Assistant Professor

• Aug 2019 - Present

Scientific Researcher

• Feb 2019 - Aug 2019

Comparative analysis of amino acid interactions in Membrane protein, Membrane Embedding. Graph Coloring: resetting solution of a 200-year old Hard problem in Mathematics and algorithm Publications: 22. A comprehensive computational study of amino acid interactions in membrane proteins Mame Ndew MbayeY, Qingzhen HouY, Sankar Basu, Fabian Teheux, Fabrizio Pucci, Marianne Rooman* Scientific Reports 9, Article number: 12043 (2019) doi:… Show more Comparative analysis of amino acid interactions in Membrane protein, Membrane Embedding. Graph Coloring: resetting solution of a 200-year old Hard problem in Mathematics and algorithm Publications: 22. A comprehensive computational study of amino acid interactions in membrane proteins Mame Ndew MbayeY, Qingzhen HouY, Sankar Basu, Fabian Teheux, Fabrizio Pucci, Marianne Rooman* Scientific Reports 9, Article number: 12043 (2019) doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48541-2 Publishers: Nature 23. Graph Coloring: A Novel Heuristic Based on Trailing Path, Perspective and Applications in Structured Networks. Abhirup Bandyopadhyay, Amit kumar Dhar, Sankar Basu* Soft Computing (2019). DOI: 10.1007/s00500-019-04278-8) Publishers: Springer Show less Comparative analysis of amino acid interactions in Membrane protein, Membrane Embedding. Graph Coloring: resetting solution of a 200-year old Hard problem in Mathematics and algorithm Publications: 22. A comprehensive computational study of amino acid interactions in membrane proteins Mame Ndew MbayeY, Qingzhen HouY, Sankar Basu, Fabian Teheux, Fabrizio Pucci, Marianne Rooman* Scientific Reports 9, Article number: 12043 (2019) doi:… Show more Comparative analysis of amino acid interactions in Membrane protein, Membrane Embedding. Graph Coloring: resetting solution of a 200-year old Hard problem in Mathematics and algorithm Publications: 22. A comprehensive computational study of amino acid interactions in membrane proteins Mame Ndew MbayeY, Qingzhen HouY, Sankar Basu, Fabian Teheux, Fabrizio Pucci, Marianne Rooman* Scientific Reports 9, Article number: 12043 (2019) doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48541-2 Publishers: Nature 23. Graph Coloring: A Novel Heuristic Based on Trailing Path, Perspective and Applications in Structured Networks. Abhirup Bandyopadhyay, Amit kumar Dhar, Sankar Basu* Soft Computing (2019). DOI: 10.1007/s00500-019-04278-8) Publishers: Springer Show less

Postdoctoral Researcher

• Feb 2019 - Aug 2019

Membrane Proteins & membrane embedding Membrane Proteins & membrane embedding

Post Doctoral Researcher (Visiting Fellow)

