About Dr. Rudresh Acharya
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Associate Professor School of Biological Science NISER |
Education |
| Ph.D. in Crystallography, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2006 |
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M.Sc. in Physics, Christ College, Bangalore, 1998
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| B.Sc., in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Sree Siddaganga College of Arts Science and Commerce for Boys, Tumkur, 1996 |
Background |
| Before joining the School of Biological Sciences at NISER in May 2012, Dr. Rudresh Acharya was a postdoctoral fellow in the research group of William F. DeGrado at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania. During his postdoctoral tenure, he worked on viral ion channels and computational de novo designed proteins. He determined the X-ray crystal structures of the M2 proton channel from influenza A virus and de novo designed proteins. His Ph.D. work primarily involved the de novo design of peptides and determining their crystal structures. Providing the structural basis for the increase in the thermal stability of mutant thioredoxin protein was also part of his thesis work. |
Honors and Awards |
| Ramalignaswamy fellowship, DBT, India, 2012 |
| IBM Best CAS Students Award, IBM, 2007 |
| Jeffery Award, Pittsburg diffraction Society at XIX Congress and General Assembly of International Union of Crystallography, Geneva, 2002 |
Professional Membership |
| American Chemical Society |
| International Union of Crystallography |