Vineeta Kaushik, PhD
PhD in Biophysics from the University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India
Postdoctoral Researcher
Proteins Involved in the Visual Cycle
Description
Vineeta Kaushik obtained her PhD in Biophysics from the University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India in 2020. During her doctoral studies she has experienced in biophysical and biochemical characterization of archaeal protein along with specialized in bioinformatics approach. She joined the Integrated Structural Biology lab at ICTER in March 2021 as a Postdoc fellow to work on the structure and functional elucidation of various proteins involved in the visual cycle.
Publication list
- „Old Target with New Vision: In Search of New Therapeutics for Diabetic Retinopathy by Selective Modulation of Aldose Reductase”. Vineeta Kaushik, Saurav Karmakar and Humberto Fernandes (2026). Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/diabetology7030042 (opens in new tab)
- „CryoEM structure and small-angle X-ray scattering analyses of porcine retinol-binding protein 3”. Kaushik V, Gessa L, Kumar N, Matyáš Pinkas, Mariusz Czarnocki-Cieciura, Krzysztof Palczewski, Jiří Nováče, Fernandes H (2025). Open Biology 10.1098/rsob.240180 (opens in new tab)
- „Two-photon excitation fluorescence in ophthalmology: safety and improved imaging for functional diagnostics.”. Kaushik V, Dabrowski L, Gessa L, Kumar N, Fernandes H, (2024). Frontiers in Medicine 10.3389/fmed.2023.1293640 (opens in new tab)
- „Towards a New Biomarker for Diabetic Retinopathy: Exploring RBP3 Structure and Retinoids Binding for Functional Imaging of Eyes In Vivo”. Vineeta Kaushik, Luca Gessa, Nelam Kumar, Humberto Fernandes (2023). International Journal of Molecular Sciences 10.3390/ijms24054408 (opens in new tab)
- „Characterization of Cyclophilin from Thaumarchaeota Nitrosopumilus maritimus: Implications on the Diversity of Chaperone-like Activity in the Archaeal Domain.”. Kaushik, Vineeta and Manisha Goel (2021). ACS omega 7 10.1021/acsomega.1c03216 (opens in new tab)
Research projects
Research groups
Integrated Structural Biology
Research aims to elucidate the mechanisms of vision, particularly proteins of the phototransduction pathway and the visual cycle, at an atomic and molecular level.
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