Experience

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  Forge Biologics

  • Grove City, Ohio, United States

  • SCIENTIST II

    • Mar 2022 - Present
    • Grove City, Ohio, United States

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  University of Oklahoma

  • United States

  • Research Assistant Professor

    • Jan 2015 - Mar 2022
    • United States

    Research Assistant Professor with over six years of lab management experience collaborating with different groups across departments involving multiple projects. Trained structural biologist with over 10 years of experience in cloning, expression, purification, structure determination of proteins using X-ray crystallography and functional annotation of these proteins through structure and sequence comparisons.

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  OU

  • United States

  • Postdoc

    • 2012 - 2014
    • United States

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  USUHS

  • Research Associate

    • Aug 2009 - Feb 2012

    The current work involves determination of the structure of a two-component regulatory system protein, whose mutation results in severe attenuation of the bacterial virulence. the structure is expected to provide a template to design small molecules as drug targets against TB.

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  Montana State University

  • RA / TA

    • Jan 2003 - Aug 2009

    TA - Assisted and instructed undergraduate students in laboratory settings for 3years. Duties included conducting experiments, setting up laboratory, designing in lab quizzes and grading tests.RA - Structure-Function characterization of proteins. Research involved cloning, expression and purification of desired proteins using the E.coli expression system. Further, protein structure was determined using X-ray crystallography technique and subsequent functional analysis of the protein was carried out using several biochemical and biophysical techniques.

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  Bhabha Atomic Research Center

  • Internship

    • Jun 2001 - Jan 2002

    Received a scholarship to work as Junior Research Fellow on DAE-BRNS project "Structural and Functional relationship of wheat proteins as effected by irradiation with special reference to chapatti making qualities." Project involved the use of U.V spectrophotometer for studying the effect of various denaturing agents on irradiated and non-irradiated wheat proteins.

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  Bhabha Atomic Research Center

  • Summer Intern

    • May 1999 - Jun 1999

    Dealing in techniques such as isolation of volatile and non-volatile components by simultaneous distillation and extraction, Gas Liquid Chromatogarphy and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrophotometry (GC-MS)

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  Sekhsaria Chemicals Ltd

  • Summer Intern

    • Apr 1997 - May 1997

    In-plant training

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  Rastriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd

  • Summer Intern

    • May 1996 - Jun 1996

    In-plant training