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“Lipids, Thermodynamics and Wetting: Implications for Environmentally Friendly Crop Protection” - A Talk by Dr. Guruswamy Kumaraswamy
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Friday, April 07, 2017, 05:00am
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THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES AND THE CENTRE FOR EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT  invite you to a talk byDr. GURUSWAMY KUMARASWAMY“LIPIDS, THERMODYNAMICS, AND WETTING: IMPLICATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CROP PROTECTION ”as part of the 'BIG IDEAS IN SCIENCE' lecture series   

About the Speaker: Dr. Kumaraswamy is currently a scientist and faculty at the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune. He works in the Polymer Science and Engineering division at NCL. Dr. Kumaraswamy received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He conducted his postdoctoral research as a VW postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces. He is the recipient of several awards including being elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society and has published extensively.


In this short talk, Dr. Kumaraswamy will show how lipid molecules organize in the presence of water. Lipids are amphiphilic molecules (meaning they are comprised of two parts --one that likes water and the other that does not). Cell membranes are made up of lipids. Dr. Kumaraswamy's work attempts to understand what controls how one specific lipid- glycerol monooleate folds up around water. He will then relate these studies to how lipids can be used to change the wettability of surfaces - a result that has implications for environmentally friendly crop protection. 

Location : Aryabhatta 21, FLAME University Campus