Invited talks & Awards: Dr. Varsha Brahmkhatri

Membership

• Life membership of Society of Materials Chemistry (SMC), Bhabha Atomic Research centre (BARC), Mumbai
• Life membership of NATIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE SOCIETY OF INDIA.

Awards

• 2013 - DBT-RA Postdoctoral fellowship
• 2011 - INSPIRE fellowship AWARD (IF 110322) from DST
• 2012 - Forth Hope meeting with Nobel Laureates organized by JSPS (Tsukuba, Japan)
• 2010 - Best Oral Presentation award at “All Gujarat Research Scholar’s Meet”, at the Chemistry department, The M. S. University of Baroda,6th AGRSM, 31st Jan (2010)
• 2008 - Junior Research Fellow, DAE-BRNS, BARC project.
• 2007 - Gold medallist, Inorganic Chemistry, M. S. University of Baroda

Conferences

• Sunanda Punnepalli, Varsha Brahmkhatri, Bankala Krishnarjuna, Naveen sharma, Hanudatta S Atreya, Srinivasarao Raghothama;“Arresting aggregation of Alzheimer’s β-amyloid peptide fragments: An NMR and TEM study involving curcumin, polyphenol EGCG and copper”. International conference on “Neurodegenerative diseases: Pathogenesis to therapy” 16-18th November 2015, Centre for Brain research, IISc Bangalore.
• Indrani Pal, Shivanand Pudakalakatti, Varsha Brahmkhatri, H. S. Atreya; “Mechanistic Insights into the interaction between Silver nanoparticles and antimicrobial peptides” At 5th Indian Peptide Symposium on September 24-25, 2015 at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Jakkur, Bengaluru-560064.
• Indrani Pal, Varsha Brahmkhatri, H. S. Atreya “Silver nanoparticles conjugated peptides as efficient antimicrobial agents: Structure and mechanistic aspect” 21st conference of NMRS, Gurunanak Dev University, Amritsar, March 6-9, 2015.
• Varsha Brahmkhatri, Anjali Patel,“Biodiesel production by trans esterification of waste cooking oil over 12-tungstosilisic acid anchored to SBA-15” at Fourth Hope Meeting, held in Tsukuba, Japan from 6- 11th March 2012
• Anjali Patel, Varsha Brahmkhatri; “Supported Heteropolyacids: Synthesis Characterizaton and Acid catalysis” by at DAE-BRNS, International Symposium on Material Chemistry, BARC, Mumbai, 2 – 6th December (2008).
• Varsha Bhrmakhatri, Anjali Patel “Esterification of dicarboxylic acid to diesters using eco-friendly 12-tungstophosphoric acid supported onto different supports at 19th National Symposium on Catalysis, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, 18 – 21st January (2009).
• Ketan Patel, Varsha Bharmakhatri, Anjali Patel; “Manganese Salen supported onto Zirconia: Synthesis, Characterization and Aerobic oxidation of Styrene”, by at 11th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, 6 -8th February (2009).
• Varsha Brahmkhatri & Anjali Patel; “Synthesis of succinate esters over 12-tungstophosphoric acid anchored MCM-41: An efficient green catalyst”, 3rd Indo-Italian seminar on Green Chemistry, University of Delhi, 9th Dec (2009)
• Varsha Brahmkhatri, Anjali Patel;”Mesoporous Silica based drug delivery system: Synthesis and Characterization” at National Seminar on Confluence of Supramolecular Chemistry and Nano-science Department of Chemistry, Gujarat University 22-23rd January (2010)
• Varsha Brahmkhatri,Anjali Patel; “Green process for Esterification of Succinic acid, a potential bio platform molecule, over solid acid catalyst comprising 12-tungstophosphoric acid and Mesoporous material”6th AGRSM, 31st Jan (2010)
• Varsha Brahmkhatri,Anjali Patel 12-Tungstophsphoric acid anchored to MCM-41 for biodiesel production by esterification of Oleic acid. at DAE-BRNS, 3rd International Symposium on Material Chemistry, BARC, Mumbai, 7 – 11th December (2010).