Two PhD Students (GATE/NET qualified or from CFTI institutes) and one Postdoc position are available. Contact Dr. Sasmal for details.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Contact:
Chemistry Building, Office 317
NH-62 Nagaur Road
Karwar, Jodhpur, RJ 342 037
Email: sasmal@iitj.ac.in
Phone: (+91)-291-280-1314 (Office)
(+91)-992-813-7008 (Mobile)
Online Profiles:
7/2023-Present Associate Professor of Chemistry, IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
6-12/2022 Visiting Faculty, School of Molecular Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
9/2019-6/2023 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
2018-2019 Postdoctoral Fellow at Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA (With Prof. Tijana Rajh)
2015-2018 Postdoctoral Fellow at Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, IL, USA (With Prof. Jun Huang)
2013-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow at Bowling Green State University, OH, USA (With Prof. H. Peter Lu)
2012 Visiting PhD Student, RIKEN, Japan (Under Professor Tahei Tahara)
2012 PhD in Physical Chemistry at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, WB, India (Supervisor: Prof. Kankan Bhattacharyya)
2007 MSc in Chemistry (Physical Chemistry Specialization), Vidyasagar University
2005 BSc (Hons.) in Chemistry, Medinipur College, Vidyasagar University
2016 Chicago Biomedical Consortium Postdoctoral Fellowship
2016 Ramanujan Fellowship
2014 Ramanujan Fellowship
2014 DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship
2012 International Travel Support from Department of Science & Technology and RSC, UK
2012 Senior Research Fellowship, CSIR
2007 Junior Research Fellowship, CSIR
2007 Qualified GATE, All India Rank - 89
"Single Molecule Imaging of T-cell Receptor and DNA Holliday Junction Dynamics", F4 Workshop, 2024, IIT Madras, Chennai, India
"Single Molecule Conformational Dynamics of T-cell Receptor and DNA Holliday Junction", OWLS 2024, IIT Mumbai, India
"Optical Microscope: Past, Present and Future", 2024, IIT Jodhpur
"Single Molecule Spectroscopy for Understanding Dynamics of T-cell Receptor and DNA Holliday Junction", 2024, IIT Jodhpur, India
"Single molecule imaging of T-cell receptor conformation Dynamics", IISER Mohali, 2023, Mohali, India
"Principle of Single-Molecule Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (smFRET) and its Application in Molecular Biology" 2022, Hamilton College, NY, USA
“Single-molecule Imaging of T Cell Receptor Dynamics” 2020, JIS Kolkata, India
“Recent Advances in Single Molecule Imaging” 2020, North Bengal University, India
"T-cell receptor confomation dynamics by single-molecule imaging", 2019, IIT Jodhpur, India
"T-cell receptor confomation dynamics by single-molecule imaging", 2018, IISER Berhampur, India
"Single-molecule imaging of T-cell receptor conformational dynamics," 2018, Argonne National Lab, USA
"T-cell receptor confomation dynamics by single-molecule imaging", 2015, Saha Institute for Necluer Physics
"T-cell receptor confomation dynamics by single-molecule imaging", 2015, S N Bose center for basic sciences, Kolkata
"T-cell receptor confomation dynamics by single-molecule imaging", 2015, Bose Institute, Kolkata
"NMDA receptor conformation dynamics by single-molecule FRET", 2014, IIT Kharagpur, India
Application of FRET to detect conformation dynamics of NMDA receptor", 2015, IIT Delhi, India
"NMDA receptor conformation dynamics by single-molecule FRET", 2014, IIT Patna, India
"NMDA receptor conformation dynamics by single-molecule FRET", 2014, IIT Bhubaneswar, India
"Lighting up single glutamate ion channel" Yale Medical School, 2014, Yale University, USA
"NMDA receptor conformation dynamics by single-molecule FRET" 2014, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
"Single-molecule study of activation and deactivation of ion-channel" NIH, 2014, USA
"Unfolding and refolding of human serum albumin by FCS" 6th CRSI-RSC Conference in Chemistry, 2012, at National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India
"Study of protein by ultrafast and single-molecule spectroscopy" 21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC-21), 2012 organized by RSC at Durham University, UK
Member, Senate (2023-2024)
Member, Core Facility Committee (2023-2024)
Faculty-in-charge, Microscope Core Facility (2019-2024)
Member, Medical Service User Committee (2021-2023)
Member, Library Committee (2021-2024)
Founding Chairman, Sunshine School (2019-2024)
Member, committee to manage Sunshine School (2024-Present)
Convener, Lab Development Committee (2020-2021)
Member, Lab Development Committee, Department of Chem. (2020-2021)