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1 Ramkrishna Adhikary ramchem@iastate.edu Phone Number : Campus Address Home Address th Street, Apt # Gilman Hall, Ames, IA Ames, IA EDUCATION PhD, Chemistry 2005-Current Iowa State University, USA Advisor : Prof. Jacob W. Petrich MS, Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India Dissertation : Spectroscopic Investigation of Macromolecular Interactions Advisor : Prof. Anindya Datta BS, Chemistry, (First Class) University of Calcutta, India RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Photophysical Properties of Cyclocurcumin. Solvation Dynamics of Heme Protein using C153 as a Fluorescent Probe. Excited-State Intramolecular Hydrogen Atom Transfer (ESIHT) of Medicinal Pigment Curcumin in Bulk Solvent and Organized Medium. Cotribution from Locally Excited and Charge-Transferred State of PRODAN in Solvation Dynamics in Heterogenous Environment. Retinal Fluorescence Spectroscopy from Healthy and Scrapie Sheep Eye for Diagnosis of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalophathies (TSEs). Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Central Nervous System (CNS) and non-cns Tissues from Bovine and Murine Animals for Food Safety. Photophysics of Naproxen Analogs in Chiral Room Temperature Ionic Liquids. Solvation Dynamics of Coumarin 153 in Room Temperature Ionic Liqiuds. Interaction of Low-density Lipoprotein with Hypericin.

2 Interaction of Surfactants with Cyclodextrins using Chlorin-p 6 as Fluorescent Probe. LABORATORY SKILLS Home-built Time-Resolved Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) Home-built Fluorescence Upconversion Regeneratively Amplified Ti:Sapphire System Nano-second Laser Flash Photolysis Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) Hyperspectral Fluorescence Imaging Microscopy CW Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) Imaging Microscopy Absorption and Fluorescence Spectrophotometer CW THz System Karl Fisher Titrator TEACHING EXPERIENCE Spring 2010 : Concepts in Thermodynamics (CHEM 321) and Fundamentals of Quantum Spring 2009 : Concepts in Thermodynamics (CHEM 321) and Fundamentals of Quantum Fall 2008 : General Chemistry for Freshmen (CHEM 155); Recitation and (CHEM 177); Laboratory Fall 2006 : General Chemistry for Freshmen (CHEM 177); Recitation and Laboratory Spring 2005 : Concepts in Thermodynamics (CHEM 321) and Fundamentals of Quantum Fall 2005 : General Chemistry for Freshmen (CHEM 177); Laboratory HONORS AND AWARDS

3 The Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Outstanding Research, Iowa State University, 2010 Iowa State University Teaching Excellence Award, 2010 American Chemical Society Travel Award, 2008 National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship in Chemical Science, India, 2005 Madhav Pandey Fellowship, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, National Merit Scholarship, Government of West Bengal, India, 1999 PUBLICATIONS As PhD Student 17. Adhikary R, Trampel RL, Kee TW, Petrich JW. Cis-Trans Isomerization of Cyclocurcumin (In Preparation). 16. Adhikary R, Mukherjee P, Schönenbrücher H, Casey TA, Rasmussen MA, Petrich J W. Real Time Detection of Central Nervous System Tissues on Bovine Carcasses using Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Am. Lab. 2010, 3, Bose S, Adhikary R, Barnes CA, Fulton B, Hargrove MS, Song X, Petrich JW. Comparison of the Dielectric Response obtained from Fluorescence Upconversion Measurements and Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Coumarin 153-apomyoglobin Complexes and Structural Analysis of the Complexes by NMR and Fluorescence Methods. J. Phys. Chem. A 2010 (In Press, Special Issue). 14. Adhikary R, Mukherjee P, Krishnamoorthy G, Kunkle RA, Casey TA, Rasmussen MA, Petrich JW. Fluorescence Spectroscopy of the Retina for Diagnosis of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies. Anal. Chem. 2010, 82, Adhikary R, Bose S, Casey TA, Gapsch A, Rasmussen MA and Petrich JW. Applications of Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Problems of Food Safety: Detection of Fecal Contamination and of the Presence of Central Nervous System Tissue and Diagnosis of Neurological Disease. Proceedings of SPIE 2010, 7576, /1-15 (Invited Paper). 12. Adhikary R, Carlson PJ, Kee TW, Petrich JW. Excited-State Intramolecular Hydrogen Atom Transfer of Curcumin in Surfactant Micelles. J. Phys. Chem. B 2010, 114, Adhikary R, Barnes CA, Petrich JW. Solvation Dynamics of the Fluorescent Probe PRODAN in Heterogeneous Environments: Contributions from the Locally Excited and Charge-transferred States. J. Phys. Chem. B 2009, 113,