• Apr 2018 - Sep 2018

Contributing to the popular software Delphi, DelphipKa for macromoleculer electrostatics, mutation and disease, protein assisted nano-particle interactions 18. Inner-view of nanomaterial incited protein conformational changes: Insights in designable interaction. (Review Article) Arka Mukhopadhyay$, Sankar Basu$, Santiswarup Singha and Hirak K Patra* Research (Science partner Journal), 2018, 9712832 (ISSN: 2639-5274) Appeared as… Show more Contributing to the popular software Delphi, DelphipKa for macromoleculer electrostatics, mutation and disease, protein assisted nano-particle interactions 18. Inner-view of nanomaterial incited protein conformational changes: Insights in designable interaction. (Review Article) Arka Mukhopadhyay$, Sankar Basu$, Santiswarup Singha and Hirak K Patra* Research (Science partner Journal), 2018, 9712832 (ISSN: 2639-5274) Appeared as front cover in the inagural Journal issue. 19. DelPhiPKa: Including salt in the calculations and enabling polar residues to titrate Swagata Pahari, Lexuan Sun, Sankar Basu, Emil Alexov* Proteins, 2018, Sep 25, 86(12):1277-1283 (ISSN: 1097-0134) Publishers: Wiley 20. Structural perspective on revealing and altering molecular mechanisms of genetic variants linked with diseases (Review article) Yunhui Peng, Emil Alexov, Sankar Basu* International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019, 20 (3), 548 Publishers: MDPI 21. DelPhi suite: New developments and review of functionalities Chuan Li*, Zhe Jia, Arghya Chakravorty, Swagata Pahari, Yunhui Peng, Sankar Basu, Mahesh Koirala, Shailesh Kumar Pandey, Marharyta Petukh, Lin Li, Emil Alexov* Journal of Computational Chemistry, April 2019 Publishers: Wiley Show less Contributing to the popular software Delphi, DelphipKa for macromoleculer electrostatics, mutation and disease, protein assisted nano-particle interactions 18. Inner-view of nanomaterial incited protein conformational changes: Insights in designable interaction. (Review Article) Arka Mukhopadhyay$, Sankar Basu$, Santiswarup Singha and Hirak K Patra* Research (Science partner Journal), 2018, 9712832 (ISSN: 2639-5274) Appeared as… Show more Contributing to the popular software Delphi, DelphipKa for macromoleculer electrostatics, mutation and disease, protein assisted nano-particle interactions 18. Inner-view of nanomaterial incited protein conformational changes: Insights in designable interaction. (Review Article) Arka Mukhopadhyay$, Sankar Basu$, Santiswarup Singha and Hirak K Patra* Research (Science partner Journal), 2018, 9712832 (ISSN: 2639-5274) Appeared as front cover in the inagural Journal issue. 19. DelPhiPKa: Including salt in the calculations and enabling polar residues to titrate Swagata Pahari, Lexuan Sun, Sankar Basu, Emil Alexov* Proteins, 2018, Sep 25, 86(12):1277-1283 (ISSN: 1097-0134) Publishers: Wiley 20. Structural perspective on revealing and altering molecular mechanisms of genetic variants linked with diseases (Review article) Yunhui Peng, Emil Alexov, Sankar Basu* International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019, 20 (3), 548 Publishers: MDPI 21. DelPhi suite: New developments and review of functionalities Chuan Li*, Zhe Jia, Arghya Chakravorty, Swagata Pahari, Yunhui Peng, Sankar Basu, Mahesh Koirala, Shailesh Kumar Pandey, Marharyta Petukh, Lin Li, Emil Alexov* Journal of Computational Chemistry, April 2019 Publishers: Wiley Show less

DST-SERB National Post Doctoral Fellow

• May 2017 - Mar 2018

Structural modeling of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Studying their dynamics and stability, Protein-protein and protein-small molecule docking Publications: 16. CPdock: The Complementarity Plot for Docking of Proteins: Implementing Multi-dielectric Continuum Electrostatics Sankar Basu* Journal of Molecular Modeling, 2018, 24:8, DOI: 10.1007/s00894-017-3546-y (ISSN: 0948-5023) Publishers: Springer 17. Salt-bridge Dynamics in Intrinsically Disordered… Show more Structural modeling of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Studying their dynamics and stability, Protein-protein and protein-small molecule docking Publications: 16. CPdock: The Complementarity Plot for Docking of Proteins: Implementing Multi-dielectric Continuum Electrostatics Sankar Basu* Journal of Molecular Modeling, 2018, 24:8, DOI: 10.1007/s00894-017-3546-y (ISSN: 0948-5023) Publishers: Springer 17. Salt-bridge Dynamics in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: A trade-off between electrostatic interactions and structural flexibility Sankar Basu and Parbati Biswas* BBA Proteins and Proteomics, 2018, 1866 (5-6): 624-641 (ISSN: 1570-9639) Publishers: Elsevier Show less Structural modeling of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Studying their dynamics and stability, Protein-protein and protein-small molecule docking Publications: 16. CPdock: The Complementarity Plot for Docking of Proteins: Implementing Multi-dielectric Continuum Electrostatics Sankar Basu* Journal of Molecular Modeling, 2018, 24:8, DOI: 10.1007/s00894-017-3546-y (ISSN: 0948-5023) Publishers: Springer 17. Salt-bridge Dynamics in Intrinsically Disordered… Show more Structural modeling of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Studying their dynamics and stability, Protein-protein and protein-small molecule docking Publications: 16. CPdock: The Complementarity Plot for Docking of Proteins: Implementing Multi-dielectric Continuum Electrostatics Sankar Basu* Journal of Molecular Modeling, 2018, 24:8, DOI: 10.1007/s00894-017-3546-y (ISSN: 0948-5023) Publishers: Springer 17. Salt-bridge Dynamics in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: A trade-off between electrostatic interactions and structural flexibility Sankar Basu and Parbati Biswas* BBA Proteins and Proteomics, 2018, 1866 (5-6): 624-641 (ISSN: 1570-9639) Publishers: Elsevier Show less

