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Priya Anand Sawal
Department of Biophysics
Panjab University
Chandigarh-160014
India
Email: priyaanand27atgmail.com
Michigan Technological University
Department of Physics
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, Michigan 49931-1295
USA
Office: Fisher Hall 124
Email: panand@mtu.edu
Education
:
- Ph.D.(pursuing)
Also worked in German National Lab from May2007-June2008: John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC), Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany.
Advisor:
Prof Dr. Ulrich H.E.Hansmann (MTU, USA).
Thesis: Insights Into The Alzheimer’s Aß-Assembly Formation And Design of Its Inhibitors: A Molecular Modeling Approach.
- Determined the structure of Aß amyloid peptides monomer and various oligomers studies using restrained canonical Molecular Dynamics and Replica Exchange Molecular dynamics simulations based on NMR-derived distance restraints.
- Predicted binding modes of BSB (Beta sheet breaker) peptides to Alzheimer’s Aß peptide using macromolecular docking.
- M.Sc. (Biophysics): April 2004, Department of Biophysics, Panjab University, Chandigarh - 160014, India.
- B.Sc. (Biophysics): April 2002, Department of Biophysics, Panjab University, Chandigarh - 160014, India.
Scholastic Achievements
:
- DAAD Fellowship: Awarded DAAD (DEUTSCHER AKADEMISCHER AUSTAUSCHDIENST) Scholarship May’ 2007.
Institution : John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC),Germany.
Advisor : Prof Dr. Ulrich.H.E.Hansmann
- Best Poster A. R. Gopala Ayengar Award in Indian Biophysical Society 2007, New Delhi, India.
- Awarded ‘Silver Jubilee Merit Scholarship’, twice by Haryana Govt., Chandigarh, India (2002-04).
Research Interests:
- Computational Biophysics, Protein Folding & Molecular Docking.
Publications:
- Priya Anand U.H.E.Hansmann, Intrinsic and environmant effects on folding and dimerization of Alzheimer's Beta-amyloid peptide, submitted for publication(2009).
- Priya Anand, F.S. Nandel and U.H.E. Hansmann, The Alzheimer's beta amyloid (Abeta{1-39}) dimer in an implicit solvent, J. Chem. Phys.,129,195102, (2008).
- Priya Anand, F.S. Nandel and U.H.E. Hansmann, The Alzheimer's beta amyloid (Abeta{1-39}) monomer in an implicit solvent, J. Chem. Phys., 128 (2008) 165102.
- Priya Anand, F.S. Nandel and U.H.E. Hansmann, Conformational study of Alzheimer’s Aß Wild Type peptide and Flemish mutant. Proceedings of From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology (CBSB08), NIC Series, Vol 40, 149-152, SBN:978-3-9810843-6-8, (2008).
- Priya Anand and F. S. Nandel , Conformational Study of Amyloid Beta (Aß15-42,Aß1-16) Proceedings of From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology (CBSB07), NIC Series, Vol.36, , 239-241. ISBN:978-3-9810843-2-0, (2007).
- Priya Anand, B.Nehru, Alterations in glutathione system in adult and pup rat brains following chronic Aluminum exposure,Indian Journal of occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol 10, Issue-3,Pg 129-132 (2006).
- B.Nehru, Priya Anand, P.Pipilani, P.Gupta, Comparison of 1-(2-naphthyloxymethylcarbonyl) pyrrolidine, PP-20/DPJ, newly synthesized compound with the nootropic drug piracetam: in normal and aluminum induced neurotoxic state, Environmental and Toxicological Chemistry, 88(2):301-30 (2006).
- B.Nehru and Priya Anand, Oxidative damage following chronic aluminium exposure in adult and pup rat brains,J Trace Elem Med Biol.19(2-3):203-8 (2005).