Yusuf Akhter

Biography

Academic Qualification: ï‚· Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), 2010 (*Submitted 2009), Biochemistry, Work carried out at: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg Germany/Center for DNA Fingerprinting & Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India, Thesis submitted to: University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, Title of the thesis: Studies on cAMP Receptor protein from mycobacteria, Supervisors: Prof Seyed E. Hasnain, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India/Dr. Matthias Wilmanns, EMBL, Hamburg. ï‚· Master of Science (M.Sc), 2004, Department of Biotechnology, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi, India, Specialization: Biotechnology, First Division with 79.40% Marks, Second rank in the University ï‚· Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), 2002, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India, Subjects: Botany, Zoology and Chemistry, First Division with 67.83% Marks, First rank in the college Positions Held: 1. Assistant Professor (Nov., 2012 to the date) in School of Life Sciences at Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India. 2. EMBO long-term Fellow (January, 2011-Nov, 2012) at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg, Germany. 3. Post-Doctoral Fellow (February, 2010 to December, 2010) at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg, Germany. 4. DAAD-Research Fellow (June, 2007 to October, 2009) worked on “Structure-function studies on cAMP receptor proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis” at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg, Germany. 5. CSIR-Research Fellow (July, 2004 to May, 2007) worked on “Characterization of therapeutically important genes from Mycobacterium tuberculosis” at Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad. Page 2 of 13 6. Project Intern (July, 2003 to May, 2004) entitled “In vitro salt tolerance in Psoralea corylifolia their characterization and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis” at Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory, Dept. of Biotechnology, Hamdard University, New Delhi. 7. Summer Intern (April, 2003 to July, 2003) entitled “Isolation of opioid receptors, their characterization and synthesis of chimeric peptide ligands” at Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India. Specialisation: -Protein Structures -Drug discovery against bacterial and protozoan pathogens

Research Interest

Structural Bioinformatics & Immunoinformatics Protein Structure and Function, Drug discovery against bacterial pathogens, Host-pathogen interaction, Transcription and post-translational modification in bacteria