Nishu Kanwa
PostDoc
After studying chemistry for her Bachelor’s and master’s degree at Miranda House College (New Delhi), Nishu obtained her PhD in Physical Chemistry from IIT Indore in India. During her PhD, she studied lipid membranes and their biophysical properties. In 2021, she joined the lab of Petra Schwille where her current research is driven towards membrane biophysics and cell-mimetic membrane compartments (lipid rafts) in vitro to understand their relevance in cellular functions.
Research Interests
Membrane biophysics, lipid rafts, membrane-protein interactions, DNA origami
Publications
Kanwa, N., Gavrilovic, S., Brüggenthies, G.A., Qutbuddin, Y., Schwille, P.
Inducing Lipid Domains in Membranes by Self-Assembly of DNA Origami
Advanced Materials Interfaces (2023), https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202202500
Babl L., Merino-Salomón A., Kanwa N., Schwille P.
Membrane mediated phase separation of the bacterial nucleoid occlusion protein Noc.
Scientific Reports (2022), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22680-5
Subramanyan J., Dave A. K., Ali A. A., Kanwa N., Yadav S., Sameera, Meena S.
Urease Activity in Pigeon Pea Seeds.
IJARESM (2022) https://doi.org/10.56025/IJARESM.2022.101222142
Kanwa N., M. K., Chakraborty A.
Discriminatory interaction behaviour of lipid vesicles towards diversely emissive carbon dots synthesized from ortho, meta and para isomeric carbon precursors.
Langmuir (2020), https://doi.org/10.1021/Acs.Langmuir.0C02207
Kanwa N., De S. K., Maity A., Chakraborty A.
Interaction of aliphatic amino acids with zwitterionic and charged lipid membranes: hydration and dehydration phenomena.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2020), https://doi.org/10.1039/C9Cp06188F
De S. K., Kanwa N., Chakraborty A.
Influence of Trivalent Metal Ions on Lipid Vesicles: Gelation and Fusion Phenomena.
Langmuir (2019), https://doi.org/10.1021/Acs.Langmuir.9B00682
Kanwa N., Patnaik A., De S. K., Ahamed M., Chakraborty A.
Effect of surface ligand and temperature on lipid vesicle-gold nanoparticle interaction: a spectroscopic investigation.
Langmuir (2019), https://doi.org/10.1021/Acs.Langmuir.8B03673
Kanti De S., Kanwa N., Ahamed M., Chakraborty A.
Spectroscopic evidence for hydration and dehydration of lipid bilayers upon interaction with metal ions: a new physical insight.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2018), https://doi.org/10.1039/C8Cp01774C
Kanwa N., Dey S. K., Adhikari C., Chakraborty A.
A Spectroscopic Study of the Interaction of Carboxyl-Modified Gold Nanoparticles with Liposomes of Different Chain Lengths and Controlled Drug Release by Layer-by-Layer Technology.
J. Phys. Chem. B (2017), https://doi.org/10.1021/Acs.Jpcb.7B08455