P Chakrabarti

Biography

Pinak Chakrabarti earned his BSc degree from Gauhati University, MSc degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur and PhD degree (1981) from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore working under the supervision of Professor K Venkatesan on small molecule X-ray crystallography. After a year of post-doctoral work with Professor Jack Dunitz at ETH, Zurich, he shifted to protein crystallography working in the lab of Professor Michael Rossmann (Purdue University) and Doug C Rees (UCLA, Caltech). In 1990, he joined National Chemical Laboratory, where in addition to taking care of the X-ray crystallography Facility, he started working in structural bioinformatics. In 1997, he shifted to Bose Institute, Kolkata, where he is now a Senior Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and In-charge of the Bioinformatics Centre.

Research Interest

Molecular Biophysics, X-ray Crystallography and Structural Biology, Bioinformatics