Rahul Roy
Associate Professor
Phone : +91-80-2293 3115 (O)
E-mail: rahulroy@iisc.ac.in
Website: https://nanobiology.nanobiophotonics.org/
Research Interests:
Single molecule biophysics, Metagenomics, Diagnostics, Microfluidics and Virology
Educational History
Research Associate, Harvard University, USA (2011- 2012)
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, USA (2008- 2011)
PhD: Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA 2007
Bachelors: B Tech, Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, INDIA 2001
Courses offered
CH248: Molecular Systems Biology
CH249: Structural and Functional DNA Nanotechnology
CH206: Seminar Course
CH249: Structural and Functional DNA Nanotechnology
CH206: Seminar Course
Awards / Honours / Affiliations
- Wellcome Trust / DBT Intermediate Fellowship, India (2013)
- Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award, Department of Biotechnology, India (2013)
Publications
- S Jagtap, et al. “Evolutionary dynamics of dengue virus in India“ PLoS Pathogens 19(4): e1010862. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010862 (2023)
- Priyanka V, and R Roy, “Nucleic acid quantification with amplicon yield in recombinase polymerase amplification” Analytical Chemistry, doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.2c02810 (2022)
- H Chajjer, VA Rizvi and R Roy, “Life cycle process dependencies of positive-sense RNA viruses suggest strategies for inhibiting productive cellular infection” Journal of the Royal Society Interface, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0401 (2021)
- J Panwar and R Roy, “Integrated Field’s metal microelectrodes based microfluidic impedance cytometry for cell-in-droplet quantification” MicroE Engineering, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mee.2019.111010 (2019)
- P Sathyanarayana, S Maurya, ABehera, M Ravichandran, SS Visweswariah, KG Ayappa, and R Roy, “Cholesterol promotes Cytolysin A activity by stabilizing the intermediates during pore formation” PNAS (USA), 115 (31) E7323-E7330, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721228115 (2018)