Computational Biophysics - Visiting PhD student
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Aravindhan Ganesan |
aganesan "at" swin.edu.au
+49 2461 61 8922Education
| 2007 | Master in Bioinformatics (5 Years Integ M.Sc.) at Annamalai University, India |
| 2012 | PhD, Swinburne University of Tehnology, Australia. Thesis title: “Understanding the structure-property relationships of amino acids-the building blocks of life” Supervisors: Prof. Feng Wang (Swinburne University of Technology) Prof. Paolo Carloni (GRS, Germany) Prof. Michael Brunger (Flinders University) |
Professional Career
| 2007 - 2008 | Junior Researcher Bioinformatics Laboratory, AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University, India |
| 2009 - 2011 | Research Assistant (Part-Time) to Prof. Feng Wang eChem Laboratory at Faculty of LSS, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia |
Current Research
Molecular simulations (QM and QM/MM simulations), Molecular spectroscopy, Structure based drug design and BioinformaticsScholarship & Awards
• DAAD Research Scholarships under German academic exchange service for carrying out research training/project in the German Research School of Simulation Sciences, Juelich, Germany for six months (worth EUR. 7200).• Recognized as one of the leading Indian doctoral research students in Victoria for the Victorian Government research profile available at (http://www.studymelbourne.vic.gov.au/living_in_melbourne/student-stories/aravindhan-ganesan)
• One of the six scholarships from the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, the University of Melbourne to attend the Supercomputing 2010 conference, New Orleans, USA (worth $3500).
• Awarded “Swinburne University Research Student Support Fund – 2009” for research training/project in the School of Chemical & Physical Sciences, Flinders University, South Australia (worth AUD. 1500).
• A “Postgraduate Research Scholarship” from a Vice-Chancellor’s research grant awarded to Professor. Feng Wang at the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
• Financial support from the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Antimatter-Matter studies.
• Awarded a “Junior Research Fellowship” from the Bioinformatics Research Laboratory, AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University, India between November 2007-September-2008 for a Department of Information Technology, India sponsored Bioinformatics Research Project.
Publications
• Aravindhan Ganesan and Feng Wang, ‘Intramolecular interactions of L-phenylalanine revealed by inner shell chemical shift of model molecules’, J. Chem. Phys., 131, 044321 (2009) [Selected for a special issue of JCP: BioChemical Physics in July 2009].• Aravindhan Ganesan, Michael Brunger and Feng Wang, ‘Influence of the functional groups on the Cα-Cβ chain of L-phenylalanine and its derivatives’, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A, 619, 143 (2010).
• Aravindhan Ganesan and Feng Wang, Intramolecular interactions of L-phenylalanine: valence ionization spectra and orbital momentum distributions of its fragment molecules”, J. Comput. Chem., 32, 525 (2011) [ERA Ranking: A].
• Aravindhan Ganesan, Feng Wang, Michael Brunger and Kevin Prince, ‘Effects of alkyl side chains to the properties of the aliphatic amino acids probed using quantum chemical calculations’, J. Synchroton Rad., 18, 733 (2011).
• Aravindhan Ganesan, Emiliano Ippoliti, Jens Dreyer, Paolo Carloni and Feng Wang, ‘QM/MM simulations of Phenylalanine in water’ [In Preparation, 2011].
• Aravindhan Ganesan, Jens Dreyer, Emiliano Ippoliti, Julen Larrucea, Jaakko Akola, Paolo Carloni and Feng Wang, ‘Effects of Cu2+ on the structures of L-phenylalanine under the micro-solvated environment: A CPMD investigation’ [In Preparation, 2011].
• Aravindhan Ganesan, Michael Brunger and Feng Wang, ‘‘Push and Pull’ Natures of aliphatic amino acids in gas and solvent phase: a theoretical vibrational circular dichroism & Raman optical activity investigation’ (To be submitted, 2011).
• Narges Mohanomdi, Aravindhan Ganesen, F. Wang, et al., Journal of Raman spectroscopy (To be submitted, 2011).
• G. Aravindhan, R. Sathish Kumar, K. Subha, T.K.Subazini, Alpana Dey, Krishna Kant and G. Ramesh Kumar "AIM-BLAST-AJAX Interfaced Multisequence Blast", Proteomics Insights, 2, 9 (2009).
• G. Aravindhan, G. Ramesh Kumar, R. Sathish Kumar and K. Subha "AJAX Interface: A Breakthrough in Bioinformatics Web Applications", Proteomics Insights, 2, 1 (2009).
• G. Ramesh Kumar, G. Aravindhan, T. K. Subazini, R. Sathis Kumar “Bioinfotracker: A novel system for advanced genome functional insight” J. Bioinform. Seq. Anal. 1(3), 046 (2009).
• K. Subha, G. Ramesh Kumar, R. Rajalakshmi and G. Aravindhan “A novel strategy for mechanism based computational drug discovery”, Biomarkers in Cancer, 2, 35. (2010).