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May 6, 2020

Dr. Tanusree Sengupta – Assistant Professor

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Dr. Tanusree Sengupta – Assistant Professor

Chemistry

Dr. Tanusree Sengupta
M.Sc, PhD

Assistant Professor

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Office Extn: 238

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Education

  • BSc, Chemistry, Scottish Church College, Calcutta University, Kolkata, 2000
  • MSc, Chemistry, Calcutta University, Kolkata, 2002
  • PhD, Biochemistry, Bose Institute, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2008

Professional Experience

  1. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, SSN College of Engineering, 2016-till date
  2. DBT-BioCARe Fellow, Dept. of Biotechnology, IIT Madras, 2013-2016
  3. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics, UNC at Chapel Hill, USA, 2009 – 2012
  4. Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, USA, 2007- 2009

Research Interest

  • Protein purification and characterization (structural and functional)
  • Peptide-lipid interaction

Professional Recognition:

  • Recipient of ‘Reach the World’ travel grant to present paper in ISTH (International Society on Thrombosis &Haemostasis) meeting 2022 and 2017 held in London and Berlin respectively.
  • DBT-BioCARe Fellowship by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India
  • CSIR-NET Fellowship, 2001 December.

External Funded Project and Consultancy

  • “Characterization of Novel Mutants of Human Protein Z-dependent Protease Inhibitor (ZPI): Potential Therapeutics for Hemophilia” funded by DST-SERB, Department of Science & Technology. Govt of India. (2022 Feb-2025 Feb) in the CRG (Core Research Grant) category. Sanctioned amount: Rs 60.46 lakh jointly with IIT Madras.
  • “Role of PZ-ZPI anticoagulant system on COVID-19 associated coagulopathy”. Google Cloud Research credit was awarded for 365 days by Google Cloud Research credits Program for carrying out computational work on the above mentioned project (Jun 2021-June 2022).
  • “Understanding the Structure Function Relationship of the Natural Anticoagulant ZPI, a Member of Serpin Superfamily”-funded by DST-SERB, Department of Science & Technology. Govt of India. (2018 Jun-2022 Jan) in the ECR (Early Career Research) category. Sanctioned amount: 34.62 lakh.

Recent Publication

  • Mirdha L, Sengupta T, Chakraborty H. Lipid composition dependent binding of apolipoprotein E signal peptide: Importance of membrane cholesterol in protein trafficking. Biophysical Chemistry.2022, 291, 106907.
  • Chellam Gayathri S, Gupta S, Suresh A, Senapati S, Sengupta T. Effect of variations in the conserved residues E371 and S359 on the structural dynamics of protein Z dependent protease inhibitor (ZPI): a molecular dynamic simulation study. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 2022, 40(14), 6405-6414.
  • Sengupta T, Majumder R, Majumder S. Role of vitamin D in treating COVID-19- associated coagulopathy: problems and perspectives. Molecular Cellular Biochemistry. 2021, 476, 2421-2427.
  • Sengupta T, Koklic T, Lentz BR, Majumder R. Phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine regulate the structure and function of FVIIa and its interaction with soluble tissue factor.Bioscience Reports.2021, 41 (2), BSR20204077.
  • Chatterjee S,Sengupta T, Majumder S, Majumder R. COVID 19: A Probable Role of the Anticoagulant Protein S in Managing COVID-19-Associated Coagulopathy. Aging. 2020, 12, 15954-61.