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Resume of Mohan Madan Babu
| Name | Madan Babu (firstname)
Mohan (surname)
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| Contact Address | MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Hills Road, Cambridge - CB2 2QH
England, United Kingdom
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| Permanent Address | C5 Anand Bhavan
26 South Boag Road
T. Nagar, Chennai - 600017
India
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| Nationality | Indian |
| Date of Birth | 14th Nov 1979 |
| Contact Phone | +44 - (0)1223 - 402041 (Lab)
0044 - 7789838481 (Mobile)
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| Fax | 44 - 01223 - 213556 (MRC-LMB) |
| Email | [email protected] |
| Webpage | www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/genomes/madanm |
Academic Background
| Course | Authority | Year | Mark/Grade/Remarks |
| X standard | Board of Matriculation Education, TN | Mar 1995 | 1028/1100 (93.45%) State 3rd Rank |
| XII Standard | Board of Secondary Education, TN | Mar 1997 | 1153/1200 (96.08%) | |
| B. Tech (Industrial Biotechnology) | Anna University, Centre for Biotechnology | Aug 1997 to May 2001 | CGPA: 9.8/10 (3.92/4.00)
University First / Gold Medallist | |
| PhD (Computational Molecular Biology) | University of Cambridge/MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Oct 2001 - | LMB-Cambridge Fellowship
Trinity Honorary External Research Studentship | |
Academic Awards
- Visiting fellow at the NCBI, NIH for two months from 5th Aug -
28th Sep 2002
- ESF bursary of 600 Euros to attend "Genome to Life" summer school in Corsica, France (Jul 15th - 27th 2002)
- DIMACS student travel award of $300 to attend DIMACS 2002 at Rutgers University
- ISCB Student Award of $500 for RECOMB 2002 ISCB newsletter article
- LMB-Cambridge Fellowship for the course of my PhD at MRC-LMB / University of Cambridge (from Oct 2001)
- Honorary External Research Studentship for three years at Trinity College, Cambridge University (from Oct 2001)
- Recipient of Cambridge Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS)
- Gold Medal for securing the first position in the University (Industrial Biotechnology - CGPA - 9.8/10)
- Indian Institute of Science - Young Fellow from 1997 till the duration of the undergraduate course (3 years)
- Indian Academy of Sciences - Summer Research Fellowship during 1999 & 2000
- Selected for National Merit Scholarship based on XII std performance
- Cash awards from Association of Matriculation Schools for 3rd rank in the state in Matric Exam
- Cash award from Nesarathnam Educational Trust for 3rd rank in the state in Matric Exam
- Shield from M.CT.M HSS for first in the school and for 3rd rank in the state in Matric Exam
- Award from Rotary club for 3rd rank in the state in Matric Exam
Research Publications
- Loss of sigma factors could have initiated pseudogene accumulation in the Mycobacterium leprae genome - M. Madan Babu*. Trends in Microbiology, in press PDF, Supplementary material.
- Evolution of Transcription Factors and the Gene Regulatory Network in E. coli - M. Madan Babu* and Sarah A. Teichmann.
Nucleic Acids Research, in press.
- Functional Determinants of Transcription Factors: Protein Families and Binding Sites - M. Madan Babu* and Sarah. A. Teichmann. Trends in Genetics in press PDF, Supplementary
material.
- Conservation of coregulation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes - Sarah Teichmann and M. Madan Babu Trends in Biotechnonology PDF
- DOLOP - Database of Bacterial Lipoproteins - M. Madan Babu and Krishnan Sankaran. Bioinformatics PDF
- Shigella apyrase - a novel variant of bacterial acid phosphatases? - M. Madan Babu, S. Kamalakkannan, Y.V.B.K. Subrahmanyam and Krishnan Sankaran. FEBS Letters PDF
- A C-H..O hydrogen bond stabilized polypeptide chain reversal motif at the C-terminus of helices in proteins - M. Madan
Babu, S. Kumar Singh and P. Balaram. Journal of Molecular Biology PDF
- Inventing polypeptide folds. Registering a helices and b strands using backbone C-H..O interactions - S. Kumar Singh, M. Madan Babu and P. Balaram. Proteins: Structure Function and Genetics, in press PDF.
- Conformational analysis of TIM barrel proteins in Ramachandran Space - S. Kumar Singh, M. Madan Babu and P. Balaram - manuscript in preparation.
- Growth modeling of Bacillus subtilis - M. Madan Babu, Sunil Laxman, P. Gautam, R.V. Srinivasamurthy - manuscript in preparation.
