Dr. Sucharita Dey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering at IIT Jodhpur. She completed her PhD in Computational Structural Biology from Bose Institute, Kolkata, in 2013, and postdoctoral training from Cancer Science Institute Singapore and Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, from 2013 to 2021. She is a recipient of the Ramalingaswami fellowship and research grant 2021 from DBT India.

 She works in structural bioinformatics, where her research group broadly focuses on understanding the mechanisms underlying protein-protein interactions in the living cell. Her research group focuses explicitly on studying genetic variations among diverse populations and, hence, the mutational robustness of proteins. The aim is to understand disease mechanisms in the context of protein structure (specifically protein quaternary structure) variation. Her research interests also include studying the diversity and unveiling novel principles of protein-protein interactions, protein oligomerization and evolution, protein Quaternary structure prediction, identifying structural determinants of inter-subunit communication (Allostery), and designing molecules that act through an allosteric transition. Her group uses diverse computational methods to do structural analysis of bulk data. This ‘big data’ analysis on structural biology is anticipated to create a new field of ‘structuromics’ (bridging proteomics and interactomics with structural data), and her group at IIT Jodhpur would be actively contributing to it.

Email: sdey@iitj.ac.in. Phone: 0291-280-1218

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sdey-iitj/home?authuser=1