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 $$(\alpha/\beta)8$$ 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.

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
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 * 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. Here's My Resume.

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 Back to: People