Diwakar Shukla
Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
The Institute for Genomic Biology
United States of America
Biography
Diwakar Shukla is a Blue Waters Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He also is an affiliate faculty member in the Center for Biophysics and Computational biology, the Computational Science & Engineering Program, Department of Plant Biology and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. His research work is focused on understanding the complex biological processes using novel physics-based models and techniques. He joined the department in 2015. He received his B. Tech and M. Tech. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay and his MS and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His postdoctoral work was at Stanford University. He has received several awards for his research including the Peterson award from ACS, Innovation in Biotechnology award from AAPS, COMSEF Graduate student award from AIChE, Institute Silver Medal and Manudhane Award from IIT Bombay.
Research Interest
Chemical and Biomolecular
Publications
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D. Shukla*, C. P. Schneider* and B. L. Trout, Effects of Solute-Solute Interactions on Protein Stability Studied Using Various Counterions and Dendrimers, PLoS One, Vol.6, No. 11, e27665, 2011.
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T. J. Lane, D. Shukla, K. A. Beauchamp and V. S. Pande, To Milliseconds and Beyond: Challenges in the Simulation of Protein Folding. Curr. Opin. Struc. Bio., Vol. 23, No. 1, 58-65, 2013.
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D. Shukla, Y. Meng, B. Roux and V. S. Pande, Activation Pathway of Src Kinase Reveals Intermediate States as Novel Targets for Drug Design. Nature Communications, 5:3397, doi: 10.1038/ncomms4397, 2014. Recommended in F1000Prime.
