Sukanya Chakraborty
EDUCATION
College / University
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Berhampur
Highest Degree
Integrated Bachelor of Science and Master of Science
Major Subjects
Biological Sciences
Country
India
Lab Experience
Wet Lab: Mice Handling, breeding and maintenance, Perfusion Surgery, Mice Brain and Hippocampus Dissection, Vibratome sectioning of fresh brains, Genotyping, qRT-PCR, Western Blotting, Immunohistochemistry, ELISA, Molecular Cloning
Dry Lab: Data Mining, differential gene expression analysis using R programming (DeSeq2 pipeline), Reaction Time data analysis in MATLAB for human behavioural eye-head coordination motor experiments
Projects / Research
- 07/2020 – 06/2021: Master's thesis "Role of Perineuronal Nets in the pathophysiology of Syngap1+/- mice model of Autism Spectrum Disorder" (Mentor: Dr James P. Clement Chelliah, Neuroscience Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru)
- 06/2020 – 08/2020: Summer Research; "Mining genes common to sudden and gradual axonal degeneration based on RNASeq data" (Mentor: Dr Zhumur Ghosh, Bioinformatics Centre, Bose Institute, Kolkata)
- 04/2020 – 11/2020: iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) Competition: "FRaPPe: A FRET Based Ranker for Proteins and Peptides"; IISER Berhampur (Primary Instructor: Dr R Selvi Bharathavikru, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Berhampur)
- 06/2019 – 07/2019: Summer Reserach: "Developing a common command model for Eye-Head Coordination during Gaze Shifts (1) and Optimization of infant Motor Babbling simulations in OpenSim (2)" (Mentor: Prof Aditya Murthy, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru)
Scholarships / Awards
2022 – 2023: | Stipend by the International Max Planck Research School |
2017– 2022: | DST-INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India |
2019: | Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Summer Research Fellowship Program (Life Sciences Category) |