Areas of Research

• Structure-activity relationships of peptides/protein
• Significance of structural variants to biological processes using NGS analysis

Contributions to Teaching

1.Organizing Committee member of Five-Day Training Program in Advanced Techniques in Lifescience Research and Diagnostics Organized by Department of Biotechnology and Microbiology, Kannur University in association with KSCSTE.

2.Organizing convenor of Dr K Surekha Memorial Oration 2023 held on 11th August 2023 at Kannur University.

3.Organizing Committee member of National Science Day-2023 held on 01 st March 2023 at Kannur University

4.Organizing Committee member of National Seminar on Dr Janaki Ammal Memorial Lecture 2022 jointly organized by the department of Biotechnology and Microbiology & Department of Molecular Biology in Association with IQAC- Kannur University held on 29 th November 2022 at Kannur University

1. Sunilkumar Puthenpurackal Narayananan, Divya Gopalakrishnan Nair, Daniel Schaal, Marisa Aguiar, Sabine Wenzel, Werner Kremer, Stephan Schwarzinger and Hans Robert Kalbitzer (2016); Structural transitions in full-length human prion protein detected by xenon as probe and spin labelling of the N-terminal domain,Nature Scientific Reports 2016, Jun 24;6:28419. doi: 10.1038/srep28419
2. Divya G. Nair, P N Sunilkumar and C Sadasivan; Interactions of Some Commonly Used Drugs with Human α- Thrombin, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics2015, 33(5):1008-15.
3. Amith Abraham, Sunilkumar Puthenpurackal Narayanan, Shaji Philip, Divya Gopalakrishnan Nair and Jayachandran Kochupurackal; Molecular modeling and docking studies of novel α-1, 4-amylase from an endophytic Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Frontiers in Life Science 2013, 7:3-4, 140-147.
4. Amith Abraham, Sunilkumar Puthenpurackal Narayanan, Shaji Philip, Divya Gopalakrishnan Nair, Aparna Chandrasekharan and Jayachandran Kochupurackal.In silico characterization of a novel β-1,3-glucanase gene from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens—a bacterial endophyteof Hevea brasiliensis antagonistic to Phytophthora meadii, Journal of Molecular Modeling 2013, 19(3):999-1007
5. P. N. Sunilkumar, Divya G. Nair, C. Sadasivan and M. Haridas; Disruption mechanism in the helix of SPF peptide by interchanging Glu5 and Lys10 residues:Inference from molecular dynamics study, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics2009, 26(4), 491- 496.
6. Divya G. Nair, P N Sunilkumar and C Sadasivan; Modeling of Factor XIII
7. Activation Peptide (28-41) V34L Mutant Bound to Thrombin, Journal of
8. Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 2008, 26(3), 387-394
9. Anakha R, Arya Selvaraj, Seno Jose, Divya Gopalakrishnan Nair* and
10. Sunilkumar Puthenpurackal Narayanan*; Self-assembly of single amino acids and materials rich in a particular amino acid (Review article communicated to Current Applied Polymer Science)
11. Divya G. Nair, P N Sunilkumar and C Sadasivan; Anti-Inflammatory Drugs,Piroxicam and Meloxicam Can Bind to Human α-Thrombin (Communicated).

Book Chapters

• Divya G Nair, Hans-Robert Kalbitzer, Sunilkumar Puthenpurackal Narayanan:(2024). Multifaceted Molecular Targets of Anti-Inflammatory Agents from Ayurvedic Plants. In: Haridas, M., Abdulhameed, S., Francis, D., Kumar, S.S.(eds) Drugs from Nature: Targets, Assay Systems and Leads. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9183-9_9
• Divya Gopalakrishnan Nair and Sunilkumar Puthenpurackal Narayanan; Self-assembly and Self-organization at the Nanoscale. In: Polymer Science, Nanomaterials and Beyond. Fernando Gomes (ed). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. (Book will release in July 2024)