DST-SERB Post Doctoral Research

• Jun 2016 - Apr 2017

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Force Microscopy Imaging, Graph Coloring, RNA structure validation, small molecule docking Publications: 13. RNAHelix: Computational Modeling of Nucleic Acid Structures with Watson-Crick and Non-canonical Base pairs Dhananjay Bhattacharyya*, Sukanya Halder, Sankar Basu, Prasun Kumar, Debasish Mukherjee, Manju Bansal* Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 2017, 31(2): 219-235 (ISSN: 1573-4951)… Show more Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Force Microscopy Imaging, Graph Coloring, RNA structure validation, small molecule docking Publications: 13. RNAHelix: Computational Modeling of Nucleic Acid Structures with Watson-Crick and Non-canonical Base pairs Dhananjay Bhattacharyya*, Sukanya Halder, Sankar Basu, Prasun Kumar, Debasish Mukherjee, Manju Bansal* Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 2017, 31(2): 219-235 (ISSN: 1573-4951) Publishers: Springer 14. Salt-bridge Networks within Globular and Disordered Proteins - Characterizing Trends for Designable Interactions. Sankar Basu* and Debasish Mukharjee Journal of Molecular Modeling, (2017) 23:206 (ISSN: 0948-5023) Publishers: Springer 15. Nitric oxide sensing by chlorophyll-a Abhishek Bhattacharya, Pranjal Biswas, Puranjoy Kar, Piya Roychoudhury, Sankar Basu, Souradipta Ganguly, Sanjay Ghosh, Kaustab Panda, Ruma Pal, Anjan Kr. Dasgupta* Analytica Chemica Acta, 2017, 985:101-113 Publishers: ELSEVIER Copyright: 1. Software for Analyzing Magnetic Images by a Fusion Imaging Approach to study Nanoscale Surface Distribution of Magnetic Force Sankar Basu, Puja Biswas, & Anjan Dasgupta* Indian Copyright Diary Number. 9692/2016-CO/SW, Granted (Sept, 2017). Registration Number. SW-9224/2017 Show less Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Force Microscopy Imaging, Graph Coloring, RNA structure validation, small molecule docking Publications: 13. RNAHelix: Computational Modeling of Nucleic Acid Structures with Watson-Crick and Non-canonical Base pairs Dhananjay Bhattacharyya*, Sukanya Halder, Sankar Basu, Prasun Kumar, Debasish Mukherjee, Manju Bansal* Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 2017, 31(2): 219-235 (ISSN: 1573-4951)… Show more Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Force Microscopy Imaging, Graph Coloring, RNA structure validation, small molecule docking Publications: 13. RNAHelix: Computational Modeling of Nucleic Acid Structures with Watson-Crick and Non-canonical Base pairs Dhananjay Bhattacharyya*, Sukanya Halder, Sankar Basu, Prasun Kumar, Debasish Mukherjee, Manju Bansal* Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 2017, 31(2): 219-235 (ISSN: 1573-4951) Publishers: Springer 14. Salt-bridge Networks within Globular and Disordered Proteins - Characterizing Trends for Designable Interactions. Sankar Basu* and Debasish Mukharjee Journal of Molecular Modeling, (2017) 23:206 (ISSN: 0948-5023) Publishers: Springer 15. Nitric oxide sensing by chlorophyll-a Abhishek Bhattacharya, Pranjal Biswas, Puranjoy Kar, Piya Roychoudhury, Sankar Basu, Souradipta Ganguly, Sanjay Ghosh, Kaustab Panda, Ruma Pal, Anjan Kr. Dasgupta* Analytica Chemica Acta, 2017, 985:101-113 Publishers: ELSEVIER Copyright: 1. Software for Analyzing Magnetic Images by a Fusion Imaging Approach to study Nanoscale Surface Distribution of Magnetic Force Sankar Basu, Puja Biswas, & Anjan Dasgupta* Indian Copyright Diary Number. 9692/2016-CO/SW, Granted (Sept, 2017). Registration Number. SW-9224/2017 Show less

