Manjusha Verma
Post-doctoral Fellow

Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Chemistry & Biochemistry
311 Ferst Drive NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400

Phone: (404) 385-2300
Fax:  (404) 894-9085
email: manjusha.verma@chemistry.gatech.edu

  

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL CAREER:

  • Postdoctoral Research- December 2004- till date

(Overall first class honour)

  • Ph. D. Chemistry, 2004
    Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India
    Dissertation: Synthesis of some novel heterocyclic compounds
  • Master of Science (Chemistry), 2000
    Banaras Hindu University, India
  • Bachelor of Science (Distinction –Chemistry major), 1998
    Banaras Hindu University, India
  • Diploma in Computer Applications, 2000

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Lectured (Chemistry) and worked as Instructor for practical classes during 2003-04 at undergraduate level at the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Synthetic Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Novel materials. Fluorescent Probes, Nucleoside and Nucleotide Chemistry

PREVIOUS RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

Fluorescent Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Nucleoside and Nucleotides

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS:

Publications:

  1. Manjusha Verma, Aneese Chaudhary, Thomas Morgan, Christoph Fahrni, Electronically Tuned 1,3,5-triarylpyrazolines as Cu(I)-selective Fluorescent Probes, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2010, 8, 363-370, printed as  cover art.
  2. Aneese Chaudhry, Manjusha Verma, Thomas Morgan, Maged Henary, Nisan Siegel, Joel Hales, Joseph Perry, Christoph J. Fahrni, Kinetically Controlled Photoinduced Electron Transfer Switching in Cu(I)-Responsive Fluorescent Probes, Journal of American Chemical Society, 2010, 132 (2),  737–747
  3. Manjusha Verma, Aneese Chaudhary, Christoph Fahrni, Predicting the photoinduced electron transfer thermodynamics in polyfluorinated triarylpyrazolines based on multi linear free energy relationships, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2009, 7, 1536-1546, printed as cover art.
  4. Satish Kumar Singh, Manjusha Verma, Krishna Nand Singh, An efficient use of microwave-superoxide combination for synthesis of organic carbamates and dithiocarbamates, Indian Journal of Chemistry, 47B, 2008, 1545-1548.
  5. Manjusha Verma, Krishna Nand Singh, Erik Declercq, Synthesis and antiviral activity of some heterocyclic ureas derivatives. Heterocycles, 68 (1), 2006, 11-22
  6. Sundaram Singh, Manjusha Verma, Krishna Nand Singh, Superoxide ion induced oxidation of γ-Lactones to γ-Ketocarboxylic acids in aprotic medium. Synthetic Communication, 34(24), 2004, 4471-4475
  7. Ajay Kumar Shukla, Manjusha Verma, Krishna Nand Singh, Superoxide induced deprotection of 1,3-Dithiolanes: A convenient method of dedithioacetalization. Indian Journal Chemistry, 43B, 2004, 1748-1752
  8. Manjusha Verma, Surendra Nath Pandeya, Krishna Nand Singh, James P Stables, Promising anticonvulsant activity of Schiff bases of isatin derivatives. Acta Pharmaceutica, 54, 2004, 49-56
  9. Manjusha Verma, Sundaram Singh, Krishna Nand Singh, Synthesis of some new benzoxazine derivatives of biological interest. Heterocyclic Communications, 9(5), 2003, 499-502

Presentations:

  • Manjusha Verma and Krishna Nand Singh, “Exploring the Superoxide Ion : Role in Synthesis of Organic Substrate and Deprotection, 61st Southeastern Regional Meeting of the ACS, October 2009, Puerto Rico, USA.
  • Manjusha Verma and Krishna Nand Singh, “Isoindolylureas a new group of antiviral compounds” 232 American Chemical Society, September, 2006, San Fransico, USA.
  • Manjusha Verma and Krishna Nand Singh, “Fluoro and trifluorosemicarbazones as novel anticonvulsant drugs” 231 American Chemical Society, March, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  • Manjusha Verma, Surendra Nath Pandey, Krishna Nand Singh, James P Stables, “Synthesis of Schiff bases of Isatins as anticonvulsant”, 6th National Symposium in Chemistry, IIT Kanpur, 06 Feb-08 Feb, 2004, India.

RECENT AWARDS AND ACTIVITIES:

  • Invited Journal Reviewer:  Journal of Heterocylic Chemistry.
  • Awarded Senior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission (India’s counterpart of the NSF), India (2004)
  • Awarded B. H. U. Research Fellowship- Junior Research Fellowship (2000) and Senior Research   Fellowship, India (2003)
  • Qualified ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) NET (2003)
  • Qualified National Eligibility Test (2001and 2002) for research and eligibility for lectureship in Indian Universities/Institutes.
  • Qualified GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering), India (2001)