PUNEET KACKER

Email: pkacker@amity.edu

Present Address  Uttar Pradesh, INDIA.

Area of Interest: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Molecular Modeling and
                              Systems Simulations

Education:

Currently: Appointed as a faculty of Bioinformatics in Amity Institute of Biotechnology at Amity University (www.amity.edu) Noida.

Subjects undertaking:
               Computational Proteomics: MSc-Bioinformatics
               Computational Biology: BTech Bioinformatics and IMTech Biotechnology
               Internet Technologies: BSc Medical Biotech
               Introduction to IT: BTech Bioinformatics

Recent Achievement: 10 Theoretical protein Model entries submitted in PMDB (http://mi.caspur.it/PMDB/) with less than 3% stereochemical errors.
                                                                

Master of Sciences in Bioinformatics
University Institute of Engineering & Technology, CSJM University Kanpur; UP, India.June 2006
Percentage: 77.83%

Skills:

Languages: C, Python (learning)
Package     : INSIGHT II (Accelrys), Catalyst, AutoDock (Scripps Research), Gaussian,         HyperChem, AMBER, Maestro(Schrodinger).
Platforms   : IRIX 6.5., MS DOS, Linux.
Computer Systems: SGI Octane & Fuel, HP Workstations.
Experience of High Performance Computing (HPC) on Supercomputer (36 nodes) at IITD.

Projects Undertaken-

6 months CSIR project at University of Delhi-North Campus on an international patented work on drug discovery and development.

Summer Internship:

Institute: Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow, India.
Period  : June 2005 -August 2005
Topic    : Molecular Model of Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase (Putative) From Plasmodium falciparum

Institute: Indian institute of Technology, Kanpur; India
Period   : May 2006 – July 2006
Topic     : Simulation Study of Protein Adsorption on Biomaterial Surface.

Institute: University Institute of Engg. & Tech., CSJM University Kanpur.
Period  : January 2006 – May 2006
Topic    : In-silico Vaccine Design

• Years of Experience                                            Two
• E-Mail :                                                               pkacker@amity.edu