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Chemistry Division

Dr. Surajit Ghosh

Ramanujan Fellow

  • Postdoctoral Fellow (July 2008-December 2010), European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
  • Doctoral Fellow (July 2004-June 2008), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India 
  • Scientist (January 2001- July 2004) Syngene International Limited (BIOCON GROUP), Bangalore, India

Contact - sgiicb@gmail.com / sghosh@iicb.res.in

Contact Phone No. +91-33-24995872

Award:

  • Travel grant by DBT/ Wellcome Trust for attending “EMBO Global Exchange & the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance meeting” at Barcelona (2010)
  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2010-2012)
  • Travel grant by BASF for attending in International Symposium “BASF Conference on Nanomaterials” in Singapore (2007)
  • Biocon Tribute award for outstanding contribution (A Biocon India Group, 2002)

Current Research Interest

Interface between chemistry and biology:

  • Self-assembly of bioinspired peptide and peptide conjugates
  • Design, synthesis and applications of peptide based anticancer drugs
  • Surface modification and patterning of novel materials for biotechnological applications
  • Microtubule motor driven transport of molecules, materials in nanobiotechnology

Grant: Approved by DST, India from 2013 onwards for three years.

Names of the group members including regular staff with designation and research fellows:

Position Available: PhD and Postdoctoral positions are available.
CSIR/UGC NET awardees with  a background in Organic Chemistry/ Biochemistry/Molecular Biology/ Biotechnology are welcome to apply.
Fellow/RA Staff Others
  1. Dr. Goutam Mondal, Post Doc. Fellow
  2. Mr. Atanu Biswas, JRF
  3. Mr. Batakrishna Jana, JRF
  4. Mr. Abhijit Saha, JRF
  5. Mr. Prashant Kurkute, JRF
  

Our recent work “In vitro reconstitution of a cellular like environment using liposome for amyloid beta peptide aggregation and its propagation”in Front Cover Page.

   

List of Publications:

2013

  1. Batakrishna Jana, Goutam Mondal, Atanu Biswas, IndraniChakraborty, AbhijitSaha, PrashantKurkute and Surajit Ghosh.*Dual functionalised graphene oxide serves as a carrier for delivering oligo-histidine and biotin tagged biomolecules into cell.Macromol.Biosci. 2013, Just Accepted.
  2. Jagannath Jana, Rajiv Kumar Kar, Anirban Ghosh, Atanu Biswas, Surajit Ghosh, AnirbanBhunia* and Subhrangsu Chatterjee.*Human Cathelicidin Peptide LL37 Binds Telomeric G-Quadruplex.Mol. Biosyst. 2013, 9, 1833-1836.
  3. IndraniChakraborty♯, AbhijitSaha♯ and Surajit Ghosh.*Fabrication of Biotinfunctionalised SiO2 EM grid for studying biotin tagged biomolecules. IJC-A Special issue: ‘Complex Chemical Systems’2013, Just Accepted.
  4. Batakrishna Jana, Goutam Mondal, Atanu Biswas, IndraniChakraborty and Surajit Ghosh.* Functionalised TiO2 nanoparticles deliver oligo-histidine andavidin tagged biomolecules simultaneously into the cell.RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 8215-8219.
  5. Abhijit Saha, Goutam Mondal, Atanu Biswas, Indrani Chakraborty, Batakrishna Jana and Surajit Ghosh.*In vitro reconstitution of a cellular like environment using liposome for amyloid beta peptide aggregation and its propagation.Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 6119-6121. (Accepted in Front Cover)
  6. Abhijit Saha,# Indrani Chakraborty,# Christian Kraft, Shashi Bhushan* and Surajit Ghosh.* Microtubule nucleation from a functionalised SiO2 EM grid. RSC Adv.,2013, 3, 7688-7691
  7. Atanu Biswas, Abhijit Saha, Batakrishna Jana, Prashant Kurkute, Goutam Mondal and Surajit Ghosh.*Facile generation of biotin micropatterned surface by photo destruction serves as a novel platform for microtubule organisation and DNA hybridisation. ChemBioChem, 2013, DOI:10.1002/cbic.201300027.
  8. Surajit Ghosh, Lihi Adler-Abramovich, Ehud Gazit,* Sandeep Verma.* Spacer driven morphological twist in Phe-Phe dipeptide conjugates.Tetrahedron, 2013, 69 2004-2009.
  9. Surajit Ghosh, Christian Hentrich, and Thomas Surrey.* Micropattern-Controlled Local Microtubule Nucleation, Transport, and Mesoscale Organization.ACS Chem. Biol., 2013,DOI: 10.1021/cb300583p.

