Brief Bio

Employment - Position

• Oct. 2024 - Present : Postdoctoral Fellow, CNR-IOM at SISSA, Trieste, Italy

• July, 2024 - Sept., 2024 : Researcher I, Dept. of Chemistry, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

• January, 2020 - June, 2024 : Research Specialist, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

• September, 2018 - April 2024 : Doctoral Student, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

• September, 2017 – May, 2018 : Research Fellow, National Taiwan University, Taiwan & Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

• March 2017 - May, 2017 : Junior Research Associate, WBSU, Kolkata, India

• July, 2016 - December 2016 : Project Assistant , IISER, Kolkata, India

Research Interest :

• MD simulations

• Structure Biology (cryoEM)

• Pharmacoinformatics

• Computational Biology

Notable Achievements :

• 13th congress of European Biophysical Societies Association, Vienna, Austria, 24 - 28 July 2021. (EBSA Bursary award).

• Brno PhD Talent 2018 Award and scholarship to support PhD study at CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic for the period 2019 – 2022.

• CEITEC PhD School Scholarship to support PhD study at CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic for the period 2018 – 2022.

• TIGP Scholarship, Academia Sinica, Sept. 2017 – May 2018.

• Junior Research Associate (JRA) scholarship, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of West Bengal, March 2017 - May, 2017

• Institute Scholarship for Project Assistant, IISER, Kolkata, August 2016 - November, 2016

• Best Oral Presentation award in 1st International Conference on Human Implication of Biotechnology, 12th - 14th Feb, 2016, CUSB,Patna, India.

• Merit Scholarship for Pursuing Master’s Degree Studies Sponsored by CUSB, July 2014 - December, 2014.

• Rank 1 in CUBET-14, All India Entrance exam for M.Sc. Bioinformatics.

Skills :

• MD Simulation of protein, intrinsically disordered protein (IDP), DNA, lipid, CNT, small molecules and experience with water, ionic liquid, molecular crowders, lipid bilayer environment.

Enhanced Sampling (Metadynamics, SMD, Umbrella Sampling, REMD)

• Force Field experiences:

All Atom: CHARMM, AMBER, GROMOS, OPLS

Coarse Grained: MARTINI, SIRAH

• Prediction of NMR, CD, BioSAXS parameters from MD simulation trajectory.

• Protein modelling (homology, Alphafoldology), Molecular Docking, Virtual Screening.

• Bioinformatics analysis: genomic sequence analysis

• Cryo-Electron Image Analysis, bioSAXS data analysis

Programming language Proficiency:

• Shell programming (Expert level)

• Perl (Moderate level)

• R (Moderate level)

• C (Moderate level)

• Python (Moderate level)

Software Experiences:

• MD Simulation: GROMACS, NAMD, AMBER, DESMOND

• Protein Modelling: AlphaFold, OmegaFold, ESMFold, ColabFold, Modeller, Pulchra

• Visualizer: PyMol, VMD, Chimera, Discovery Studio

• Molecular Docking: AutoDock, Vina, PyRx, Discovery Studio, HADDOCK, PatchDock, iDock, PLANT

• Drug Designing: swissADME, LigBuilder, Ligandscout, PyPLIF-HIPPOS, CORAL

• CryoEM image analysis: Relion, EMAN, Scipion, cryoSPARC

• NMR Data analysis: SPARTA+, ShiftX2

• BioSAXS: ATSAS, Pepsi-SAXS, DENSS

• Graph: Xmgrace, matplotlib.pyplot, Gnuplot, R, Origin

Association Membership :

1. Individual life member of Asian Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB), Korea

2. Individual life member of International Society for Environmental Information Sciences (ISEIS), Canada

3. Life member of Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), India

4. Student member of International Biometric Society, USA

5. Individual member of The European Biotechnology Network, Belgium

6. Life Member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Hong Kong