzymes for development of drug against Leishmania donovani | Manish Awasthi, Kuldeep and Priyanjali | 2017 |
| 8 | Study to investigate all isoforms of CD6 in hypoxia treated PBMCs samples among healthy humans | Komal Sethia | 2018 |
| 9 | In-silico designing of inhibitor against phosphate transporters of L. donovani parasite | Zeeshan Ali and Arvind B | 2018 |
| 10 | Study to design inhibitor(s) against aqua-glyceroporin transporters in L. donovani | Keshav Singh and Tejavath Ajith | 2019 |
| 11 | A computational study to understand the mechanism(s) of cd5 down regulation on the Leukemic T-cells of HTLV+ ATLL cases | Nimisha Gupta | 2021 |
| 12 | In-silico approach to identify inhibitor against amastin surface protein of Leishmania to cure visceral leishmaniasis | Aman Joshi | 2021 |
| 13 | To understand the role of myc protein in the expression of non-conventional isoform of CD5 | Bintee | 2022 |
| 14 | Computational approach to identify potential drug(s) against L. donovani specific amastin protein | Ravi Prakash Mishra | 2022 |