Education | Experience
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
2017-2018
Teaching Assistant
BB101 - Physical Biology. (for undergraduate students)
University of Hyderabad, India
August 2015 - May 2016
Masters Research Project
Probing and characterizing the molecular interaction of Graphene Oxide-Protein Conjugates. Investigation of the major non-covalent interactions that drive the stability of peptide/protein-GO complexes modulation external conditions like pH, temperature and studying the stability of secondary structure of protein. Functionality assay was also done to understand the potential of the conjugate as a graphene-based nano-biomaterials suitable for drug delivery.
May 2015 - July 2015
Khorana Fellowship for Summer Research (IUSSTF)
Recapitulation of experimental structure of Chlorophyll bound WSCP Protein designing so[ware ProtCAD. This involved defining amino acid residues and chlorophyll for the protein molecule, defining Vander Waals atom types, connectivity between atoms, calculating atomic charges on each atom and adding degrees of freedom. Optimal alignments produced by conformational sampling were compared to the experimental crystal structure of WSCP bound Chlorophyll.
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
May 2014 - July 2014
Students-Undergraduate Research Graduate Excellence (SURGE)
Engineering a Conditional expression Construct and Express PTG Protein in Neuronal Cells. By molecular cloning, a construct was made with an inducible promoter (under the Ecdyson Repressible System) along with the PTG (Protein Targeting to Glycogen) gene inserted in the MCS of a vector. Techniques used involved ligation, restriction digestion, PCR, and immunoblotting. The construct thus made could be used in cells to synthesize glycogen and thus analyze its role in cell-cycle
