Born on 30 November 1966,[1] Debasisa Mohanty earned a post graduate degree (MSc) in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1988 and did his doctoral studies at the Molecular Biophysics Unit of the Indian Institute of Science to secure a PhD in computational biophysics in 1994.[2] Subsequently, he completed his post-doctoral work, first the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and, later, at the Scripps Research Institute.[3] On his return to India, he joined the National Institute of Immunology, India (NII) where he serves as a Grade VII staff scientist and hosts a number of research scholars at his laboratory. He currently hold director position at NII. At NII, he also supervises the activities of RiPPMiner, (Bioinformatics Resource for Deciphering Chemical Structures of RiPPs)[4] and the Bioinformatics Centre.[5]
Mohanty resides at the NII Campus, along Aruna Asaf Ali Marg in New Delhi.[6]
Legacy
Mohanty's research focus is in the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics[7] and he is known to have developed computational methods for predicting the substrate specificity of proteins as well as identified biosynthetic pathways.[2] His work has assisted in widening the understanding of the function of putative proteins in genomes and the protein interaction networks in newly sequenced genomes.[3] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[8][note 1] and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 108 of them.[9]
Mohanty was a member of the national organizing committee of the International Conference in Bioinformatics (INCOB) held in 2006 in India
[10] and has delivered invited speeches at various conferences which included the seminar series on Proteomics and bioinformatics of the Regional Centre for Biotechnology held in 2013,[11] the Symposium on Accelerating Biology 2017: Delivering Precision of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) held in January 2017 in Pune,[12] and the Symposium on Functional Genomics organized by the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology in Delhi in December 2017.[13]
^"RiPPMiner". www.nii.ac.in. 21 January 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
^"Bioinformatics Centre". Council Of State Industrial Development and Investment Corporations Of India (COSIDICI). 21 January 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
^"NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 21 January 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
^"Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 21 January 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
^"On Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 20 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
^"NASI Year Book 2015"(PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India. 21 January 2018. Archived from the original(PDF) on 6 August 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
^"INSA Year Book 2016"(PDF). Indian National Science Academy. 21 January 2018. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
Further reading
D. Mohanty (21 January 2018). "In silico identification of novel biosynthetic pathways by knowledge-based prediction of protein structure/function" (Presentation). Indian Institute of Science.
External links
Shibaeva, A. N. (21 January 2018). "Mohanty on PubMed - NCBI". Fel'dsher I Akusherka. 40 (9): 31–4. PMID255.