Prof. SWAGATA DASGUPTA

Swagata Dasgupta did her B.Sc. (Hons) from Presidency College, Calcutta, M.Sc. from IIT Kanpur and Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. Her research interests in Protein Chemistry encompass protein–protein and protein-small molecule interactions and protein structure analyses. She has contributed to teaching and research at IIT Kharagpur for the past 20 years, guided 21 students to date with 130+ publications. The main focus of research includes the study of polyphenols and their interactions with biomacromolecules. Studies with polyphenols show their ability to act as inhibitors of ribonucleases and the major green tea polyphenol EGCG prevents tryptophan oxidation of cataractous ocular lens human γ-crystallin. Recent work on the fibrillation of proteins has been initiated to study amyloid fibrils, the hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases.
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Soumya De

Soumya De did his BSc. (Hons) and MSc from IIT Kharagpur. He completed his PhD from Cornell University, USA followed by postdoctoral research at University of British Columbia, Canada. He joined IIT Kharagpur as Assistant Professor in 2015. His research interest include biophysics, biochemistry, enzymology, signal transduction and regulation of gene expression, and protein engineering. The overarching research goal of Dr. Soumya De's laboratory is to decipher the structural and dynamic principles that govern protein functions and their regulation. This is achieved using solution NMR spectroscopy and other biophysical methods that characterize the structure and dynamics of proteins.
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