Curriculum Vitae

Samudrala Gourinath, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Life Sciences
JNU, New Delhi-67
India
email: sgn9@hotmail.com
sgourinath@mail.jnu.ac.in

Title: Structural Biologist/Biophysist.

Academic Qualifications

YEAR	DEGREE	FIELD OF STUDY	INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
1999	Ph.D.	Biophysics - Crystallography	All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
1995	M.Sc.	BioTechnology	University of Pune, Pune, India
1992	B.Sc. (Tech)	Chemical Technology	Loyola Academy, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Positions Held

2015 - Present, Professor, School of life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India.

2016 - Guest Faculty, Departament of Biotechnology, South Asian University, New Delhi-110067

2012 - 2015, Associate Professor, School of life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India.

2003 - 2012. Assistant Professor, School of life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India.

2005, 2006 and 2007 summers. Visiting research fellow, Rosensteil Basic Medical Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA.

2000 - 2003. Postdoctoral Fellow, Rosensteil Basic Medical Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA.

1999 - 2000. Senior Demonstrator, Department of Biophysics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. India.

1998 - 1999. Senior Research Fellow, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

1996 - 1998. Junior Research Fellow, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.


Academic and Professional Honors

- Visitors Award(Presidents Award)-2016 for Molecular Parasitology group at JNU.

- Recipient of "National Bioscience Award for Career Development 2013" awarded by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.

- Indo-US science and Technology Forum fellowship for 2010, Visited Prof. Niko Gregorif, HHMI, Brandeis University

- Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award for 2006 (IYBA-2006) by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt of India.

- Awarded DAAD (German academic exchange service) fellowship for short term, 1998.

- 1996. Qualified for the JRF/NET Fellowship awarded by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India.

- 1996. Qualified the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (percentile score 95.43).

- 1993-1995. Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India fellowship for MSc Biotechnology 1993-1995.

- 1987-1989. Awarded the Telugu Vignana Parithoshikam (Andhra Pradesh state merit scholarship) by State Govt. Andhra Pradesh.

- 1987. Awarded the National merit scholarship by Govt. of India.

- "Crystal structure of the bifunctional inhibitor of trypsin and α-amylase from Ragi seeds at 2.9 Å resolution" is selected for invited oral presentation at National symposium on Radiation and Molecular Biophysics, January 21-24, 1998. BARC & TIFR, Mumbai.

- "The structure solution from NMR model and refinement of α-amylase / trypsin bifunctional inhibitor". at discussion meeting on Macromolecular crystallography Feb 6-7, 1998. at MBU, IISc. Banglore.

- "New Structures of Myosin reveal Essential Features of Mechanical Transduction of muscle proteins" at 35 ^th National Seminar on Crystallography on 22 ^nd-24 ^th Feb 2006 at National Physical Laboratory, New-Delhi, INDIA.

- Crystal structure of native O-acetyl-serine sulfhydrylase from Entamoeba histolytica and its complex with cysteine: Structural evidence for cysteine binding and lack of interactions with Serine acetyl transferas. At 2nd International conference on Trends in cellular and molecular biology (5-7 ^th Jan 2008), School of Life Sciences, New Delhi.

- Invited for DBT sponsored workshop on Insilico Molecular Modeling and Drug Design at Biotechnology department, AMU, 2008. Invited for XVI Seminar on Amibiasis/EMBO workshop, Feb, 2009 at Guanajuato, MEXICO.

- Invited for a lecture on workshop on "Exploring proteins with Bioinformatics" at Bioinformatics center, AMU 2009 from 15 ^th and 16 ^th Jan.

Invited as a speaker at National workshop on advanced analytical instrumentation and applications-2009 from 5 ^th to 7 ^th Jan. AIF, JNU.

- Invited speaker at Short Term Course on Bioinformatics held at IIT, Delhi on March 12 2009.