4 10. Adhikary R, Schönenbrücher H, Rasmussen MA, Casey TA, Hamir AN, Kehrli ME, Richt JA, Petrich JW. A Comparison of the Fluorescence Spectra of Murine and Bovine Central Nervous System and other Tissues. Photochem. Photobiol. 2009, 85, Bose S, Adhikary R, Mukherjee P, Song X, Petrich JW. Considerations for the Construction of the Solvation Correlation Function and Implications for the Interpretation of Dielectric Relaxation in Proteins. J. Phys. Chem. B 2009, 113, (Feature Article, Cover Page) 8. Adhikary R, Mukherjee P, Kee TW, Petrich JW. Excited-state Intramolecular Hydrogen Atom Transfer and Solvation Dynamics of the Medicinal Pigment Curcumin. J. Phys. Chem. B 2009, 113, Mukherjee P, Bose S, Hurd AA, Adhikary R, Schönenbrücher H, Hamir AN, Richt JA, Casey TA, Rasmussen MA, Petrich JW. Monitoring the Accumulation of Lipofuscin in Aging Murine Eyes by Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Photochem. Photobiol. 2009, 85, Schönenbrücher H, Adhikary R, Mukherjee P, Casey TA, Rasmussen MA, Maistrovich FD, Hamir AN, Kehrli ME, Jr. Richt JA, Petrich JW. Fluorescence-Based Method, Exploiting Lipofuscin, for Real-Time Detection of Central Nervous System Tissues on Bovine Carcasses. J. Agric. Food. Chem. 2008, 56, Adhikary R, Bose S, Mukherjee P, Thite A, Kraus GA, Wijeratne AB, Sharma PS, Armstrong DW, Petrich JW. Influence of Chiral Ionic Liquids on the Excited-State Properties of Naproxen Analogs. J. Phys. Chem. B 2008,112, Mukherjee P, Adhikary R, Halder M, Petrich JW, Miskovsky P. Accumulation and Interaction of Hypericin in Low-density Lipoprotein a Photophysical Study. Photochem. Photobiol. 2008, 84, Mukherjee P, Crank JA, Sharma PS, Wijeratne AB, Adhikary R, Bose S, Armstrong DW, Petrich JW. Dynamic Solvation in Phosphonium Ionic Liquids: Comparison of Bulk and Micellar Systems and Considerations for the Construction of the Solvation Correlation Function, C(t). J. Phys. Chem. B 2008, 112, As MS Student 2. Mishra PP, Adhikary R, Lahiri P, Datta A. Chlorin p6 as a Fluorescent Probe for the Investigation of Surfactant-Cyclodextrin Interactions. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 2006, 5, Mishra PP, Adhikary R, Lahiri P, Datta A. Chlorin p6 as a Fluorescent Probe for the Investigation of Surfactant-Cyclodextrin Interactions. Proceedings of SPIE 2006, 6097, /1-10. TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS Oral Presentation Toward a New Fluorescence Based Method for the Real-Time Detection of

5 Central Nervous System (CNS) Tissues on Bovine Carcasses. 236th American Chemical Society National Meeting, 2008, Philadelphia. Poster Presentation Excited-State Intramolecular Hydrogen Atom Transfer in the Medical Pigment Curcumin. Open House, Iowa State University, Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) Microscopy: from Steady-State Prototype to a Time Resolved, Tunable System. Open House, Iowa State University, Influence of Chiral Ionic Liquids on the Excited-State Properties of Naproxen Analogs. 236th American Chemical Society National Meeting, 2008, Philadelphia. Toward a New Fluorescence Based Method for the Real-Time Detection of Central Nervous System (CNS) Tissues on Bovine Carcasses. Open House, Iowa State University, Characterization of a Novel Hypericin Like Pigment from Phototactic Marine Ciliate Maristentor dinoferus. Open House, Iowa State University, Contributed Oral Presentation Excited-state Intramolecular Hydrogen Atom Transfer and Solvation Dynamics of Curcumin in Surfactant Micelles. 239th American Chemical Society National Meeting, 2010, San Francisco. Solvation Dynamics of the Fluorescent Probe, PRODAN, in Heterogeneous Environments: Contributions from the Locally Excited and Charge-Transferred States. 239th American Chemical Society National Meeting, 2010, San Francisco. REFERENCES 1. Prof. Jacob W. Petrich (PhD Advisor) Tel: jwp@iastate.edu 2. Prof. Mark S. Gordon Tel: mark@si.msg.chem.iastate.edu 3. Prof. Xueyu Song Tel: xsong@iastate.edu