Coming together is a beginning,
staying together is progress,
and working together is success.
- Henry Ford -
Group Leader:
Dr. Jayati Sengupta
"Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible."
--Albert Einstein
With a chemistry background, I was trained as a Ph.D. student at NEHU, Shillong, under the guidance of a brilliant theoretical chemist Dr. Richard Duncan who just joined the department then. I obtained additional training as a DBT postdoctoral fellow at Bose Institute, Kolkata, on molecular modelling and structural analysis of peptides using NMR for a short period of time under the supervision of a genius scientist Dr. Gautam Basu. At that time my goals were unclear beyond knowing that I was keenly interested in interdisciplinary research to solve problems related to biological macromolecules. I was fortunate to get a postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Professor Joachim Frank (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2017) at Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York, USA, where I spent about eight years. During that period I was motivated by the idea that deciphering structural aspects of multi-component complexes help to interpret the functional mechanisms of those complexes and thus allows us to understand challenging problems in biology.
As an independent investigator, I have assembled a team pursuing a research program that combines structural biology with functional studies of higher-order biological complexes to understand their roles in health and disease.
Current TEAM
CSIR-Senior Research Associate (Scientists' Pool Scheme) Bose Institute Email ID: rakag15@gmail.com "Have faith in yourself -- all power is in you" --Swami Vivekananda
DBT-Research Associate Email ID: banipathak09@gmail.com
UGC-Senior Research Fellow Email ID: sandip6bot@gmail.com
CSIR-Senior Research Fellow Email ID: 19sayanbhakta89@gmail.com "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." -Albert Einstein
CSIR-Senior Research Fellow Email ID: shirin.akbar09@gmail.com "Modern science has been a voyage in the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. many passengers would rather have stayed home" - Pale Blue Dot (by Dr. Carl Sagan)
CSIR-Senior Research Fellow Email ID: priyabd791@gmail.com "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" - Sir Isaac Newton
CSIR-Senior Research Fellow Email ID: rajanyab10@gmail.com "Your best teacher is your last mistake" - APJ. Abdul Kalam
UGC-Senior Research Fellow Email ID: xsayany@gmail.com " You can't cross the sea, merely by standing and staring at the water" - R. N. Tagore
DST-Senior Research Fellow Email ID: sukanya.mozumder@gmail.com "I am among those who think that science has great beauty" - Marie Curie
DST-Senior Research Fellow Email ID: aritrabej1988@gmail.com "If we want to understand health and disease, we need to understand life at the molecular level and to know how all the molecular components work together like clockwork" - Klaus Schulten
CSIR-Junior Research Fellow Email ID: skrishnamoorthi23@gmail.com "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing" -Albert Einstein
DBT-Junior Research Fellow Email ID: aneekbanerjee2012@gmail.com "No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess" - Isaac Newton
Trainees
ALUMNI
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