Dr. Sreeja Sasidharan.

Dr. Sreeja Sasidharan

Assistant Professor in Biophysics
School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala
📧 sree.vasanthysasi@gmail.com | sreejasasidharan@mgu.ac.in 📞 +91 63619 21553 / +1 484 773 3669
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Profile:
A biophysicist with 10 years of research experience in membrane biophysics and cell mechanobiology. Her work integrates microfluidics, lipid biochemistry, and advanced microscopy to study cellular flow sensing and protein transport mechanisms.

Research Interests:

• Membrane Physics and Mechanobiology

• Protein Transport in Lipid Bilayers

• Microfluidics and Cell Biophysics

• Cytoskeleton Dynamics

Education:

• Ph.D. in Physics, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore (2013–2020)

• M.Sc. in Physics, IIT Madras (2011–2013)

• B.Sc. in Physics, Nirmala College (2008–2011)

Professional Experience:

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lehigh University, USA (2021–2025)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, IIT Bombay, India (2020–2021)

Publications:
Published in Science Advances, Biophysical Journal, J. Phys. Chem. B, and Soft Matter. Reviewer for Nature Communications and JACS.

1. Science Advances (2023) – A novel innate pathogen sensing strategy involving ubiquitination of bacterial surface proteins.
2. Biophysical Journal (2023) – Measuring flow-mediated protein drift across stationary supported lipid bilayers.
3. Biophysical Journal (2024) – Microfluidic measurement of the size and shape of lipid-anchored proteins.
4. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2022) – Molecular Mechanism of Hydrotropic Properties of GTP and ATP.
5. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Biomembranes (2021) – Effect of pH on the phase behavior of DMPC bilayers.
6. Journal of Molecular Liquids (2021) – Mesomorphic Triphenylene Polyanion-Surfactant Complexes.
7. Bulletin of Materials Science (2020) – Direct imaging of rippled structures of lipid-cholesterol membranes.
8. Soft Matter (2019) – Interaction of mononucleotide UMP with a fluid phospholipid bilayer.
9. Under Review (2025) – Flow transports extracellular lipid-anchored proteins across living COS-7 cells.
10. Under Review (2025) – Shear Stress Induces Concentration Gradient Distributions of Membrane Proteins in Live Cells.

Awards:

• Boulder Summer School Scholarship (2024)

• Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, IIT Bombay (2020)

• Junior Research Fellowship through JEST (2013)

Invited Talks and Conferences

• Biophysical Society Meeting, Los Angeles (2025).
• Invited Talk at Augsburg University, USA (2025).
• SRM University, Andhra Pradesh (2024).
• Poster at BPS 2024, Philadelphia, USA.
• Upstate NY Softmatter Symposium (2022).
• Southern University of Denmark, Odense (2018).
• Institut Curie, France (2018).
• Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany (2018).