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OBJECTIVE
To take up challenging research work and to become specialist in Structural Biology and Membrane Biology
AREA OF INTEREST
Structural Biology, Membrane Biology and Computerized drug designing
RESEARCH PROJECT HANDLED
I did my summer project titled "Insilico Modeling and Docking studies of Voltage -gated Potassium channel Kv1.3 with ShK toxin from Sea anemone-A novel therapy for Autoimmune Diseases" in Indian Institute of Sciences(IISC),Bangalore, India under the guidance of Prof.S.Ramakumar, Chairman, Bioinformatics Center during the period of 10th May 2005 to 4th July 2005.
I did my project titled "Site-Directed Cysteine Accessibility Studies on Potassium Ion Channel, KvAP" in the Institute of Membrane and System Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK under the guidance of Dr.Asipu Sivaprasadarao, Faculty of Biology during the period of Jan 2006 to May 2006.
Experience in working in the project entited" Raising antibody against Mouse Sex Pheromone Binding Protein in Rabbit : An innovative preliminary approach to curtail pregnancy with Dr.S.Kannan, Head Department of Microbiology, ANJAC ,Sivakasi during April 2006 to July 2006.
I worked in the project entitled" Molecular Gating Mechanism of Shaker Potassium Channel Kv1.1" in National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS),Bangalore, India under the guidance of Prof. M.K.Mathew, Faculty in Biophysics group from August 2006- to March 2007.
RESEARCH PROJECT HANDLING
At present I am working as aa Project Associate in Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and working in the project"Role of Gap junction in Ischemic heart disease" from May 2007 to date
PAPER PUBLICATION
"Raising antibody against Mouse Sex Pheromone Binding Protein in Rabbit : An innovative preliminary approach to curtail pregnancy" Taneja T K, Vinod Kumar S, Krishnan M, Kannan S*, Journal of Biosciences, Malaysian Academy of Sciences (ACCEPTED IN DEC 2006)
HANDS ON EXPERIENCE IN
Plasmid DNA & Genomics DNA, SDS PAGE &AGE, Electrophoresis Techniques, PCR method, Mutagenesis , Molecular Cloning and Expression studies , Hybridisation ,Western blotting , Antibody generation and use
.SKILLS IN PROGRAMMING
Operating Systems : DOS, Windows 9x, 2000,
Languages : C, C++, Visual Basic.Perl
Web Technology : HTML, Dreamviewer, Photoshop, Flash
SKILLS IN BIOINFORMATICS SOFTWARE &TOOLS
Molecular Visualisation Tools: Rasmol, Cn3d, VMD, SwissPdbviewer,Veiwerlite
Docking Software : Hex, GRAMM ,AutoDOCK, DOCK ,BioDock
Alignment Tools : Blast ,Fasta, Clustal package, Multalign
Packages : INSIGHTII ,GCG
SEMINAR/WORKSHOP ATTENDED
Presented a Paper on" Human Genome Project "in the National Level Seminar Human Genome Project on 2nd January 2004 conducted by Karpagam Arts & Science College, Coimbatore, India.
Attended three day training programme on "Genomic Projects and Bioinformatics" on 21-23 March 2005 conducted by center for Plant and Molecular Biology, Tamil Nadu Agriculture University, Tamil Nadu, India.
Attended National Level Seminar on "Biotechnology in Future "on 2-4 October 2003 conducted by Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College, Sivakasi, India
Attended National level Symposium, on 5th October 2004, conducted by Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India.