About me

I am Satyajit Beura, Prime Minister's Research Fellow from the Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, working under Prof. Amit Kumar Das and Prof. Amit Ghosh in Computational Biology. I joined the Ph.D. program at IIT Kharagpur in September 2020 as an institute fellow, which was later changed to the PMRF. 

Achievements & Scholarships:

• Prime Minister research fellow, IIT, Kharagpur (2021)

• Institute fellow from IIT, Kharagpur (2020)

• Secured 1st position in Ph.D. Coursework, Department of Biotechnology, IIT, Kharagpur (2021)

• Gold medalist in Master of Technology (Molecular Engineering and Advanced Chemical Analysis)

• Teaching assistantship from NIT, Kurukshetra (2018)

• Qualified GATE Biotechnology 2018

• Medhabruti scholarship-2015-17

• Student of the year 2016, GIET, Gunupur

• Qualified BEC (Cambridge English) 2015

Qualifications:

• Completed PhD coursework in Bioscience and Biotechnology, IIT Kharagpur 2020-21 (CGPA-9.05)

• M.Tech. in Molecular Engineering and Advanced Chemical Analysis, NIT Kurukshetra 2018-20 (CGPA-9.9335)

• B.Tech. in Biotechnology, GIET Gunupur 2013-17 (CGPA-8.33)

Research experience:

• (PhD. work -on going) Genome-scale metabolic modelling of Indian type-II diabetic patients gut microbiota (2020-)

• (M.tech dissertation work) Identification of Potential Inhibitors against Human COX-2 and SARS CoV-2 using Computational Modeling and Molecular Dynamics Simulations. (2019-2020)

• (B.tech dissertation work) Isolation of low density polyethylene degrading microbes from soil & water. (2016-2017)

Teaching experience:

• Demonstration of Computational Biology tools and techniques at the Department of Zoology, Model Degree College, Nabarangpur, Odisha (2024)

• Teaching assistant for the NPTEL course Metabolic Engineering (Spring 2023, 24 & 25)

• Teaching assistant for the class Application of Machine Learning in Biological Systems (Autumn 2022, 23 & 24)

• Teaching assistant for the class Energy Systems Modeling (Spring 2023, 24 & 25)

Job Experience/Training Undertaken:

• Program Coordinator at Omics International, Hyderabad

• Tissue culture project at Global Biotech, Bhubaneswar (Under MSME)

• Medical textiles and tissue Engineering, NIT, Jalandhar (Under MHRD)

• Microbiology, soft drinks production, quality control and Wastewater treatment project at SMV, JAGATPUR (PEPSICO)

Software handling:

• GROMACS (Molecular Dynamics simulation)

• NAMD (Molecular Dynamics simulation)

• Gaussian 16 (DFT)

• Schrödinger Software (Molecular docking, Pharmacophore modeling, 3D QSAR, CADD)

Computer language known:

• C

• C++

• Python

• R

• Matlab