SOUMYA DE LAB @ IIT KHARAGPUR

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Welcome to the structural biology lab at the School of Bioscience, IIT Kharagpur, India. We use NMR spectroscopy and other biophysical techniques to study the structural and dynamic basis of protein functions. We study both folded and disordered proteins. Our publications are listed here.

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Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

More than 70% human proteins have long disordered regions. Although they lack folded structure, these protein regions play important functional roles. We study these proteins using NMR dynamics experiments. For more details, see here.

Structure-guided Protein Engineering

Intein enzymes are called Nature's Gift to Protein Chemists due to their immense biochemical applications. We are engineering these enzymes based on their structure and dynamics, determined from NMR spectroscopy. For more details, see here.

Liquid-liquid Phase Separation

RNA-binding proteins are prone to form phase separated liquid droplets. We are studying the oligomerization and phase separation of the RNA-binding protein RBM3, which is a cold shock protein and has neuroprotective functions. For more details, see here.

Members of the lab

lab news

22 July 2022: De Lab welcomes Deeptarun Roy and Aishwarya Pardhi as new masters students.

15 July 2024: De Lab welcomes Jagadish Bar, Liana Mukherjee and Jayashish Dasgupta as new PhD students.

22 April 2024: De Lab welcomes Srijeeb Karmakar as new National Postdoctoral Fellow (NPDF).

19 Oct 2023: Congratulations to Beas Mukherjee on receiving the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF).

01 June 2023: Soumendu Boral joins the lab of Prof. Kevin Gardner at CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, USA, as a postdoctoral researcher.

11 May 2023: Congratulations Soumendu Boral for successfully defending his PhD thesis.

26 Feb 2023: Congratulations Soumendu Boral on receiving the Prof. KVR Chary Research Scholar Award at the 28th Annual Symposium of the NMR Society.

20 Jan 2023: Congratulations Bidisha Acharya for successfully defending her PhD thesis.

12 Dec 2022: Congratulations Atashi Panda for successfully defending her PhD thesis.

05 Nov 2022: Congratulations to Srijon Sen on receiving the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF).

25 July 2022: De Lab welcomes Srijon Sen, Puja Banerjee and Beas Mukherjee as new PhD students.

31 May 2022: Soumendu Boral gets selected selected for the prestigious EMBO Practical Course "Structure, Dynamics and Function of Biological Macromolecules by NMR" to be held in Biozentrum Basel, Switzerland from August 5-12, 2022. This year out of 102 applications from 27 different countries, 26 applicants have been selected. Soumendu is the only student/postdoc selected from India. 22 leading scientists from 7 different countries (USA, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Switzerland and Sweden) will train these 26 scientists.

10 May 2022: Snigdha Maiti joins the lab of Prof. Richard Kriwacki in St. Jude's Hospital USA, as a postdoctoral researcher.

01 May 2022: Aditya J Basak joins the lab of Prof. Ute Hellmich in Germany as a postdoctoral researcher.

18 Apr 2022: De Lab welcomes Tanisha Maji as a new junior research fellow.

12 Apr 2022: Congratulations Snigdha Maiti for successfully defending her PhD thesis.

08 Apr 2022: Congratulations Aditya J Basak for successfully defending his PhD thesis.

04 Apr 2022: Congratulations Soumendu Boral for winning the IUPAB Oral Presentation Award (Second Prize) at the Indian Biophysical Society 2022 conference.

09 Mar 2022: Congratulations Aditya J Basak for the best poster award in the 27th Annual Meeting of NMRS (National Magnetic Resonance Society, India) held at IIT Gandhinagar (6-9 March 2022).

28 Sep 2021: Congratulations Soumendu Boral for receiving the Young Researcher Award 2021 by the Institute of Scholars (InSc) for his research publication in Biochemistry (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00828).

30 Jul 2021: Congratulations Soumendu Boral for winning the Graduate Student Poster Award in the 35th Anniversary Symposium of the Protein Society.

18 May 2021: Congratulations Soumendu Boral for winning the Protein Society Anniversary Award in the 35th Anniversary Symposium of the Protein Society.

13 Dec 2019: Congratulations Snigdha Maiti for winning the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) workshop on Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.

15 Oct 2019: Congratulations Snigdha Maiti for winning the Travel Award for attending the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) workshop on Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.

16 Feb 2019: Congratulations Snigdha Maiti for the Best Poster Award in the 25th Annual Meeting of NMRS (National Magnetic Resonance Society, India) held at AIIMS Delhi.

webpages

IIT Kharagpur: http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/department/BS/faculty/bs-somde

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Soumya-De-3

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PWHL9gkAAAAJ

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