Debashish Sahu

Personal Information

Biographical & Contact Information

I am from Kalpakkam, India. I did my Bachelor's degree in Industrial Biotechnology at Anna University, Chennai, India. I have also worked with Dr. B. Jayaram from IIT-Delhi, India during my undergraduate. I joined the Biophysics, Structural and Computational Biology program at UTMB in 2006. I have great interest in computer programming and am an avid supporter of open source and UNIX.

Research Interests

Currently my interests are analyzing structure, kinetics and dynamics of HOXD9 homeodomain-DNA interactions using NMR spectroscopy. I am also characterizing the redox properties of HMGB1 protein.

Grants & Awards

• 2008 -- Robert A. Welch Award for Excellence in Graduate Research in Chemistry, UTMB
• 2007 -- Best Poster Award at the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology new student orientation, UTMB
• 2006 -- Summer Research Assistantship from Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT), IIT Delhi
• 2005 -- Summer Research Assistantship from Industrial Research and Development (IRD), IIT Delhi
• 2005 -- Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) fellowship from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India for summer internship at IIT Delhi .
• 2004 -- Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) Summer Research Fellowship to work on Bio-fuel.
• 2000-2002 -- The Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) fellowship by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India in High School

Selected Publications

1. Redox properties of the A–domain of the HMGB1 protein. Sahu D., Debnath, P., Takayama, Y. and Iwahara, J., FEBS Lett., 582, 29, 3973-3978, 2008 (Link)
2. Observing In-phase Single-Quantum ¹⁵N Multiplets for NH₂/NH₃⁺ Groups with Two-dimensional Heteronuclear Correlation Spectroscopy. Takayama, Y., Sahu, D. and Iwahara, J., J. Magn. Reson., 194, 2, 313-316, 2008 (Link)
3. TROSY-Based z-Exchange Spectroscopy: Application to the Determination of the Activation Energy for Intermolecular Protein Translocation between Specific Sites on Different DNA Molecules. Sahu, D., Clore, G.M., and Iwahara, J., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 43, 13232-13237, 2007 (Link)
4. Bhageerath: an energy based web enabled computer software suite for limiting the search space of tertiary structures of small globular proteins. Jayaram, B., Bhushan, K., Thukral, L., Shenoy, S.R., Narang, P., Bose, S., Agrawal, P., Sahu, D. and Pandey, V., Nucleic Acids Research, 34, 21, 6195-6204, 2006 (Link)

Curriculum Vitae

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