Review Articles
- Virulence factors of Bordetella pertussis - M. Madan Babu*, J. Bhargavi, S. Ranajeet Singh and S. Kumar Singh. Current Science, 2001, Vol 80 No. 12 : 1512-1522 PDF
- Protein structure determination in the aftermath of genome sequencing - M. Madan Babu and P. Balaram. Current Science, in press
- Bioinformatics of Bacterial Lipoproteins - Manuscript in preparation
General Articles
- New Strains of V. cholerae - M. Madan Babu and K. Sankaran -7th Sep 2000, The Hindu, Science and Technology Section of the Indian National Newspaper. HTML At the site
- Bioinformatics - Aid for Genetic Data Management and Drug Discovery - M. Madan Babu - Nov 2000, CSI Communications of Computer Society of India. HTML
- Computer applications in new drug discovery - M. Madan Babu and J. Bhargavi - manuscript in preparation.
- Errors in Genome Annotation - M. Madan Babu Verve 2002 (Proceedings of Biotechcellence 2002, National Level Students Symposium in Biotechnology) HTML
- Proteomics - M. Madan Babu. Verve 2001 (Proceedings of Biotechcellence 2001, National Level Students Symposium in Biotechnology)
- Antifreeze Proteins - M. Madan Babu. Verve 2001 (Proceedings of Biotechcellence 2001, National Level Students Symposium in Biotechnology)
- Bioinformatics - M. Madan Babu. Verve 2000 (Proceedings of Biotechcellence 2000, National Level Students Symposium in Biotechnology) HTML
Posters Presented
- A Novel C-H..O hydrogen bond stabilized polypeptide chain reversal motif at the C-terminus of helices in proteins - 19th
October 2001, MRC-LMB PDF
Publications in Conference Proceedings
- Integrating Bioinformatics, Medical Sciences and Drug Discovery - M. Madan Babu - accepted for presentation at the National Conference on Medical Informatics at Vijayawada, held during 24-25 Nov 2000. PDF
Undergraduate (B. Tech) Thesis
- Analysis of C-H...O hydrogen bonding in helix terminus - Chapter I PDF
- DATE - Database of TIM barrel enzymes - Chapter II PDF
- Target selection for structural genomics and the structural status for the completed microbial genomes - Chapter III PDF
- Computational identification of Chorismate mutase in the M. leprae genome - Chapter IV PDF
Summer Project Reports and Other Projects
- Misannotation of TIM in P.falicparum genome HTML
- TIM barrel analysis HTML
- Analysis of CH...O hydrogen bonding in protein crystal structures HTML
- Molecular Modeling of a b-hairpin peptide using NMR derived restrains HTML
- DNA Shuffling of Cry proteins HTML
- CobA, a red fluorescent reporter based bioassay of nisin HTML
Invited Talks
- Unix for Beginners at MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology during Nov 2001 HTML handout
- Telnet, FTP for Beginners at MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology during Nov 2001 HTML handout
- Protein Sequence Analysis and Biological Databases - National workshop on Bioinformatics in TNVC, chennai, India during May 2001 HTML Presentation
- PERL for Biologists - Invited lecture for 3 days at DSQ Biotech, Bangalore, India during Apr 2001
- Introduction to Biological Databases - National workshop on Bioinformatics held in TNVC, Chennai, India during Dec 2000
- Co-ordinator and Instructor for the hands on session in the 3 day national workshop on Bioinformatics organized by the Bioinformatics Center at CBT, Anna University, Chennai, India during Nov 24-26, 2000 PDF handout
Professional Memberships
- Student Member in Society for General Microbiologist, UK
- Student Member in Society of Biological Chemists, India
- Student Member in Computer Society of India, India
- Member in APBioNet, Singapore
Other Activities
Editor of Verve - Proceedings of Biotechcellence 2000 (National level students technical symposium)
Participated in a workshop on "Bioinformatics in Drug Discovery" at IISc, Bangalore on April 23-25, 2000
Website designer for Biotechcellence 2000
Website designer for the Cancer Biology Course at the Center for Biotechnology, Anna University
Member in the Editorial Board of Verve - Proceedings of Biotechcellence 1999
Volunteer during Indian Science Congress-99
Member in the Organizing Committee of National Science Day-99
Referees
Dr. Sarah Teichmann - PhD Supervisor
MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Hills Road Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK
[email protected]
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Dr. Cyrus Chothia - Assessor
MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Hills Road Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK
[email protected]
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Prof. P. Balaram
Molecular Biophysics Unit
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore - 560012, India
[email protected] |
Dr. K. Sankaran
Center for Biotechnology
Anna University
Chennai - 600025, India
[email protected] |
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