Rakesh Krishnan
Resume
Research Experience
Aug 2023 - Present
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Molecular Dynamics simulation of Antimicrobial Peptides
Mar 2023 - July 2023
Postdoctoral Fellow, IIT Bombay
Computational simulation of Heterochromatin protein-1 phase separation.
Dec 2023 - Feb 2023
Research Assistant, IIT Bombay
Computational study of phase separating biomolecules in cell
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Research Assistant, IIT Madras
Computational study of urea denaturation of protein using Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics (REMD) simulations
Education
Dec 2016-Apr 2023
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Ph.D., Computational Biophysics
July 2012-May 2016
SASTRA University
B.Tech., Bioinformatics
Teaching
Experience
Teaching Assistant in Courses:
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Mathematical Biology
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Modeling Biological Systems and Processes
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NPTEL Teaching Assistant:
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Introductory Mathematical Methods for Biologists (2020).
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Introductory Mathematical Methods for Biologists (2021)
Conferences
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Presented poster in IDPosters22 by IDPSeminars (Virtually).
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Presented a poster in the “EMBO Workshop on Physics of cells: Physcell2022” at Ein Gedi, Israel.
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Presented a poster at the “International School on Biological Physics of cells” (2022) at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
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Presented a poster at the “66th Annual Biophysical Society Annual Meeting”(2022) at San Franciso, CA (Virtually).
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Participated in an online conference on "Multiscale Simulation & Mathematical Modelling of Complex Biological Systems" by JNU, 2021.
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Attended and presented my work in Biophysics Paschim 2020.
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Attended and presented a poster at the conference “ComFlu” (2019) at IISER Bhopal.
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Attended a school on “Mathematical Biology” (2018) at IMSC Chennai.
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Attended a national symposium on “Frontiers In Modern Biology” (2018) at IISER Kolkata.
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Organized a symposium on “Modern Biology” (2016) at SASTRA University.​
Skills & Expertise
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Programming languages: C, C++
Scripting languages: Python, shell script, tcl
Softwares simulations: LAMMPS, NAMD, GROMACS
Visualization Softwares: VMD, Pymol, Ovito
Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu), Windows, MacOS