Saketh Chemuru

Contact Information:
Department of Structural Biology
3501 Fifth Avenue,
2054 BST -3
Pittsburgh PA 15260

Email: sac113@pitt.edu

PhD Candidate in Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology (MBSB), University of Pittsburgh, PA (August 2007 – present).

B.Tech. Industrial Biotechnology, Anna University, India. 2002 – 2006

Research:
My work in Dr. Wetzel’s lab involves studying structural biology of protein aggregation diseases and the mechanism of fibril formation. My work mainly focuses on Amyloid -beta peptide molecules which form Alzheimer’s disease when they aggregate. I am interested in elucidating the secondary structural elements of these aggregates using standard techniques like hydrogen-deuterium exchange along with mass spectrometry, FTIR and Transmission Electron Microscopy.

Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) student fellowship (2005)

PhD Advisor:
Dr. Ronald Wetzel