- "Unusual arrangement of EF hand motifs in Calcium binding protein-1 of Entameoba histolytica and its functional implications" at 4 ^th International symposium on recent trends in macromolecular structure and function on Jan 21 ^st-23 ^rd Jan 2010 at University of Madras, Guiny campus, Chennai.

- "Is Calcium binding protein-1 of Entamoeba histolytica a dual regulator?" At Indo-US symposium on "Modern Trends in Macromolecular Structires" Feb 21-24 ^th 2011 held IIT Bombay.

- Invited for a lecture at UGC-sponsored National symposium on "Biomolecular Drug targets" held during March 7-9 ^th 2011 and presented talks entitled "Structural, functional studies and inhibitor screening of crucial cysteine biosynthetic pathway enzymes from E. histolytica" at Interdisciplinary biotechnology unit, AMU, Aligarh.

- Invited for a lecture for "EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Course & Symposium" on "Amoebiasis: Exploring the Biology and the Pathogenesis of Entamoeba" held during 4-7 ^th, March 2012 at Khajuraho, India; entitled "Investigations into the loss of regulation in cysteine biosynthetic pathway of E. histolytica".

- Invited for a lecture for "Current Trends in Structural Biology (CTSB)- 2012", held during 2 ^nd April 2012, Department of Biophysics, AIIMS; entitled "Continuous production of Cysteine in E. histolytica due to loss of regulation in cysteine biosynthetic pathway".

- Invited to 41 ^st annual meeting of Indian Crystallographic association meeting on National seminar on Crystallography, 2012, held during Oct 8 ^th to 10 ^th at Triple helix auditorium, Central leather research institute, Chennai entitled "Crystal structure and mode of helicase binding of the C-terminal domain of primase from Helicobactor pylori".

- Invited to 81 ^st annual meeting of Society of Biological Chemists (India)- 2012, held during Nov 8 to 11 ^th at Science City auditorium complex, Kolkata entitled "Structural Investigations into Regulation of Cysteine Biosynthesis".

- Invited to National symposium on trends in Biomolecular Interaction 2013, held during March 13-14 at Interdisciplinary biotechnology unit, AMU, Aligarh. Entitled "Structural and biochemical studies reveal the reasons for loss of feed-back regulation and Cysteine synthase complex formation in parasite E. hisolytica".

- Invited to DST-INSPIRE Science Camp held at Rattan Institute of Technology and management during 23rd to 27th April 2013. Delivered lecture on "Molecules of Life".

- Invited for a lecture for "National symposium on recent advances in free radical biology and biochemistry" held during 6th March 2014 at Department of Biochemistry, AMU, Aligarh.

- Invited for a lecture for "6th International symposium on recent trends in Macromolecular structure and Function" held during 22nd-24th Jan 2014 at University of Madras, India; entitled "Structural and Functional studies of crucial Ser and Cys biosynthetic pathway enzymes from E. histolytica".

- Invited for a lecture for "Parasitology-2014: A conference on recent trends in molecular parasitology" held during 27-29th March 2014 at Jawaharlal Nehru University; entitled "Structural and Functional Characterization of Calcium sensor proteins involved in phagocytosis".

- Invited lecture at SLS40 held during Feb 13-15, 2014 at convention center, JNU: entitled " Structural and functional Studies of crucial amino acid biosynthetic pathway enzymes from E. histolytica "

- Invited for a lecture at "Indo-US International conference / workshop on Recent advances in structural biology and Drug discovery" held during Oct 9-11, 2014 at IIT-Roorkee; entitled " EhCoactosin stabilizes actin filaments in the protist parasite Entamoeba histolytica: Structural and functional studies".

- Invited for a lecture at 43rd National Seminar in Crystallography held during 12th-14th Nov, 2014 at CDRI-Lucknow; entitled "Structural and functional characterization of Sulfate activation pathway enzymes: PAP phosphatases from E. histolytica."

