DEPARTMENT.FACULTY
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.QUALIFICATION
B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Sc., PGDLAMM, GATE, Ph.D., PDF (CSIR), PDF (ICMR)
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.DESIGNATION
Assistant Professor (Contractual)
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.THRUST_AREA
Protein Folding, Misfolding, Aggregation, Amyloids and Inhibition of Aggregation.
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.ADDRESS
D2, Second Floor, New Naz Residency, Sir Syed Nagar Aligarh 202002.
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.MOBILE
9760042683
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.EMAIL
furquan1989@gmail.com
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.TIME_TABLE
Time Table for M.Sc. (Biochemistry) 2nd semester, Session 2021-2022.Time Table for B.Sc. (Biochemistry) Second Semester 2020-2021Combined Schedule for B.Sc. & M.Sc. Biochemistry (Life Sciences)Time Table for MSc iind semester session 2021-2022
Having done Ph.D. from the Department of Biochemistry Faculty of Life Scienes, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, Dr Furkan was engaged as Post Docotoral Research Associate funded by CSIR at Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit of the same University. Further he was awarded another Post Doctoral Fellowship by ICMR. After that he has joined as Assistant Professor (Contractual) in Biochemistry Section of Women's college AMU Aligarh.
During his Doctoral and Post Doctoral programme Dr Furkan was interested to know the basic mechanism behind protein misfolding and its prevention with the help of certain molecules like Polyphenols, Antibiotics, Flavonoids and nanoparticles etc. He was also awarded Maulana Azad National Fellowship for Minority Students by UGC and he has qualified GATE (Life Scienes). So far he has published 20 International Publications and 1 book chapter.
- Comparative study of biogenically synthesized silver and gold nanoparticles of Acacia auriculiformis leaves and their efficacy against Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease Download PDFThe present article reports the biogenic synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) from the extract of Acacia auriculiformis (AA) leaves using biogenic approach. Several spectral and morphological studies namely UV-vis, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), tunneling electron microscopy along with selected area electron diffraction (TEM/SAED), scanning electron microscopy along with energy dispersive X-ray (SEM-EDX) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were carried out which ascertains the successful formation of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) starting from Silver nitrate and Chloroauric acid respectively. On the basis of TEM/SAED and SEM-EDX, AgNPs were found to be more regular with smaller particle size and hence they were selected for biological studies. Thermal techniques like thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential thermal analysis (DTA) were also performed to study the comparative thermal stability of AgNPs and AuNPs where AgNPs were found to be thermally more stable. Several biophysical techniques including Thioflavin T assay, ANS assay, Rayleigh scattering method and turbidity assay were also performed. These assays confirm that AgNPs possess better inhibitory property. Moreover, antioxidant activity of AgNPs was also carried out using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and AgNPs were found to be good antioxidant.