Dr. Shekhar C. Mande
| Name | Shekhar C. Mande | ||||||||
| Date of birth | 5-April-1962 | ||||||||
| Correspondence address | Director National Centre for Cell Science Ganeshkhind, Pune University Campus Pune 411 007 Ph : +91-20-25691065 | ||||||||
| Contact No. | Mobile: (0) 82750 67738 Landline: (020) 2570 8121, (020) 2569 1065 | ||||||||
| director@nccs.res.in, shekhar@nccs.res.in | |||||||||
| Educational qualifications | |||||||||
| Qualification | Year | University | Subjects | ||||||
| Senior fellow | 1992-1995 | University of Washington, Seattle, USA | Structural Biology | ||||||
| Post-doctoral fellow | 1991- 1992 | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands | Structural Biology | ||||||
| Ph. D. | 1991 | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | Molecular Biophysics | ||||||
| M. Sc. | 1984 | Nagpur University, Nagpur | Physics (X-rays & Electronics) | ||||||
Present Position:
Director, National Centre for Cell Science, from 1-September-2011
Academic Experience/ Service Details:
| As Director, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune | September 2011- till date |
| As Staff Scientist- VII, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad | May 2010- August 2011 |
| As Staff Scientist- VI, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad | April 2006- May 2010 |
| As Staff Scientist- V, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad | Sept 2001- April 2006 |
| As Scientist C, Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh | Dec 2005- Sept 2001 |
Administrative positions held:
Director, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune from September 2011- till date
No. of Ph. D. successfully guided
| Name of the Student | Awarded by |
| Bhupesh Taneja | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
| Radha Chauhan | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
| Rohini Qamra | University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad |
| Kshama Goyal | Manipal University, Manipal |
| Mohd. Akif | Manipal University, Manipal |
| C. M. Santosh Kumar | Manipal University, Manipal |
| Debashree Basu | Manipal University, Manipal |
| Pramod Kumar | Manipal University, Manipal |
| Archana Krishnan | Manipal University, Manipal |
| Shubhada Hegde | University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad |
| Aditi Sharma | Manipal University, Manipal |
| Swastik Phulera | Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune |
| Under progress | 6 |
Fellowships and Memberships of professional bodies:
- Fellow, Maharashtra Academy of Science, Elected, 2015
- Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, Delhi, Elected 2010
- Fellow, Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences, Elected 2010
- Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellow, 2003-08
- Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India, Elected 2003
- Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, Elected 2003
- Life member, Indian Crystallographic Association
- Life member, Indian Science Congress Association
- Life member, Indian Biophysical Society
Awards:
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Biological Sciences, 2005
- B M Birla Young Scientist Award, 1999
Academic Interests:
- Proteins structure and function
- Biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, probed through structural analysis of proteins, various biophysical and biochemical approaches
- Applications of Graph Theory to large scale protein interaction networks
- Computational methods to analyse large-scale biological data
Area of Specialization:
- X-ray Crystallography
- Computational Biology
- Proteins structure and function
- Biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, probed through structural analysis of proteins, various biophysical and biochemical approaches
- Applications of Graph Theory to large scale protein interaction networks
- Computational methods to analyse large-scale biological data