- Invited for a lecture at Bioworld 2014: Protein structure and function held during 12th-14th December 2014 at IIT-Delhi; entitled "Coactosin stabilizes actin filaments in the parasite Entamoeba histolytica: Structural and functional revelations".

- Invited for a lecture at NXCM-2014: International symposium-cum-workshop Frontiers of structural biology, New advances in X-ray diffraction and cryo-electron microscopy held during 15th to 17th December, 2014 organised by RCB at INSA; entitled "Structure based functional prediction of Calcium Binding Protein-5 from Entamoeba histolytica and its involvement in initiation of phagocytosis of human erythrocytes".

- Invited for a lecture at Inspire science Camp-2014 held during 16th to 20th Dec, 2014 organised at Pt. L. R. College of Technology, Faridabad; entitled " Visualization of Biological macro-molecules".

- Invited for a lecture at 1st International conference on Translational research from basic science to clinical application, held during 5-7th Feb 2015, organized at KIIT University Bhubaneshwar; entitled "Structural and functional studies, inhibitor development against cysteine biosynthetic pathway enzymes of E. histolytica".

- Invited for a lecture at Workshop on structural biology: An introduction to Protein crystallography" held during 15th to 18th April 2015, organized by NIMHANS, Banglore; entitled " Challenges in cytoskeletal protein crystallography".

- Invited for a lecture at "Indo-French seminar on Application of Structural Biology in Translational Research & Structure- Guided- Drug- Design" held during 19th to 20th Nov 2015, organized by Tata memorial center, Advances Center for treatment, research and education in Cancer; lecture titled "Structural and functional studies, inhibitor development against cysteine biosynthetic pathway enzymes of E. histolytica".

- Invited for a lecture at "44th National Seminar on Crystallography" held during 10th-13th July 2016, organized by NCCS, IISER Pune, NCL and Univ of Pune; lecture titled "Understanding the phagocytic cup formation in Entamoeba histolytica: Structural and functional studies of Individual components".

- Invited for a lecture at "Symposium on Pathogens and host response" held during 10th to 12th August 2016, Organised by NII, New Delhi; lecture titled "Understanding the phagocytic cup formation in Entamoeba histolytica: Structural and functional studies of Myosin IB".

- Invited for a lecture at "2nd National conference on Current Trends in Life Science" held during 20-21st February, 2017, Organised by Central University of South Bihar, Patna; entitled "Structural investigation of cysteine biosynthetic pathway enzymes of E. histolytica : Investigation into loss of cysteine synthase complex formation".

- Invited for a lecture at "Molecular insights in Genetics and biotechnology- Emerging trends and future prospects" held during 27-28th Feb 2017, Organised by Osmania University, Hyderabad.

- Invited for a lecture at "UGC & DBT sponsored National symposium cum bioinformatics workshop on Current trends in proteomics and bioinformatics" held during March 16-17th 2017, Organised by Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University.

- Invited for a lecture at "Annual Symposium of Indian Biophysical Society 2017, held during 23-25 March in IISER, Mohali.

- Delivered a lecture at Department of Department of International health, Biomedical chemistry, graduate school of Medicine, Tokyo University, 19th Oct, 2017.

- Invited for a lecture at workshop on "Protein structure and drug discovery" organised by Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, during August 27 to September 5, 2017)

- Invited for a lecture at SBC, during 16-19 Nov 2017 organised by JNU, New Delhi.

- Invited for a lecture at TIFR, Mumbai on 25th of January 2018.

- Invited for a lecture at 11th symposium, 'Frontiers in Biomedical Research'. Theme: Challenges In Human Health: Prevention, Diagnosis and Cure organized by ACBR, DU during Februar19th to 21st, 2018.

- Invited for a lecture at Workshop on "Emerging Trends in Target Identification and Drug Design" (31st Jan 2018) organised by Biotechnology department, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT).

- Delivered a lecture at School of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa on 8th Feb 2018.