Deepika Bharatula, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Singapore

Singapore

India

Singapore

I pursued my PhD at Kwan Research group (SCBE,NTU) under the supervision of Asst Prof. James Kwan and in collaboration with Assoc. Prof. Scott Rice (SCELSE, NTU) and Assoc. Prof. Enrico Marsili (Nazarbayev University). I worked on the following projects:• Understanding the effects of therapeutic ultrasound on Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms• Monitoring growth and development of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy Part of this work has been presented in various national and international conferences such as:• 178th Meeting Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA, USA, 2019• 177th Meeting Acoustical Society of America, Louisville, KY, USA, 2019• International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound, Nashville, TN, USA, 2018• 175th Meeting Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2018• International Conference on Biomedical Ultrasound, Hong Kong, 2017• FutureHealth, Singapore, 2017• American Institute for Chemical Engineers - Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, 2017I have also helped with a part of characterization for the project " Remote implantation of ultrasound sensitive PLGA microparticles"

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore

Based in NTU, in partnership with NUS, SCELSE is a research centre of excellence with focus on manipulating and harnessing microbial biofilm communities for various life science engineering applications. As a visiting PhD student in SCELSE, I worked on growing and characterizing biofilms and monitoring biofilm growth and development using electrochemical methods.

Singapore

Under Graduate Assistantship Programme (GAP), an initiative by Ministry of Education, Singapore, I have mentored undergraduate and high school students and assisted in the following projects:Final year project:• Real time monitoring of effect of therapeutic ultrasound on biofilms• Electrochemical studies of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms• Electrochemical scrutinizing techniques on initial development of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strainUndergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) Programme:• Sounding out bacteria: understanding the bio-effects of ultrasound on bacteriaScientific Mentorship Programme (SMP):• Effects of the use of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) particles (PLGA) with ultrasound on bacterial (Pseudomonas aeruginosa) biofilm

Singapore

Under Graduate Assistantship Programme (GAP), an initiative by Ministry of Education, Singapore, I have assisted in teaching the following labs:•Year 1 UG students : CH1802 C6- Chem/Bio Engineering lab: Partial molar volume•Year 2 UG students: CH2802 C7- Chem/Bio Engineering lab: Partial molar volume•Year 1 UG students : CH1801 C2- Chem/Bio Engineering lab: Solubility and solubility product and introduction to excel•Year 1 UG students : BG1801 L2- Bioengineering lab: Solubility and solubility product and introduction to excel

Pune Area, India

National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), a constituent of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is a research and development based organization known for its scientific research in chemistry and chemical engineering. Under the guidance of Dr. Dattatray Late, I worked on the project titled "Inorganic layered Materials and their gas sensing application”. The work entailed the following:• Hydrothermal synthesis of tin disulphide, an inorganic component of graphene. • Characterization of as-synthesized nanoparticles using Raman Spectroscopy, X-Ray Diffraction, Scanning Electron Microscopy and Transmission Electron Microscopy were used as nanostructure characterization techniques. • Humidity and alcohol sensing application of tin disulphide. The work has been published in RSC Advances, Volume 6, Issue 107, pp 105421-105427 (https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/ra/c6ra21252b/unauth#!divAbstract)

Pune Area, India

Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology, Pune is a scientific society under Ministry of Communications and Information Technology working on new generation electronic materials and processing technologies. Under the guidance of Dr. Parag Adhyapak and Dr. Imtiaz Mulla, I worked on project titled "Synthesis and characterization of Impurity doped Zinc Oxide nanoparticles and their gas sensing properties".This work constituted the following:• Hydrothermal synthesis of ZnO and erbium doped ZnO.• Characterization using X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy and UV–visible spectroscopy. • Sensing volatile organic compounds such as acetone, ethanol, ammonia, triethylamine (TEA), ethylenediamine (EDA), formaldehyde and dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) using ZnO and Er:ZnO. The results were published in Current Smart materials, Volume 2, Number 2, 2017, pp. 146-152(7) (https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/ben/csm/2017/00000002/00000002/art00008)

Pune Area, India

Defence institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) is a deemed University under the Department of Defence Research & Development, Ministry of Defence, Government of India. I worked under the guidance of Dr. Sangeeta Kale, Nanomaterials for sensing applications group on the project titled "Synthesis and Characterization of Lanthanum Aluminate".I worked on the sol-gel synthesis of lanthanum aluminate nanoparticles and its characterization using X ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Ultrasound-Biofilm Interactions

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Nanotechnology