Skills
Awards and Honors
- Who’s who among students in American Universities and Colleges (Randall-Reilly, 2011)
- Finn Wold Travel Award (Protein Society, 2010)
- Curtis W. Lambert Scholarship (University of Texas Medical Branch, 2009)
- Robert A. Welch Award for Excellence in Graduate Research in Chemistry (University of Texas Medical Branch 2008)
- Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) fellowship (Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2005)
- Summer Research Fellowship Programme (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, 2004)
Professional and teaching Experience
- Guest lecture for the “Chem 476” course: Application of NMR to understand protein dynamics and function (Pennsylvania State University, 2016)
- Teaching assistant for the “Molecular Biophysics I” course (University of Texas Medical Branch, 2009)
- Research Assistantship (Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer, Delhi, 2006)
Community Services
- August 2007 – August 2009: Co-chair, International Student Organization, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
- August 2006 – August 2011: Student Representative, the Biological Chemistry Student Organization (BSCO), University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
- August 2009 – August 2010: Student Representative, the BMB Recruitment Committee, UTMB
Invited Talks
- June 2014: PSU Center for RNA Molecular Biology workshop
- May 2014: 2014 NEPA NMR / MS Conference
Publications
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Academic Journey
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Aug 2018 – present
Director, Bio-molecular NMR Research Lab
- Manage Biomolecular NMR Research facility
- Routine NMR maintenance
- Cryogenic refills of NMR spectrometers
- Train new NMR users
- Setup new/established NMR experiments
Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA)
Aug 2016 – Jul 2018
Consultant/Postdoc Researcher, Chemistry NMR Facility
- Cryogenic refills of NMR spectrometers
- Train new NMR users
- Setup new/established NMR experiments
- Routine NMR maintenance
Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA)
May 2015 – Jul 2018
Postdoctoral Associate, Molecular Biophysics(Supervisor: Prof. David Boehr)
- Implementing and developing latest methyl-detected NMR experiments for studying allosteric networks of RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp).
Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA)
Aug 2011 – May 2015
Postdoctoral Associate, Molecular Biophysics(Supervisor: Prof. Scott Showalter)
- Computational MD simulations on RNA, micro-RNA structure mapping
- NMR based protein structure determination of well folded proteins and intrinsically disordered proteins
- Develop the carbon-detect NMR experiments for quick and efficient assignments of proteins
University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, TX)
Sep 2006 – Aug 2011
Ph. D., Molecular Biophysics(Supervisor: Prof. Junji Iwahara)
- Using and developing new NMR techniques to study kinetics of processes involving DNA binding proteins
Anna University (Chennai, India)
Sep 2002 – Aug 2006
B. Tech., Industrial Biotechnology
