Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Structural Biochemistry Lab
Post Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Venuka Durani
Current Affiliation: DST-INSPIRE Faculty, Macromolecular Crystallography Section, HP&SRPD, BARC stationed at Protein Crystallography Beamline (BL21) Indus 2 Synchrotron, RRCAT, Indore
Dr. Jessy John
Current Affiliation: Faculty in the Department of Biophysics, University of Mumbai, India
Dr. Padmani Sandhu
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Dr. Preeti Pandey
Dr. Sumita Das
Current Affiliation: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Research Area: Development of Nanomaterial-based platform for Pancreatic Cancer Biomarker Detection
Dr. Aparna Vilas Dongre
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor- Microbiology, Mithibai College, Vile Parle West, Mumbai
PhD Students
Dr. Ajay Singh Tanwar
Current Affiliation: Post Doctoral Fellow, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA
Research Area: The project is related to the calcium activated potassium channel (SK Channel). I am trying to study the structural aspect of SK channel-Calmodulin complex and their gating mechanism.
Dr. Aruna Bitra
Current Affiliation: Senior Scientist at Pfizer Inc., La Jolla, California, USA
Dr. Anwesha Biswas
Current Affiliation: She is currently an oil painter based in Chicago. She is a member of the Oil Painters of America (OPA) association and has her paintings in various private collections in the USA and England.
Dr. Hussain Bhukya
Current Affiliation: Post Doctoral Research, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Research Area: Molecular mechanism of bioactive natural product synthesis by mega-enzymes. This aim is approached by employing a combination of X-ray crystallography and single particle cryo-EM.
Dr. Shamayeeta Ray
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, USA
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Research Area: Her work pertains to transport proteins including membrane-bound channels and secondary transporters, primarily focussing on the molecular mechanisms of ligand binding and substrate selectivity for a transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channel, TRPA1.
Dr. Vandana Gaded
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Davis, USA
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Research Area: Her research involves the study of RNA editing adenosine deaminase enzymes using techniques from protein biochemistry, enzymology and X-ray crystallography.
Dr. Sukritee Bhaskar
Current Affiliation: Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Dr. Ruchika Bhujbalrao
Current Affiliation: Post Doctoral Fellow, RNA Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, USA
Research Area:
Structural and functional studies of RNA degrading machines in bacteria and humans
Understanding complex gene-environment interactions in inflammatory bowel diseases
Dr. Nandini Sharma
Current Affiliation: Post Doctoral Associate, The Hormel Institute of Medical Research, University of Minnesota, Austin, USA
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Research Area: Structural and biochemical mechanism of Purine Metabolism
Dr. Jayanti Singh
Current Affiliation: Post Doctoral Associate, Imperial College, London
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Dr. Juhi Singh
Current Affiliation: Post Doctoral Fellow, Washington University, St. Louis
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Research Area: Mechanism of Ribosomal fidelity
Dr. Subhankar Sahu
Current Affiliation: Post Doctoral Fellow, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France
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Research Area: Aptasensors for medical and bio-analytical relevance.
Dr. Rohita Roy
Current Affiliation: Post Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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Research Area: Design of diagnostic biosensors for detection and treatment of diseases.
Project Students
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Ankita Rane
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Akansha Manghrani
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Harshada Malvi
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Priyanka Dhakane
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Pranay Joshi
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Sreelaja Sasi
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Sini Porathoor
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Sneha Joseph
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Anjum Shaikh
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Essak Khan
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Areetha D'sousa
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Danish Khan
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Suraj Sahoo
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Mayank Boob
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Rahul
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Deepanshu
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Vasudha Iyer
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Charu Khera
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Payal Arora
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Shaifali Saroha
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Ajit Yadav
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Priyanda Giri
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Arunima Bhattacharya
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Sushant Kumar Pal
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Soumyashree Ghosh
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Vanshika Agarwal
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Priyanka Swami
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Pushkar Sane
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Akshay Sawant
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Mayuresh Chari
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