R. Sankararamakrishnan

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R. Sankararamakrishnan
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Melmangalam, Theni Dt., Tamil Nadu, India
Nationality Indian
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Known forComputational studies on membrane protein function
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Ramasubbu Sankararamakrishnan is an Indian computational biologist, bioinformatician and a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is known for his computational studies on membrane protein function. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2008.

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Biography

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R. Sankararamakrishnan, who completed his early college education at the Madurai Kamaraj University in 1986, did his doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Science and after obtaining a PhD in 1992, he moved to the UK where he did his post-doctoral research in computational biology at the University of Oxford. [1] He had another stint of post-doctoral work at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and started his career in 1996 as an instructor (later assistant professor of research) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In April 2002, he returned to India to join the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) as an assistant professor and serves as a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSBE). [2] Subsequently, he founded the Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Simulation Laboratory at IITK where he hosts several research scholars. [3] He also serves as a resource person for the Centre for Mathematical Biology of the Department of Science and Technology. [4]

Legacy

Sankaramakrishnan's research is focused on mechanism of membrane protein function using computational approaches. [2] He is known to have carried out research on aquaporin genes in plants, Asx turns, molecular dynamic simulations of protein-protein interactions, GPCR peptide hormones as well as nonAUG start codons and AUG codons. [5] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles [6] [note 1] and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 98 of them. [7] Besides, he has also contributed chapters to books published by others [8] and his articles have drawn many citations. [9] [10] [11] He is the co-author of MIPModDB, a database of structure models of Major intrinsic proteins. [12] He has also delivered invited or keynote speeches at various national and international seminars. [13] [14] [15]

Sankararamakrishnan is a member of the National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology, [16] an agency funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board of the Government of India for promoting scientific research and advanced training in the discipline. [17] He is also a life member of the National Academy of Sciences, India, one of the three major Indian science academies. [18]

Awards and honors

The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2008. [19] He has also held the Joy Gill Chair Professorship for Young Faculty and the U.S.V. Chair Professorship of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur during 2007-2010 and 2011-2014 respectively. [2]

Selected bibliography

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Notes

  1. ↑ Please see Selected bibliography section

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References

  1. ↑ "BSBE Faculty - R.Sankararamakrishnan". IIT Kanpur. 11 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 Vishwas (11 January 2018). "Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)". www.iitk.ac.in. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Simulation Laboratory". home.iitk.ac.in. 11 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Resource Persons - MathBio - DST Centre for Mathematical Biology". www.math.iisc.ac.in. 11 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Current Research at BSBE" (PDF). IIT Kanpur. 11 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  6. ↑ "On Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "On ResearchGate". 9 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  8. ↑ International Biometric Society. Indian Region. Conference; R. Sankararamakrishnan (chapter author) (2006). "Pattern Searching in Protein and DNA Sequences". Statistical Advances in Biosciences and Bioinformatics. Allied Publishers. pp. 106–. ISBN   978-81-7764-968-0.{{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
  9. ↑ Claudio Toniolo; Hans Brückner (26 May 2009). Peptaibiotics. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 53–. ISBN   978-3-906390-52-9.
  10. ↑ Giacomo Messina; Saveria Santangelo (2002). GNSR 2001: State of Art and Future Development in Raman Spectroscopy and Related Techniques. IOS Press. pp. 216–. ISBN   978-1-58603-262-3.
  11. ↑ Manju Bansal; N. Srinivasan (2013). Biomolecular Forms and Functions: A Celebration of 50 Years of the Ramachandran Map. World Scientific. pp. 480–. ISBN   978-981-4449-14-4.
  12. ↑ Gupta, Anjali Bansal; Verma, Ravi Kumar; Agarwal, Vatsal; Vajpai, Manu; Bansal, Vivek; Sankararamakrishnan, Ramasubbu (1 January 2012). "MIPModDB: a central resource for the superfamily of major intrinsic proteins". Nucleic Acids Research. 40 (D1): D362–D369. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.1033.8361 . doi:10.1093/nar/gkr914. ISSN   0305-1048. PMC   3245135 . PMID   22080560.
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  17. ↑ "National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology". www.iiserpune.ac.in. 11 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  18. ↑ "The National Academy of Sciences, India - Life Members". www.nasi.org.in. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  19. ↑ "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2017.

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