2012

  1. Vadapalli Chandrasekhar,* Loganathan Nagarajan, Sakiat Hossain, Kandasamy Gopal, Surajit Ghosh, Sandeep Verma. Multicomponent Assembly of Anionic and Neutral Decanuclear Copper(II) Phosphonate Cages.Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 5605-5616.

2010

  1. Sudipta Mondal, Surajit Ghosh, Sandeep Verma.*Bottom-up Synthesis of Ferrocenylated Soft Spherical Structures: Ultrastructural Characterization and Electroresponsitivity.Tet. Lett. 2010, 51, 856-859.

2009

  1. Maniraj Bhagawati,#Surajit Ghosh,# Annett Reichel, Klaus Froehner, Thomas Surrey, Jacob Piehler.*Organization of motor proteins into functional micropatterns fabricated by a photo-induced Fenton reaction.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  2009, 48, 9188-9191. Accepted as Hot Paper.

2008

  1. Vadapalli Chandrasekhar,* Loganathan Nagarajan, Rodolphe Clérac, Surajit Ghosh, Tapas Senapati, and Sandeep Verma. Barrel- and Crown-Shaped Dodecanuclear Copper(II) Cages Built from Phosphonate, Pyrazole, and Hydroxide Ligands.Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47 (12), 5347-5354.
  2. Surajit Ghosh, Sandeep Verma.*Solvent mediated morphological transformation of peptide-based soft structures.Tetrahedron 2008, 64, 1250-1256.
  3. Vadapalli Chandrasekhar,* Ramachandran Azhakar, Tapas Senapati, P. Thilagar, Surajit Ghosh, Sandeep Verma,  Ramamoorthy Boomishankar, Alexander Steiner and Paul Kögerler. Synthesis, structure, magnetism and nuclease activity of tetranuclear copper(II) phosphonates containing ancillary 2,2 -bipyridine or 1,10-phenanthroline ligands. Dalton Transaction, 2008, 1150-1160 (Most accessed paper in the Month of February).
  4. Vadapalli Chandrasekhar,* Loganathan Nagarajan, Rodolphe Clérac, Surajit Ghosh, Sandeep Verma. A Distorted Cubic Tetranuclear Copper(II) Phosphonate Cage with a Double-Four-Ring-Type Core.Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 1067-1073.
  5. Surajit Ghosh, Arindam Mukherjee, Peter. J. Sadler.* Sandeep Verma.*Periodic Iron Nanomineralization in Human Serum Transferrin Fibrils.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 2217-2221. (Accepted as Very Important Paper, Inside Cover Page, Highlighted by: Nature India; C & E News; Angew. Chem., EurekAlert).
  6. Surajit Ghosh, Sandeep Verma.*Templated growth of hybrid structures at peptide-peptide interface.Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 1415-1419.
  7. Surajit Ghosh, Prabhpreet Singh, Sandeep Verma.*Morphological Consequences of Metal ion-Peptide Vesicle Interaction.Tetrahedron, 2008, 64, 1250-1256.

2007

  1. Sandeep Verma,* K. B. Joshi, Surajit Ghosh. Peptide-based soft materials as potential drug delivery vehicles. Med. Chem. 2007, 3, 605-611.
  2. Surajit Ghosh, SukhmaniKaur Singh, Sandeep Verma.*Self-assembly and potassium ion triggered disruption of peptide-based soft structures. Chem. Commun. 2007,22, 2296-2298.
  3. Surajit Ghosh, Sandeep Verma.*Phased Fiber Growth in a Peptide Conjugate: Aggregation and Disaggregation Studies.J. Phys. Chem. B, 2007, 111, 3750-3757.
  4. Surajit Ghosh, Sandeep Verma.*Metalated peptide fibers derived from a natural metal-binding peptide motif.Tet. Lett. 2007, 48, 2189-2192.
  5. Surajit Ghosh, Meital Reches, Ehud Gazit,* Sandeep Verma.*Bioinspired design of nanocages by self-assembling triskelion peptide elements.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 2002-2004 (Accepted as Inside Cover Page).

 

*Corresponding author; #: Equal contribution

 
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