Manju Bansal

Biography

Manju Bansal earned her BSc and MSc degrees from Osmania University, Hyderabad. In 1972 she joined the Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for her doctoral degree and worked under the guidance of world-renowned biophysicist GN Ramachandran, on the theoretical modeling of the triple helical structure of the fibrous protein collagen and received her PhD in 1977. She continued working at IISc as a post-doctoral fellow with Professor Sasisekharan, on left handed and other unusual structures of DNA till 1981. She then went to Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, for a year and worked on the structure of filamentous phages. She has been awarded an EMBL Visiting Fellowship and AvH Fellowship, Germany and Senior Fulbright Fellowship, USA. She has been a Visiting Professor at Rutgers University, USA, and Visiting Consultant at NIH, Bethesda, USA.

Research Interest

Molecular Biophysics, Structural and Computational Biology