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Atul Kumar Johri

Atul Kumar Johri

Johri
Atul Kumar Johri
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Life Sciences
Room No
Office: 404, Lab: 409
Off. Phone
91-11-26704511
Email
ajohri@mail.jnu.ac.in akjohri14@yahoo.com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/ajohri
Qualifications

M.PhiL. (1992): Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi. 
Ph.D.  (1995): Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi.

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Microbial pathogenesis, Membrane Proteins structure, Nanotechnology for rapid detection of pathogens. Host-microbe interaction.

Experience

Feb 2014 - till date : Professor, School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, India 
Feb 2008 - Feb 2014: Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, India 
June, 2004 - Feb 2008: Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, India 
August 2011 - October 2011: Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, USA
May, 2007: Visiting Scientist, Queensland Institute of Medical research, Brisbane, Australia
March 2002 - June 2004: Research fellow in Medicine Channing laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
July 2000 - March 2002: Post Doctoral Associate, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Centre, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA. 
April 2000 - July 2000: Post Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemical Engineering University California, and Riverside, California, USA. 
May 1997 - April 2000: Senior Research Associate, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Delhi, India.
March1997 - May 1997: UNESCO-Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 
Dec1995 - February 1997: Senior Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, India

Awards & Honours

1. Junior Research Fellowship, Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi-Delhi, India. (1993).
2. Senior Research Fellowship, Council of Scientific and Industrial research Govt. of India (1994).
3. UNESCO-Young Scientist Award in Biotechnology, Paris, France (1997) to visit Department of Chemical engineering , University of Waterloo, Canada.
4. Senior Research Associate, Chemistry Dept. University of Delhi, Delhi, India (1997-2000).
5. Post Doctoral Fellowship at Chemical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA (2000).
6. Post Doctoral Associate at Bioengineering Centre, Tufts University, Medford MA, USA (2000-2002).
7. Research Fellowship in Medicine at Channing Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (2002-2004).
8. Travel fellowship from DBT, Govt of India to attend the conference on infectious disease held at Lisbon (2006).
9. Department of Biotechnology, DBT, Govt of India, Biotechnology overseas fellowship (2009-10). 
10. American Society for Microbiology Research Professorship to work in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Stroud University of California, San Francisco, USA (2011).
11. Guest of Honor, Kirorimal College (KMC), Delhi University, Delhi (2012)

International Collaboration/Consultancy

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Patents (if any)

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A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.