Post Doctoral Research Assosiate

• Oct 2014 - May 2016

Protein protein docking scoring, quality and structure validation of PPI complexes, IDP's Publications: 9. SARAMAint: The Complementarity Plot for Protein-Protein Interface Sankar Basu, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, and Bjorn Wallner* Journal of Bioinformatics and Intelegent Controll, 2014, 3:309-314. (ISSN: 2326-7496) Publishers: American Scienctific Publishers 10. Finding correct protein-protein docking models using ProQDock. Sankar Basu, Bjorn Wallner*… Show more Protein protein docking scoring, quality and structure validation of PPI complexes, IDP's Publications: 9. SARAMAint: The Complementarity Plot for Protein-Protein Interface Sankar Basu, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, and Bjorn Wallner* Journal of Bioinformatics and Intelegent Controll, 2014, 3:309-314. (ISSN: 2326-7496) Publishers: American Scienctific Publishers 10. Finding correct protein-protein docking models using ProQDock. Sankar Basu, Bjorn Wallner* Bioinformatics. 2016, 32 (12): i262-i270. (ISSN: 1460-2059) doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw257 Publishers: Oxford Press 11. DockQ: A quality measure for protein-protein docking models. Sankar Basu, Bjorn Wallner* PLOS ONE, 2016, 11 (8): e0161879 (eISSN: 1932-6203) doi: DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0161879 Publishers: PLOS 12. Proteus: A Random Forest Classifier that Predicts Disorder-to-Order Transitioning Binding Regions in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Sankar Basu, Fredrik Söderqvist, Björn Wallner* Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 2017, 31(5): 453–466 (ISSN: 1573-4951) Publishers: Springer Show less Protein protein docking scoring, quality and structure validation of PPI complexes, IDP's Publications: 9. SARAMAint: The Complementarity Plot for Protein-Protein Interface Sankar Basu, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, and Bjorn Wallner* Journal of Bioinformatics and Intelegent Controll, 2014, 3:309-314. (ISSN: 2326-7496) Publishers: American Scienctific Publishers 10. Finding correct protein-protein docking models using ProQDock. Sankar Basu, Bjorn Wallner*… Show more Protein protein docking scoring, quality and structure validation of PPI complexes, IDP's Publications: 9. SARAMAint: The Complementarity Plot for Protein-Protein Interface Sankar Basu, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, and Bjorn Wallner* Journal of Bioinformatics and Intelegent Controll, 2014, 3:309-314. (ISSN: 2326-7496) Publishers: American Scienctific Publishers 10. Finding correct protein-protein docking models using ProQDock. Sankar Basu, Bjorn Wallner* Bioinformatics. 2016, 32 (12): i262-i270. (ISSN: 1460-2059) doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw257 Publishers: Oxford Press 11. DockQ: A quality measure for protein-protein docking models. Sankar Basu, Bjorn Wallner* PLOS ONE, 2016, 11 (8): e0161879 (eISSN: 1932-6203) doi: DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0161879 Publishers: PLOS 12. Proteus: A Random Forest Classifier that Predicts Disorder-to-Order Transitioning Binding Regions in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Sankar Basu, Fredrik Söderqvist, Björn Wallner* Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 2017, 31(5): 453–466 (ISSN: 1573-4951) Publishers: Springer Show less

post doctoral researcher

• Feb 2014 - Jul 2014

"Non conserved interactions in orthologs" (NIH funded) "Non conserved interactions in orthologs" (NIH funded)

