Scientist & DBT-Ramalingaswami Faculty Fellow
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
Profile
The major interest of my laboratory is the engineering of transmembrane pores for applications in biotechnology and medicine. In particular, we focus on synthetic peptides-derived alpha-helical pores and biological transmembrane pores and explore their biophysical and electrical characterization using single-channel and single-molecule electrical sensing studies. Our research has important implications for developing stochastic sensors for biomolecules and chemical moieties and therapeutic development.
Academic Positions
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Senior Research Associate
Department of Chemistry, Chemical Biology, University of Oxford, UK
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Post-doctoral Research Associate
Jacobs University Bremen, Germany and University of Cambridge, UK
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Guest Lecturer
Lecture course in Biophysical chemistry, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
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Junior Research Fellow
Molecular Biophysics Laboratory, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
Education
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Ph.D Biochemical Engineering 2010
Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
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M.Sc Industrial Biotechnology 2005
Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India
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B.Sc Biotechnology 2003
Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India
Awards
- 2020Featured as Up-and-Coming Scientist in the Journal of Membrane Biology
- 2020Best teacher award at RGCB selected by students
- 2020A complete patent application (Synthetic pores) filed from RGCB
- 2019Merck Young Scientist award, Winner of Biological Science
- 2018DST SERB -Early Career Research Award
- 2017DBT - Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA), from Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India
- 2016Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship by the Department of Biotechnology, India
- 2012Senior Research Associate Fellowship by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), University of Oxford, UK
- 2010Post-doctoral Fellowship by the European Union Nanoscience E+ Initiative, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany and University of Cambridge, UK
- 2007Marie Curie Ph.D Fellowship, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
- JRF Fellowship from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), funded by Department of Biotechnology
- 2005Gold medal in M.Sc Industrial Biotechnology, Bharathiar University, India
- 2003Silver medal in B.Sc, Biotechnology, Bharathiar University, India
Patents
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Patent titled "Synthetic Transmembrane Peptide Pores for the Single-Molecule Sensing".
Indian Patent. Patent Application No. 201941014383
Memberships
The Biophysical Society
European Biophysical Societies Association
