Resume

University of Pennsylvania – Postdoctoral Fellow                                             Aug 2023– Aug 2025
Supervisor: Prof. Cesar de la Fuente

• Studied antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial peptides (AMP) using various methods like simulations, bioinformatics, and data mining.

• Performed simulation on lipid bilayer and AMP system to study cell penetration viability and activity of AMPs against multiple bacterial strains.

• Performed enhanced sampling simulations of the lipid-peptide system to study the free energy of various lipid bilayers.

• Mined the intrinsically disordered proteome to find active AMPs in different bacterial strains. 

• Worked on various collaborative projects on AMR, tumor immunity, and immunomodular activities.

IIT Bombay – Research Scholar, Associate and Postdoctoral Fellow                   Jan 2017–Jul 2023
Supervisor: Prof. Ranjith Padinhateeri

• Studied the role of non-specific interaction in the role of phase-separation of intrinsically disordered proteins.

• Simulated the phase-separation of protein and DNA-like polymer to understand the effect of phase-separation in the DNA-repair mechanism.

• Modeled and simulated the HP1 protein to understand the role of few interacting regions in heterochromatin formation.

• Collaborated with the experimental group to study the effect of protein interaction in the folding of IDP, alpha-synuclein.