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:
Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation (LLPS) in the pathogenesis of Neurodegenerative Diseases.
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 awarded by IIT Delhi.
2. D.P. Burma Best Poster Award at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Chemists (India) at BITS PILANI, Goa, India, from 18th to 20th December, 2023.
3. Qualified DBT-JRF Category-I, 2021.
4. Qualified GATE in Life Sciences with All India Rank 14, 2020.
5. Awarded ICAR-PG Scholarship 2018-2020.
6. Qualified ICAR AIEEA-PG in Plant Biotechnology with All India Rank 1, 2018.
Workshop/Conferences:
1. Presented poster on “Optineurin-dependent liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) and its correlation with proteinopathies” in the Society of Biological Chemists (India) annual conference, held in Goa, India, from 18th December to 20th December 2023.
2. Presented Poster on “Correlation of RNA-binding and phase separation properties of Optineurin in proteinopathies” in an International Conference ‘RNA Granules 2023’ held in Surrey, United Kingdom (UK), organized by the Biochemical Society from 9th October to 11th October 2023.
3. Participated in SERB Karyashala workshop & hand-on training program for “Advanced Training in Biological Atomic Force Microscope” held at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar from 22nd September to 28th September 2022.
Publications:
1. 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.
2. Singh, J., Quadir, N., Vashishtha, S., Chakraborty, A., Alam, A., Kundu, B., Ahmad, U., Sundar, D., Ehtesham, N., & Hasnain, S. E. (2023). Polypharmacological repurposing approach identifies approved drugs as potential inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The Biochemical journal, BCJ20230143. Advance online publication.
3. Singh, K., Vashishtha, S., Chakraborty, A., Kumar, A., Thakur, S., Kundu, B*, The Salmonella typhi cell division activator protein StCAP impacts pathogenesis by influencing critical molecular events, ACS Infectious Diseases, 2024.
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.
