Arjun Krishnan

My job here

I'm a Short-term Research Worker here interested in Structural & Systems Biology. I'm currently working on the TIM barrel [math]\displaystyle{ (\alpha/\beta)8 }[/math] fold - probabaly the most functionally versatile protein scaffold, adopted by enzymes catalyzing a wide variety of reactions. This, & the lack of any substantial sequence homology between the proteins belonging to this fold family motivate work in the direction of deciphering the structural principles common to these proteins.

Interests

Research

• Modeling and simulation of biochemical networks
• Topological & dynamic properties of robust networks
• Cancer Biology (see talks n articles below)
• Structural Biology
• Molecular Evolution
• Gene Prediction

Learning my way through...

• Swarm Intelligence
• Complex Adaptive Systems
• Self-organization
• Chaos & Fractals
• Biocomplexity
• Artificial Life

I'm an interested outsider to

• Computaional Geometry
• Bioinspired Computing
• Computational Origami

Talks n Articles

• An article my colleague and I wrote proposing a theory for caricinogenesis, considering it as an evolving disease.
• Here's a talk I gave in the lab on Cancer Systems

I'm a...

Final year student of Ind. Biotechnology (B.Tech) at the Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai. At our centre, I worked with Prof. Gautam at the Computational Biology Lab during the final few projects. I joined the Chandra Lab at IISc for working at my under-graduate thesis. My homepage houses more about my bio, scientific inspirations & pursuits.

Contact

Arjun Krishnan
Short-term Research Worker
c/o Dr. Nagasuma Chandra
Bioinformatics Centre
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore - 560 012
INDIA

Email: arjun DOT krish AT gmail DOT com (ignore the spaces)
Phone: +91 080 2293 2469

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