Rakesh Mishra

Contact Information:
2054 BST -3
3501 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15260

Email: ram92@pitt.edu

Bachelor’s in Biotechnology, Anna University, India

Research:
Molecular Dynamics simulation of the conformational states of the Abeta(1-42) peptide in different chemical environments; Experimental studies on aggregation properties of the protein Barstar; Protein folding studies on Monellin.

Investigation of the aggregation properties of poly-glutamine repeats peptides.

Publications:
• Presentation on the “Applications of self assembling peptides as scaffolds for Nanowires” at the International Students Seminar on Nanotechnology at the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan in Sep 2006.

• Presentation on “Alternative protein folding: Investigating the role of different chemical environments on the aggregation of the protein Barstar” at the International Conference in Chemical Biology organized at Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta, India in March 2007.


• “Theoretical Understanding of the voltage gated Ion Channels “published in the Proceedings of the national symposium on Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology of Indian Institute of technology , Delhi in March 2006.