Debashree Chakraborty

Designation:

Associate Professor

Date of Joining at NITK:

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Professional Experience:

3 Years as Associate Professor at NIT K
7 years 5 months as Assistant Professor at NIT K
ORCID iD : 0000-0002-0142-7941
Scopus Author ID: 56900567900
Web of science ResearcherID: E-4190-2016

Contact Details

E-mail:

debashree[at]nitk.edu.in

Faculty (author) Identifiers

ORCID iD:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0142-7941

GOOGLE SCHOLAR ID:

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=H8tv_FwAAAAJ&hl=en

Academic Background

Ph. D (IIT Kanpur) 2011
M.Sc (B.H.U) 2004
B. Sc (University of Burdwan) 2002

Areas of Interest

Theoretical Chemistry and Biophysics

Significant Projects

1) "Multiscale Modelling of Membrane Active pH-Dependent Delivery Peptides" Women excellence Award Grant, DST, 2022-2025.
2) "Effect of high density water, low density water on protein stability and biological functions" Core Research Grant, DST, 2020-2023.
3) "Proteins at the interface of Liquids" Early research career award, DST, 2016-2019.

Supervision of Ph.D

4 completed, 2 on going.

Significant Publications

1. Mathath, A. V.; Chakraborty, D. Effect of Neutral Crowders on Alpha-Synuclein Aggregation Kinetics Using Scaled SOP-IDP Model. Chem. Phys. Impact. 2026, 13, 101176.
2. Mathath, A. V.; Chakraborty, D. A new reaction coordinate to study the translocation pathway of cell-penetrating peptides across lipid bilayers: The cases of transportan-10 and penetratin. J. Chem. Phys. 2025, 163, 244104.
3. Mathath, A. V.; Chakraborty, D. Effect of peptide hydrophilicity on membrane curvature and permeation. J. Chem. Phys. 2024, 161, 164105.
4. Mathath, A. V.; Das, B. K.; Chakraborty, D. Designing reaction coordinate for ion-induced pore-assisted mechanism of halide ions permeation through lipid bilayer by umbrella sampling. J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2023, 63 (24), 7778–7790.
5. Das, B. K.; Singh, O.; Chakraborty, D. Exploring the Barriers in the Aggregation of a Hexa-decameric Human Prion Peptide through the Markov State Model. ACS Chem. Neurosci. 2023, 14 (19), 3622–3645.
6. Das, B. K.; Chakraborty, D. Epitope-Based Potential Vaccine Candidate for Humoral and Cell-Mediated Immunity to Combat Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Pandemic. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 9920.

Achievements

(1) CRSI Bronze Medal 2023.
(2) SERB Women Excellence Award 2022.
(3) Associate of Indian Academy of Sciences (2020-2023).
(4) Early Career Research (ECR) Award from DST, 2016.
(5) CNRS post-doctorate fellow in Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique from June 2013-April 2015
(6) Post-doctorate fellowship in University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

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