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Dr Shalini Awasthi
Research Scientist ll
Eli Lilly and Company
Email : 0522shalini@gmail.com ashalini@outerbanks.umaryland.edu
I am a computational chemist, mainly interested in development of state-of-the-art molecular dynamics simulation methods. I developed enhanced sampling techniques and used the methods to solve computationally challenging problems like drug binding/unbinding, catalytic mechanism in biochemical, organic and inorganic reactions, conformational sampling in proteins and RNAs.
My vision is to employ various sampling methods to understand real-world systems, encompassing biological, chemical and materials sciences. I am also interested in computer programing and machine learning.
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Education and Appointment
Education and Appointment
Dec 2021 - Present
Research Scientist ll
Eli Lilly and Company
Sept 2021 - Nov 2021
Senior Scientist l
Schrodinger/ D. E. Shaw
Hyderabad, India
India Manager: Dr Madhavi Sastri
USA Manager: Dr Sayan Mondal
-Computational chemist in drug discovery group
-Study the antibacterial activity of nanomaterials at the atomistic level.
-Involved in free energy calculations using free energy perturbation methods
-Force field parametrization for drug like molecules
-LiveDesign
Aug 2018 - Feb 2021
Research Fellow
Warwick Manugacturing Group
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Line Manager: Dr Dhammika Widanalage
Project Head: Dr James Marco
PROJECT:
-Study chemical reactions taking place during charging, discharging, and aging of batteries at atomistic level and data analysis in collaboration with industrial partners like Williams Advanced Engineering, Delta Motorsport, Williamblythe, CPI, AGM batteries.
-Use of Machine Learning to predict the redox potential of additives used in electrolytes.
-Study the antibacterial activity of nanomaterials at the atomistic level.
April 2017 - Jan 2018
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
Advisor: Prof. Alexander D. MacKerell, Jr.
PROJECT:
Studying the effect of Mg ion on folding of RNA using the combination of enhanced sampling techniques, force-field development, and structure based drug designing using SILCS.
May 2015 Visiting Postgrdaduate Student
Statistical and Biological Physics,
School of Advanced Studies (SISSA), Tieste, Italy
Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Laio
PROJECT:
Developing bias exchange metadynamics in the framework of QM/MM to study biochemical reactions.
Jan 2012 - May 2017 Ph.D., Computational Chemistry
Department of Chemistry,
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Advisor: Prof. Nisanth N Nair
PROJECT:
Developing enhanced sampling techniques and use those techniques for studying various biochemical reactions in QM/MM framework, configurational sampling of proteins at MM level, and various organic /inorganic reactions at QM level.
Thesis Title: Efficient Exploration of High Dimensional Free Energy Landscapes: Novel Methods and Applications
July 2011 - Dec 2011 Research Assistant
Department of Chemistry,
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Advisor: Prof. Nisanth N Nair
PROJECT:
Studying catalytic reactions of Sulphite Oxidase enzyme using metadynamics at atomistic level in QM/MM framework.
Study "On-Water" Reactions.
July 2009 - July 2011 M.Sc., Chemistry
University of Lucknow, India
Project Advisor : Prof. Anil Mishra
PROJECT:
Cardio-Vascular Diseases: Prevention and Cure
July 2006 - July 2009 B.Sc., Chemistry-Biology
University of Lucknow, India
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