Dr. Kaushik Pal

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

• Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscopy
• Biophysical Chemistry
• Chemical Biology
• Mechanobiology
• Supramolecular Chemistry

Education

• Ph.D.: IISER Bhopal, India, 2018
• M.Sc: Visva Bharati, India (Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Specialization), 2012.
• B.Sc: Visva Bharati, India (Chemistry Honours), 2010.

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Tirupati (July 2023-till date)
• Postdoctoral Associate Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA (2022-2023)
• Postdoctoral Associate at Iowa State University, USA (2018-2022).

Latest Publications

• Kaushik Pal, Ying Tu, Xuefeng Wang, Single-Molecule Force Imaging Reveals That Podosome Formation Requires No Extracellular Integrin-Ligand Tensions or Interactions, ACS Nano, 16, 2022, 2481.
• Kaushik Pal, Yuanchang Zhao, Yongliang Wang, Xuefeng Wang, Ubiquitous membrane-bound dnase activity in podosomes and invadopodia, J. Cell Biol., 220, 2021, e202008079.
• Yuanchang Zhao, Kaushik Pal, Ying Tu, Xuefeng Wang, Cellular force nanoscopy with 50 nm resolution based on integrin molecular tension imaging and localization, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 2020, 6930.
• Kaushik Pal, Vikas Sharma, Dhananjaya Sahoo, Nilotpal Kapuria, Apurba L. Koner, Large Stokes-shifted NIR emission from nanospace-induced aggregation of perylenemonoimide doped polymer nanoparticle: imaging of folate receptor expression, Chem. Commun., 54, 2018, 523.
• Kaushik Pal, Apurba L. Koner, Rationally Designed solvatochromic fluorescent indoline derivatives for probing mitochondrial environment, Chem. Eur. J., 23, 2017, 8610