1. Name: Pulakesh Aich

2. Email Id: pulakesh_mail@rediffmail.com / pulakesh.edu@gmail.com 

3. Highest Qualification (PG onwards): M.Sc. (Biochemistry), Ph.D.

4. Field of specialization: Biochemistry

5. Subject Teaching: Biochemistry, Medical Terminology, Epidemiology

6. Work Experiences (No of Years): 

a) Teaching Experience: 6 years

b) Research Experience: 13 years

c) Industry Experience: 1.5 years

7. Current research activities: Advanced detection of biomarkers as a predictor of diseases. 

8. Publication (best of five):

a) Pulakesh Aich, Jaeyeon An, Byeongseon Yang, Young Ho Ko, Junghyun Kim, James Murray, Hyung Joon Cha, Joon Ho Roh, Kyeng Min Park and Kimoon Kim. Self-assembled adhesive biomaterials formed by a genetically designed fusion protein. Chem. Commun., 2018,54, 12642.

b) Pulakesh Aich and Sampa Biswas. Highly conserved Arg residue of ERFNIN motif of pro-domain is important for pH induced zymogen activation process in cysteine cathepsins K and L. Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics,2018 Jun;76(1-2):219-229.

c) Bahiru Punja Benke, Pulakesh Aich, Younghoon Kim, Kyung Lock Kim, Md Rumum Rohman, Soonsang Hong, In-Chul Hwang, Eun Hui Lee, Joon Ho Roh*, and Kimoon Kim*. Iodide-Selective Synthetic Ion Channels Based on Shape-Persistent Organic Cages. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2017, 139, 7432−7435.

d) Joon Ho Roh,Madhu Tyagi, Pulakesh Aich, Kimoon Kim, R. M. Briber and Sarah A. Woodson. Charge screening in RNA: an integral route for dynamical enhancements. Soft Matter, 2015, 11, 8741-8745.

e) Chatterjee AK, Sarkar RK, Chattopadhyay AP, Aich P, Chakraborty R, BasuT. A simple robust method for synthesis of metallic copper nanoparticles of high antibacterial potency against E. coli. Nanotechnology.2012, 23, 085103-085114.

9. Patent/ Projects/ Book Chapters (If Any)

10. Conference/ Seminar/ Symposium (Any five)

i. National

ii. International

a) “A novel method for transformation of Escherichia coli cells by plasmid DNA using Calcium Phosphate Nanoparticles”, Oral presentation, Indo-US Workshop on Nanotechnology: Applications and Implications-2009, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, (IICT), Hyderabad, India. 

b) “Calcium chloride made E. coli competent for uptake of extraneous DNA through overproduction of OmpC protein”, Oral presentation, International Conference on Recent Trends on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2010, Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta, India. 

c) International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry, July 10-14, 2016, Seoul, South Korea, poster presentation on “Adaptive Self-Assembly of Recombinant Proteins for the Enhancement of Underwater Adhesion”. 

11. Professional attachment/ Membership (If any)

12. Projects Guided (No. of Students):

i. Under Graduate:

ii. Post Graduate:

iii. Ph.D Scholar: