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Najmul Khan
Ph.D (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering
Research Interest
Structural Biology, Bioinformatics, Structure-based drug design.
Specialization
Office
Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering,
Laboratory No. 2
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
Kanpur. - 208016.
Uttar Pradesh, India
Education
Ph.D. - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Thesis Title:Pending
Thesis Supervisor:Pending
Pre-doctoral Course - Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar.
M.Sc. - University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
B.Sc. - Osmania University, Hyderabad.
Teaching Area
Structural Biology and Protein Engineering
Selected Publications
Nikhil Jain, Neha Vithani, Abu Rafay and Balaji Prakash$. Identification and characterization of a hitherto unknown nucleotide binding domain and an intricate inter-domain regulation in HflX, a ribosome binding GTPase. Nucleic Acids Research (2013) 41, 9557-69.
Pravin Kumar Ankush Jagtap, Vijay Soni, Neha Vithani, Gagan Deep Jhingan, Vaibhav Singh Bais, Vinay Kumar Nandicoori$, and Balaji Prakash$. Substrate bound crystal structures reveal features unique to Mycobacterium tuberculosis N-acetyl-glucosamine-1-phosphate uridyltransferase and a catalytic mechanism for acetyltransfer. Journal of Biological chemistry (2012) 287, 39524-37.
Mathew Sajish, Sissy Kalayil, Sunil Kumar Verma, Vinay Kumar Nandicoori$ and Balaji Prakash$. The Significance of ExDD and RxKD Motifs Conservation in Rel Proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry (2009), 284, 9115-9123.
Mathew Sajish, Divya Tiwari, Dimple Rananaware, Vinay Kumar Nandicoori$ and Balaji Prakash$. A Charge Reversal Differentiates (p)ppGpp Synthesis by Monofunctional and Bifunctional Rel Proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry. (2007) 282, 34977-34983.
Awards & Fellowships
2013 – Elected, Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India.
2011 – Elected Member, Guha Research Conference (GRC), India.
2010 - DBT National Bioscience Award for the year 2009.
2006 - Invited participant at 2nd Indo-American Frontiers of Science Symposium in Irvine, California.
2004 - International Senior Research Fellow for Biomedical Science award by the Wellcome Trust, U.K. in 2004.