Varun Kumaraswamy Annayya Chetty Sreeniv
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Dr. Sreenivasan received an M.Sc in Photonics from Cochin University of Science and Technology in Kerala, India. Afterwards, he pursued a Ph.D. in physics at Maquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His doctoral thesis focussed on the development and use of fluorescent nanoparticles to study molecular trafficking of somatostatin, a hormone that serves physiological functions such as breathing and blood pressure in mammals. Upon completing Ph.D., he spent ten months as a post-doc at the Bobby R Alford Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, USA. He studied the voltage-dependent capacitance of outer hair cells of guinea pig cochlea, aiming to find fundamental differences that explain variations in hearing between animals of different sex and skin colour. He also developed the hardware-control algorithms with which the lab collects cytoskeletal force data using the optical tweezers.
Research Interest
Molecular & cellular biophysics, cell signaling and motility, biological & biomedical imaging, high resolution & single molecule optical microscopy and nanoparticles.
Publications
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I. Staudeψ, V. K. A. Sreenivasanψ, I. Shishkin, K. Samusev, M. Decker, D. N. Neshev, A. V. Zvyagin, Y. S. Kivshar, “Selective placement of quantum dots on nanoscale areas of metal-free substrates", Physica Status Solidi Rapid Research Letters, Vol. 8, pp. 710, 2014
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W. A. Wan Razali, V. K. A. Sreenivasan, E. M. Goldys, A. V. Zvyagin, “Large-Scale Production and Characterization of Biocompatible Colloidal Nanoaluminaâ€, Langmuir, Vol. 30, pp. 15091, 2014
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Sreenivasan VK. Fluorescent nanoparticles: a probe to study the molecular trafficking of somatostatin.
