Ankan Chakraborty
PhD Student
Kusuma School of Biological Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
Email: ankan.chakraborty15@gmail.com
Education:
B.Sc. in Agriculture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal, India.
M.Sc. (Agri.) in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India.
Research Area:
Centrosome Dynamics and Cell Cycle Control in Neurodegeneration
Research Internship Program:
Selected by The French Indian Campus Scholarship Program, February 2024-May 2024.
Scientific Supervisor: Dr. Dominique Weil
Host laboratory: Weil’s Lab, IBPS, Sorbonne University, 75252 Paris, France.
Awards/Fellowships/Grants:
1. Institutional Teaching/Research Assistantship, IIT Delhi
2. Research Excellence Travel Award, IIT Delhi for presenting a poster at “Cell Bio 2025”, an ASCB|EMBO meeting at Philadelphia, PA, USA (2025)
3. EMBO Travel Grant for presenting a poster at “Cell Bio 2025”, an ASCB|EMBO meeting at Philadelphia, PA, USA (2025)
4. 2nd Runner-up (Poster Presentation), BioWorld 2024 organized by KSBS IIT Delhi at Uttarakhand, India (2024)
5. Research Scholar Travel Award, IIT Delhi for presenting a poster at “RNA Granules 2023” organized by the Biochemical Society at Surrey, UK (2023)
6. D. P. Burma Best Poster Award at 92nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Chemists (India) at BITS Pilani, Goa, India (2023)
7. Qualified for DBT-JRF (Category I), Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (2021)
8. Qualified GATE (Life Sciences), All India Rank 14 (2020)
9. Awarded ICAR-PG Scholarship, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (2018-2020)
10. Qualified ICAR AIEEA-PG (Plant Biotechnology), All India Rank 1 (2018)
Conferences/Workshop:
1. "From centrosomes to the midbody: dynamic relocalization of Optineurin during cell division" (Poster) at CellBio 2025, an ASCB|EMBO meeting at Philadelphia, PA, USA
2. "Optineurin localization at key cytosolic positions suggests its significant role in cell division" (Oral) at BioWorld 2024 organized by KSBS IIT Delhi at Uttarakhand, India
3. "Optineurin-dependent liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) and its correlation with proteinopathies" (Poster) at SBC Annual Conference 2023 at Goa, India
4. "Correlation of RNA-binding and phase separation properties of Optineurin in proteinopathies" (Poster) at RNA Granules 2023 organized by the Biochemical Society at Surrey, UK
5. SERB Karyashala workshop & hands-on training program for “Advanced Training in Biological Atomic Force Microscope” at IIT Gandhinagar, India (2022)
Publications
1. Chakraborty, A.,Benassy, M. N., Weil, D., & Kundu, B. (2025). Optineurin Localization at the Centrosome, Spindle, and Midbody Implies Its Role in Cell Division. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken, N.J.), Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/cm.70015
2. Singh, K., Vashishtha, S., Chakraborty, A., Kumar, A., Thakur, S., & Kundu, B. (2024). The Salmonella typhi Cell Division Activator Protein StCAP Impacts Pathogenesis by Influencing Critical Molecular Events. ACS Infectious Diseases, 10(6), 1990–2001. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.4c00001
3. Singh, J., Quadir, N., Vashishtha, S., Chakraborty, A., Alam, A., Kundu, B., Ahmad, U., Sundar, D., Ehtesham, N. Z., & Hasnain, S. E. (2023). Polypharmacological repurposing approach identifies approved drugs as potential inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The Biochemical Journal, 480(14), 1079–1096. https://doi.org/10.1042/BCJ20230143
4. Dixit, A., Chakraborty, A., Nath, J. R., Chowdhury, P. K., & Kundu, B. (2023). Ocular protein optineurin shows reversibility from unfolded states and exhibits chaperone-like activity. RSC Advances, 13(10), 6827–6837. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ra07931c
Previous Research Experience:
M.Sc. Dissertation: “Functional validation of PM19 promoter from Wheat” under the supervision of Dr. Monika Dalal, Principal Scientist, ICAR-NIPB, New Delhi.
