Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Associate Professor E

Crystallography & Molecular Biology Division

DAE- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

Email: tofayel.ahmed@saha.ac.in

Since Sept 2022- Associate Professor E, DAE-Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

2020-2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Plank Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Project: Structural studies on protein complexes in native membranes by cryo-electron tomography and sub-tomogram averaging

2018-2020 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Project: TRP channel structures by cryo-EM and single-particle analysis

2014-2018 PhD in Structural Biology; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Project: Cryo-EM structure of the chloroplast ribosome. https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/handle/10356/75853

Awards:

Max Planck Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2020.
National Institute of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2018.
Travel Award (100% funding) for guest talk, 9th Annual Konstanz Research School Chemical Biology Retreat, Germany, 2017.
NTU Graduate Research Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Singapore, 2014-2018.
Full scholarship in PhD program, Fall 2013, Drexel University, USA (Declined).
Full scholarship in PhD program, Fall 2013, Florida State University, USA (Declined).
IASc-INSA-NASI Summer Research Fellowship, Govt. of India, 2009.

Affiliations:

Life Member, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery Society, India.
Life member, The Indian Science Congress Association, India.
Life member, Electron Microscope Society of India.
Life member, Chemical Biology Society of India.
Director of Human Resources, 6th Executive Committee, NTU Graduate Student Council, Singapore, 2016-2017.
Reviewer: eLife, Journal of Structural Biology, Scientific Reports, STAR Protocols, PLOS ONE.