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Dr. Meena Bisht

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Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry meena@svc.ac.in


Educational Qualifications

  • Ph.D.
  • M.Sc.

Areas of Specialization

  • Physical Chemistry, Biocatalysis, Protein packaging, Green Chemistry, Biophysical Chemistry, Biomass valorization
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Administrative roles/ responsibilities

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Courses Taught

  • B.Sc. (H) Chemistry, B.Sc. Life Sciences
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[1] Krishan Kumar, Meena Bisht, Harshita Arora, Seyed Majid Ghoreishian, Reddicherla Umapathi, Yun Suk Huh, and Pannuru Venkatesu, Temperature-switchable polymer: uniting deep eutectic solvents with poly(n isopropylacrylamide) and poly(n vinyl caprolactam), ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2022, 10, 30, 9991–10002 (Contributed equally).


[2] Vallari R. Chourasia, Meena Bisht, Kamal K. Pant, Robert J. Henry, Unveiling the potential of water as a co-solvent in microwave-assisted delignification of sugarcane bagasse using ternary deep eutectic solvents, Bioresource Technology, 2022 , 127005.


[3] Diksha Dhiman, Meena Bisht, Ana PM Tavares, Mara G Freire, Pannuru Venkatesu, Cholinium- based ionic liquids as efficient media for improving the structural and thermal stability of immunoglobulin g antibodies, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng, 2022, 10, 5404–5420.


[4] Sachin M Shet, Pranav Bharadwaj, Meena Bisht, Matheus M Pereira, Sarath Kumar Thayallath, Veeresh Lokesh, Gregory Franklin, Nataraj Sanna Kotrappanavar, Dibyendu Mondal, Presenting B-DNA as macromolecular crowding agent to improve efficacy of cytochrome c under various stresses, Int. J. Biol. Macromol., 2022, 215, 184-191.


[5] Meena Bisht,* Margarida Martins, Ana C. R. V. Dias, Sónia P. M. Ventura* and João A. P. Coutinho, Uncovering the potential of aqueous solutions of deep eutectic solvents on the extraction and purification of collagen type I from Atlantic codfish (Gadus morhua), Green Chem.,2021, 23, 8940-8948.


[6] Pankaj Bharmoria,‡ Meena Bisht,‡ Maria C Gomes,‡ Margarida Martins, Márcia C Neves, João F Mano, Igor Bdikin, João AP Coutinho, Sónia PM Ventura, Protein-olive oil-in-water nanoemulsions as encapsulation materials for curcumin acting as anticancer agent towards MDA- MB-231 cells, Scientific Reports, 2021, 11, 9099 (‡Contributed equally).


[7] Meena Bisht, Marcia C. Neves, Joana L. Pereira, Siddharth Pandey, Robin D Roger, Joao A.P.Coutinho, Sonia P.M. Ventura, Enhanced dissolution and extraction of chitin from crawfish using acidic deep eutectic solvent, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng, 2021, 9, 16073-16081.


[8] Divya Dhingra, ‡ Meena Bisht, ‡ Bhawna, Siddharth Pandey, Enhanced solubility and improved stability of curcumin in novel water-in-deep eutectic solvent microemulsions, J. Mol. Liq., 339, 2021, 117037 (‡Contributed equally).


[9] Niketa Yadav, Manohara Halanur M., Meena Bisht, SK Nataraj, Pannuru Venkatesu, Dibyendu Mondal, Multifunctional solvothermal carbon derived from alginate using ‘water-in-deep eutectic solvents’ for enhancing enzyme activity, Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 9659-9662.


[10] Sachin M. Shet, Meena Bisht, Sabyasachi Pramanik, Shilaj Roy, Sarath Kumar T., S. K. Nataraj, Dibyendu Mondal, Satyapriya Bhandari, Engineering quantum dots with ionic liquid: a multifunctional white light emitting hydrogel for enzyme packaging, Advanced Optical Materials, 2020, 8, 1902022.


[11] Kavya Bhakuni, Anamika Sindhu, Meena Bisht, and Pannuru Venkatesu, Exploring the counteracting and refolding ability of choline-based ionic liquids toward crowding environment-induced changes in HSA structure, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2021, 9,422–437.


[12] Anamika Sindhu, Meena Bisht, Indra Bahadur, Pannuru Venkatesu, Assessing the compatibility of mono-, di-, and tri-cholinium citrate ionic liquids for the stability and activity of α-Chymotrypsin, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2021, 9, 4812–4822.


[13] Sachin M. Shet, Sarath Kumar T., Meena Bisht, Matheus M. Pereira, João A. P. Coutinho, Sanna Kotrappanavar Nataraj, and Dibyendu Mondal, Engineering cytochrome c with quantum dots and ionic liquids: A win-win strategy for protein packaging against multiple stresses, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng, 2021, 9, 8327-8335.


[14] Krishan Kumar, Reddicherla Umapathi, Meena Bisht, Seyed Majid Ghoreishian, Yun Suk Huh, and Pannuru Venkatesu, Tweaking behavior of hydrogen bond donor in choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvents for regulating the phase transition of poly(n -vinylcaprolactam): a sustainable medium for an early hydrophobic collapse, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng, 2021, 9, 14335-14344.


[15] Niketa Yadav, Kavya Bhakuni, Meena Bisht, Indra Bahadur, Pannuru Venkatesu, Expanding the potential role of deep eutectic solvents toward facilitating the structural and thermal stability of α-Chymotrypsin, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2020, 8, 10151-10160.


[16] Kavya Bhakuni, Meena Bisht, P. Venkatesu, Dibyendu Mondal, Designing biological fluid inspired molecularly crowded ionic liquid media as sustainable packaging platform for Cytochrome c, ChemComm., 2019, 55, 5747-5750.


[17] Meena Bisht, Indrani Jha and Pannuru Venkatesu, Does choline-based amino acid ionic liquid behave as a biocompatible solvent for stem bromelain structure? Process Biochemistry, 2018, 74, 77-85.


[18] Indrani Jha, Meena Bisht, Navin Kumar Mogha, and Pannuru Venkatesu, The effect of imidazolium-based ionic liquids on structure and stability of stem bromelain: concentration and alkyl chain length effect, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2018, 122, 7522-7529.


[19] Kiran Kumar, Meena Bisht, Pannuru Venkatesu, Indra Bahadur, EE Ebenso, Exploring the effect of choline-based ionic liquids on the stability and activity of stem bromelain, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2018, 122, 10435-10444.


[20] Kanakaraj Aruchamy, Meena Bisht, Pannuru Venkatesu, Dharmalingam Kalpana, Nidhi Maalige, Nripat Singh, Debasis Ghosh , Dibyendu Mondal and Sanna Kotrappanavar Nataraj, Direct conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biomimetic tendril-like functional carbon helices: a protein friendly host for cytochrome c, Green Chem, 2018, 20, 3711-3716.


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Projects

Nanoemulsion hydrogel platform for thermodynamic stability and enhanced bioavailability of curcumin from Curcuma longa for topical administration, funded by SERB, India.