People
Principal Investigator
Dr. Chandan Goswami
Professor
PhD: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Post-doc: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.
Education
- B.Sc(Ag)Hons, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswa Vidyalaya, West Bengal, India (Aug 1991- Dec 1995)
- M.Sc in Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (1st Aug 1996- Jul 1998)
- Research fellow at National Centre for Biological Science, Bangalore, India (1st Aug 1998-15th Jan 2002)
- Research fellow at Dept of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1st Feb 2002-31st May 2002)
- PhD thesis work at the Dept of Biochemistry, Freie University of Berlin, Germany (1st Jun 2002-31st Dec 2005)
- Post doctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany (1st Jan 2006-15th July 2009)
Positions held
- Faculty member (July 2009 - Present), School of Biological Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India
- Chairperson (July 2016 - June 2019), School of Biological Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India
- DAAD Research Ambassador, India (2017 - 2022)
Post Doc Fellows
Dr. Satish Kumar
Post-Doctoral fellow
Working on TRPV4 in mitochondria and bone cells.
Present Students
PhD Students
Ram Prasad Sahu
Graduate Student
Working on TRPV3 channel. He is passionate about music and playing musical instruments.
Nishant Kumar Dubey
Graduate Student
Working on TRPV4 channel.
Sushama Mohanta
Graduate Student
Working on TRPV1.
Deep Shikha
Graduate Student
Working on TRPA1,TRPM8, DRG Neuron and microglia cells.
Barsha Tripathy
Graduate Student
Working on in-silico analysis of lipid interactions in ion channels.
Parnasree Mahapatra
Graduate Student
Working on TRPV4/M8.
Anupriya Chattapadhya
Graduate Student
Working on TRPV3.
Masters Students
Subham Mishra
Master's Student (2019-24)
Working on TRPV4.
Nilesh Kumar Das
Master's Student (2019-24)
Working on TRPV1 and pain.
Raima Singh
Master's Student (2019-24)
Working on TRPM8.
Tanishaa Aswin
Master's Student (2023-25)
Exploring TRPV3.
Ramizur Rahaman Halder
Master's Student (2023-25)
Working on TRPM8.
Vikash Kumar
Master's Student (2023-25)
Working on protein interactions through MD Simulation studies.
Project Students
Shweta
Project Student
PhD student from KIIT institute
Alumni
Former PhD Students
Dr. Ashutosh Kumar (2010-2016)
Senior post-doc fellow at Washington University, School of Medicine, USA.
Dr. Manoj Yadav (2012-2017)
Post-doc fellow at National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA from 2019.
Dr. Rakesh Kumar Majhi (2012-2017)
Assistant Professor at IIT Kanpur since 2022.
Dr. Somdatta Saha (2014-2020)
Post-doc fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA since 2021.
Dr. Rashmita Das (2015-2022)
PhD completed in 2022.
Dr. Tusar Kanta Acharya (2017-2023)
Post Doc fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas since 2023.
Former MSc Students
Dr. Pushpendu Sardar (2010-2012)
Post-doc fellow at Cambridge University, UK since Sept 2021.
Dr. Shikha Kumari (2012-2014)
Post-doc fellow at Wellcome Center for Integrative Parasitology, University of Glasgow since 2020.
Dr. Anurag Priyadarshi (2013-15)
Post-doc fellow at National Institute of Health, USA.
Dr. Arijit Ghosh (2014-2016)
Post-doc fellow at National Heart, Lungs, and Blood Institute, USA.
Nikhil Tiwari (2016-2018)
PhD student at Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie (LIN), Magdeburg, Germany.
Tanaya Saha
(2016-2018)
Joined as a JRF at NII, New Delhi since 2018.
Aiswarya Shivanand
(2016-2018)
JRF at Indian Institute of Science since 2019.
Divyanshi
(2017-2019)
Joined University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a PhD student since Oct 2018.
Stuti Gupta
(2017-2019)
Joined University of Iowa, USA as a PhD student since 2019.
Subhadra Majhi
(2017-2019)
SPCB assistant environmental scientist.
Samikshya Sucharita
(2017-2019)
Priyadarshan Pradhan (2018-2020)
Lecturer of Zoology at Govt. Model degree college, Sonepur.
Srujanika
(2019-2021)
PhD student in Instem, Bangalore since 2021.
Aniket Modak (2019-2021)
MBA student at IIM, Ahmedabad since 2022.
Anushka Jain
(2020-2022)
PhD student at University of Rochester, USA since 2022.
Ritesh Dalai
(2020-23)
Passionate about coding and simulating molecular interactions of protein channels, worked on TRPV3 and TRPV4 channels.
Shamit Kumar (2021-23)
PhD student at Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung, Germany.
Tejas Pravin Rokade (2021-23)
PhD student at University of Illinois Chicago.
Shreya Soni
(2021-23)
Worked on TRPV4 and aquaporins in fish cells.
Harshit Haldua
(2021-23)
Worked on TRPM2.
Project Students and Fellows
Ranabir Chakraborty (2021-2022)
PhD student at Institut Pasteur, Paris France since 2022.
Dr. Ankit Tiwari
(2018-2019)
Post doctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Lab, USA
Dr. Nirlipta Swain
(2012-2014)
Assistant professor at Department of Higher Education, Govt.of Odisha
Visiting Students
Anushka Banerjee (2023)
PhD student at IIT Kanpur since 2023.
Bibhudutta Sahoo
Project Student (2023)