Teaching:

• A Hitchhikers Guide to the RNAverse (CHEM-90628)  - A Graduate-level course on RNA Science (Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Fall 2025)

• Intermediary Metabolism (CHEM-30342)  - Undergraduate course for Biochemistry majors (Spring 2025, 2026)

    DasGupta Lab Group Charter

    DasGupta Lab GitHub

    Useful research tools   

• IDT oligoanalyzer

• The UNAFold server

• Molarity Calculator

• Vienna RNA Package

• Rfam database of RNA families

• RScape covariation analysis

• Protein Data Bank (PDB)

• AlphaFold Protein Structure Database

• Aptagen Aptamer Database

• MEME-Suite: Nucleic acid motif discovery

• Clustal Omega

• ATDBio solid-phase oligonucleotide synthesis

    General resources

• Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments 

• NASA Astrobiology primer 2.0

• How to write a first-class paper

• How to review a scientific paper

• Early Career Funding opportunities (Johns Hopkins)

   Notre Dame resources

• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF)

• Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biochemistry Interface (CBBI) Graduate Program 

• Society of Science Fellow Postdoctoral Program

• Biophysics Instrumentation Core (BIC)