Debashree Chakraborty

Designation:

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK:

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Professional Experience:

3 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

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) "Effect of high density water, low density water on protein stability and biological functions" Core Research Grant, DST, 2020-2023.
2) "Proteins at the interface of Liquids" Early research career award, DST, 2016-2019.

Supervision of Ph.D

4 (on going)

Significant Publications

1) Pushyaraga P Venugopal, B. K. Das and D. Chakraborty*, “Effect of hydrophobic and hydrogen bonding interactions on the potency of -alanine analogs of G-protein coupled glucagon receptor inhibitors.”, Proteins: Structure, Functions, Bioinformatics, 88, 327-344, 2020.
2) Dilip H. N. and D. Chakraborty*, "Hydrophilicity of the hydrophobic group: Effect of cosolvents and ions", J. Mol. Liq., 280, 389-398, 2019.
3) S. Biswas, D. Chakraborty* and B. S. Mallik* , "Interstitial voids and resultant density of liquid water: A first-principles molecular dynamics study", ACS Omega, 3, 2010, 2018.
4) D. Chakraborty, A. Taly, and F. Sterpone, "Stay Wet, Stay Stable? How Internal Water Helps Stability of Thermophilic Proteins", J. Phys. Chem. B, 119, 12760–12770, 2015.
5) D. Chakraborty and G. N. Patey, "How Crystals Nucleate and Grow in Aqueous NaCl Solution", J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 4, 573, 2013.
6) D. Chakraborty and A. Chandra, "Hydrogen bonded structure and dynamics of liquid-vapor interface of water-ammonia mixture: An ab initio molecular dynamics study", J. Chem. Phys., 135, 114510, 2011.

Achievements

(1) Early Scientist research Award from DST, 2016.
(2) CNRS post-doctorate fellow in Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique from June 2013-April 2015
(3) Post-doctorate fellowship in University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada