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Shekhar C. Mande
Ph. D., FASc, FNASc
Staff Scientist - VI, CDFD, Hyderabad
Adjunct, University of Hyderabad


Mailing Address Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Tuljaiguda(Opp MJ Market) Nampally Hyderabad- 500001, AP, India
Phone: +91-(040) 24749401/402
Fax: +91-(040) 24749403
Email:
shekhar<at>cdfd.org.in
shekhar_mande<at>hotmail.com
Date of Birth

5-April-1962

Nationality

Indian

Educational Qualifications
S.No. Degree University Year Subjects
1. B. Sc. Nagpur University, Nagpur 1982 Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
2. M. Sc. Nagpur University, Nagpur 1984 Physics
(X-rays & Electronics)
3. Ph. D. Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore
1991 Molecular Biophysics
Title of the Thesis: “Structural Studies on Peanut Lectin
Supervisor: Prof. M. Vijayan
 
Employment:

Dec 1991- Nov 1992 Post-doctoral fellow Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
In the laboratory of Prof. Wim G. J. Hol
Nov 1992- Dec 1995 Senior fellow University of Washington, Seattle, USA
In the laboratory of Prof. Wim G. J. Hol
Dec 1995- Sept 2001 Scientist-C Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh
Sept 2001- present Staff Scientist Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad

Awards, Fellowships and Memberships of Professional Bodies:

  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Biological Sciences, 2005 (Photographs of the ceremony)
  • Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellow, since 2003
  • Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India, Elected 2003
  • Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, Elected 2003
  • B M Birla Young Scientist Award, 1999
  • Currently Ongoing Projects:

  • Structure and Function studies on M. tuberculosis heat shock proteins
    Funded by the Wellcome Trust, UK
  • Reconstructing Cellular Netowrks: Two-component regulatory systems. In collaboration with Jaya Tyagi, AIIMS; S. Krishnaswamy, MKU; Aditya Mittal, IIT-Delhi and Sarika Mehra, IIT-Mumbai
    Funded by the Department of Biotechnology
  • Preparing blue-print for macromolecular crystallography beamline at Indus-II synchrotron source
    Funded by the Department of Science and Technology
  • Recent Conferences Attended/ Seminars Delivered/ Visits to Other Labs:

  • Indo-German conference on Bioinformatics, Koln, Germany, 2006 (with Dietmar Schomburg)
  • Visit to the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 2006 (with Jan Drenth)
  • Guha Research Conference, Leh, 2006 (with Muniyappa, Rangarajan & G Padmanaban)
  • CSHL-Wellcome Trust conference on Genome Informatics, Cambridge, UK, 2006 (with Sharmila)
  • Visit to the University of Cambridge, UK, 2006 (with Ben Luisi)
  • Europathogenomics workshop on Structural Genomics, Wuerzburg, Germany, 2006 (in front of Roentgen house with Akash Ranjan)
  • Nature Asia-Pacific symposium to celebrate 20 years of Nature’s presence in Asia-Pacific, 2007 (with Sanjeev Galande, Anjali Shiras, V Sriram, Yamuna Krishnan…..)
  • Gordon Research Conference on Proteins, New Hampshire, USA, 2007 (on hike with Raghavan Varadarajan)
  • Contact Information
    Email : shekhar<at>cdfd.org.in
    Phone : +91-40-24749401/402
    Fax : +91-40-24749403
    Last updated on : 07th May, 2009.
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