Prof. Anirban Bhunia
Google Scholar ID: 5yoZXzcAAAAJ;
ORCID: 0000-0002-8752-2842
EDUCATION
2001 – 2005: University of Lübeck, Germany
Ph.D. in Chemistry (Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Peters)
Thesis title: Binding of Carbohydrate Ligands to Siglecs, Sialoadhesin and Myelin-associated Glycoprotein (MAG): Studied by NMR Experiments and Computational Modeling.
1997 – 1999: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India
M.Sc. in Biotechnology
Thesis title: Enzyme Mediated Waste Water Treatment.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Since November 2020: Bose Institute, Kolkata, india
Professor at the Department of Chemical Sciences
Research Focus: Structural insight into the dynamic interface of membrane lipid-peptide protein interactions using biomolecular NMR
2015 - 2020: Bose Institute, Kolkata, India
Associate Professor at the Department of Biophysics
Research Focus: Structural insight into the dynamic interface of membrane lipid-peptide protein interactions using biomolecular NMR
2014 - 2015: University of Michigan, USA
Visiting Professor at Biophysics and Department of Chemistry
Research Focus: Solution- and Solid-state NMR spectroscopy of Amyloid proteins.
2011 - 2015: Bose Institute, Kolkata, India
Assistant Professor at the Department of Biophysics
Research Focus: Structural insight into the dynamic interface of membrane lipid-peptide protein interactions using biomolecular NMR
2006 - 2010: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Postdoctoral fellow at the School of Biological Science
Research Focus: Structure-function correlation of antimicrobial peptides and integrin proteins using NMR spectroscopy
2005 - 2006: National University of Singapore, Singapore
Postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Biological Science
Research Focus: Screening of small molecule drugs against BCLxL and MCL-1.
1999 - 2000: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Project Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering
Research Focus: Enzyme Mediated Waste water treatment
APPROVED RESEARCH PROJECTS
2024 - VAJRA faculty scheme with Prof Indranil Biswas from University of Kansas Medical Center, USA for Project entitled, “Developing novel peptide antibiotics to eradicate biofilms formed by ESKAPE pathogens ” from ANRF/DST with sanction No. VJR/2022/000012 dated 16.07.2024 (as Indian lead collaborator).
2024 - 2027 - Project entitled, “Rational Design and Structure function analysis of antimicrobial peptides tailored to treat fungal ocular infections” from Velux Stiftung, Switzerland with Project No. 1834 (as Co-PI).
2022 – 2027 - Project entitled, “Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatcs and expanding its datacenter” from DBT with sanction No. BT/PR4017/BTIS/137/45/2022 dated 23.03.2022 (as Co-PI).
2019 – 2023 - Project entitled, “Tailor Made Peptidomimetics Deisgning against Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (hIAPP) Aggregation: A Therapeutic Approach Associated with Type-2 Diabetes” from DBT with sanction No. BT/PR29978/MED/30/2037/2018 dated 09.10.2019.
2018 – 2022 - Project entitled, “Intracellular Dynamics of Small Molecules During Novel AMP-mediated Resilience in Planta: A Multidisciplinary Approach” from SERB with sanction No. EMR/2017/003457 dated 12.07.2018.
2018 – 2022 - Project entitled, “Developing an optimized toolkit for inducible genome editing and regulation of gene expression in tomato plants: implications in adjusting complex traits via synthetic biology approach” from DBT with sanction No. BT/PR26210/GET/119/121/2017 dated 16.07.2018 (co-PI).
2017 – 2021 - Project entitled, “Structural Insight and Dynamical Properties of α-Synuclein Fibrillation in the Context of Mitochondrial Membrane or Biological Membranes: Pathological Role in Synaptic Transmission, Aggregation Property and Cellular Toxicity” from CSIR with sanction No. 02(0292)/17/EMR-II dated 05.05.2017.
2017 – 2020 - Project entitled, “Antimicrobial peptides against crop disease” from Indo-Sweden (DST-VR) project with sanction No. DST/INT/SWD/VR/P-02/2016 dated 20.06.2017.
2012 – 2016 - Project entitled, “Design, synthesis and mechanistic insights of novel antimicrobial peptides (AMP) using high resolution NMR spectroscopy: Role of outer membrane permeability and DNA binding” from DST with sanction No. SR/FT/LS-100/2012 dated 18.12.2012.
2012 – 2016 - Project entitled, “Biophysical and structural aspects of oncogenic G-quadruplex bound to drugs: Screening, high resolution NMR and low resolution spectroscopy” from DBT-RGYI with sanction No. BT/PR6627/GBD/27/440/2012 (co-PI).
2011 – 2014 - Project entitled, “STRUCTURAL STUDY OF de novo DESIGNED NOVEL ANTIFREEZE PEPTIDES FROM Leucosporidium antarcticum ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN-1 (AFP-1)” from CSIR with sanction No. 02(0005)/11/EMR-II dated 15.12.2011.
2011- Infrastructure development project for Bose Institute,
Kolkata entitled, “State-of-art 600 MHz FT-NMR with
Cryoprobe facility at Bose Institute, Kolkata” with sanction
No BT/PR3106/INF/22/138/2011 (co-PI).
PRIZES & AWARDS
1. NMRS-Prof. S. Subramanian's 60th Birthday lecture award for exceptional contribution to the field of Magnetic Resonance and its Applications.
2. Visiting Professor at the Biophysics and Departments of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA.
3. One manuscript was recommended in F1000Prime as being of special significance in its field by F1000 Faculty Member.
4. Life member of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Society (NMRS), India.
5. Life member of Indian Peptide Society (IPS), India.
6. Joint-convener of the workshop “Biomaterials Characterization and Performance Evaluation”, which was held on 20th December 2019 in the Central Research Facility, IIT Kharagpur.
7. Convener of "NMRS Silver Jubilee Short Term NMR School" to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the NMRS society.
8. DST Young Scientist FAST Track grant, Govt. of India.