Senior Research Fellow

• Sep 2008 - Feb 2014

Protein Folding: Packing, Geometry, Topology of Contact Networks, Electrostatics, Dynamics and Design Publications: 2. Mapping the distribution of packing topologies within protein interiors shows predominant preference for specific packing motifs. Sankar Basu, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, and Rahul Banerjee BMC Bioinformatics. 2011; 12: 195 3. Self-Complementarity within Proteins: Bridging the Gap between Binding and Folding. Sankar Basu, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, and… Show more Protein Folding: Packing, Geometry, Topology of Contact Networks, Electrostatics, Dynamics and Design Publications: 2. Mapping the distribution of packing topologies within protein interiors shows predominant preference for specific packing motifs. Sankar Basu, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, and Rahul Banerjee BMC Bioinformatics. 2011; 12: 195 3. Self-Complementarity within Proteins: Bridging the Gap between Binding and Folding. Sankar Basu, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, and Rahul Banerjee* Biophysical Journal 2012, Vol. 102 (issue: 11), pp. 2605-2614 4. SARAMA: A Standalone Suite of Programs for the Complementarity Plot – A Graphical Structure Validation Tool for Proteins. Sankar Basu*, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya and Rahul Banerjee* Journal of Bioinformatics and Intelegent Controll 2013, 2 (4): 321-323 5. Applications of Complementarity Plot in error detection and structure validation of proteins. Sankar Basu, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya and Rahul Banerjee* Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2014, 51 (June) : 188-200 6. Equilibrium unfolding of cyclophilin from Leishmania donovani: Characterization of intermediate states Sourav Roy, Sankar Basu, Alok K. Datta, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, Dipak Dasgupta*, and Rahul Banerjee* International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2014, 69: 353-360 7. The unfolding MD-simulations of Cyclophilin: Analysed by Surface Contact Networks and their associated matrices Sourav Roy, Sankar Basu, Dipak Dasgupta, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya*, and Rahul Banerjee* PLOS ONE, 2015, 10(11): e0142173 Publishers: PLOS 8. Analysis of Stacking Overlap in Nucleic Acid Structures: Algorithm and Application Pavan Kumar Pingali, Sukanya Halder, Debasish Mukharjee, Sankar Basu, Rahul Banerjee, Devapriya Choudhuri and Dhananjay Bhattacharyya* Journal of Computer Aided Molecular design, 2014, 28:851–867 Show less Protein Folding: Packing, Geometry, Topology of Contact Networks, Electrostatics, Dynamics and Design Publications: 2. Mapping the distribution of packing topologies within protein interiors shows predominant preference for specific packing motifs. Sankar Basu, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, and Rahul Banerjee BMC Bioinformatics. 2011; 12: 195 3. Self-Complementarity within Proteins: Bridging the Gap between Binding and Folding. Sankar Basu, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, and… Show more Protein Folding: Packing, Geometry, Topology of Contact Networks, Electrostatics, Dynamics and Design Publications: 2. Mapping the distribution of packing topologies within protein interiors shows predominant preference for specific packing motifs. Sankar Basu, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, and Rahul Banerjee BMC Bioinformatics. 2011; 12: 195 3. Self-Complementarity within Proteins: Bridging the Gap between Binding and Folding. Sankar Basu, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, and Rahul Banerjee* Biophysical Journal 2012, Vol. 102 (issue: 11), pp. 2605-2614 4. SARAMA: A Standalone Suite of Programs for the Complementarity Plot – A Graphical Structure Validation Tool for Proteins. Sankar Basu*, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya and Rahul Banerjee* Journal of Bioinformatics and Intelegent Controll 2013, 2 (4): 321-323 5. Applications of Complementarity Plot in error detection and structure validation of proteins. Sankar Basu, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya and Rahul Banerjee* Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2014, 51 (June) : 188-200 6. Equilibrium unfolding of cyclophilin from Leishmania donovani: Characterization of intermediate states Sourav Roy, Sankar Basu, Alok K. Datta, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, Dipak Dasgupta*, and Rahul Banerjee* International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2014, 69: 353-360 7. The unfolding MD-simulations of Cyclophilin: Analysed by Surface Contact Networks and their associated matrices Sourav Roy, Sankar Basu, Dipak Dasgupta, Dhananjay Bhattacharyya*, and Rahul Banerjee* PLOS ONE, 2015, 10(11): e0142173 Publishers: PLOS 8. Analysis of Stacking Overlap in Nucleic Acid Structures: Algorithm and Application Pavan Kumar Pingali, Sukanya Halder, Debasish Mukharjee, Sankar Basu, Rahul Banerjee, Devapriya Choudhuri and Dhananjay Bhattacharyya* Journal of Computer Aided Molecular design, 2014, 28:851–867 Show less