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BIO-DATA OF Prof. MANJU BANSAL

1. Name                                :     MANJU BANSAL

2. Designation                      :     Professor

3. Date & Place of Birth      :    1st. Dec. 1950, Dehradun, India

4. Nationality                         :     Indian 

5. Address                            :    Molecular Biophysics Unit

                                                      Indian Institute of Science

                                                      Bangalore 560 012, India.

6. Highest Academic Degree:  Ph. D. (1977)

 7. Field of work   :   Research & teaching of structural & computational biology

                               Specific research area: "Structure and conformational variability

                               of proteins and nucleic acids, Genome analysis:

                                Sequence Structure - Function Correlations".

 8. No. of Publications :  191 (including 93 conference abstracts)

9. Positions held (starting with current position) :

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    Position                       Institution                                                  Period

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 Professor                  Indian Institute of Science                    Since June 1998

                                  Bangalore, India

Director                    Institute of Bioinformatics                      2001-2004

                                  & Applied Biotechnology

                                    Bangalore

 Associate                Indian Institute of Science                   1993-1998

 Professor                  Bangalore, India

 Asst. Prof.                I.I.Sc., Bangalore                                1987-1993

  Lecturer                  I.I.Sc., Bangalore                                 1982-1987

 von Humboldt          European Molecular Biology                 1981-1982

   Fellow                    Laboratory, Heidelberg, FRG.

 Res. Assoc.             I.I.Sc., Bangalore                                 1977-1980 

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 10.  Academic Qualifications:

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  Degree    Year           Institution                          Subject                       Class

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   Ph.D.     1977       Indian Inst. of Science,         Molecular                          -

                                  Bangalore, India                Biophysics

   M.Sc.    1972      Osmania University,              Physics                             I

                                Hyderabad,India.                                                   Distinction     

   B.Sc.     1970      Osmania University,              Physics(spl)                      I

   (spl)                       Hyderabad, India.               Chemistry,                  2nd rank

                                                                           Mathematics

   Indian     1966      Board for Indian School       Maths., Physics                I

   School                  Certificate Examination         Chemistry,

  Certificate                                                          English,Hindi

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11.  Honours, Awards, Fellowships etc.:

  1. J.C.Ghosh Medal (1975) of Indian Institute of Science.

  2. Young Scientist Medal (1979) of Indian National Science Academy.

  3. EMBL Visiting Fellowship, June-Aug. 1982.

  4. Senior Fulbright Fellowship, Nov.1986- Apr.1987.

  5. Visiting Professor, Rutgers University, USA, June-July 1989.

  6. Visiting Consultant, N.I.H, Bethesda, USA, July - Aug 1991.  

  7. AvH Fellow, Frei Univ Berlin, Germany, Aug 91 - Jan 92.

  8. Visiting Professor, Rutgers University, USA, June-July 1993.

  9. Member, Editorial Board, Jl. Biomol. Structure & Dynamics, 1995.

 10. Member, Editorial Board, Electronic Jl. Theoretical Chemistry, 1995.

 11. Elected Member, Guha Research Conference, 1995.

 12. Elected Vice-President, Indian Biophysical Society, 1996-1999.

 13. Nominated Member, INSA Committee for IUCr, 1997-2000.

 14. Elected Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, 1997.

 15. Elected Fellow, National Academy of Sciences,  India, 1998.

 16. Founder Director, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, 2001-2004.

 17. Non-executive Member, Board of Directors, Cranes Software, since Apr 2004.

 18. Invited Member, Advisory Committee of the Protein Data Bank, USA, since June 2005.

 19. Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, SUN-COE at CDFD, Hyderabad, 2005.

 20. IUPAB Commission on Sponsored Meetings, since 2005.

 21. Astra Chair Professor, ASTRA Zeneca/IISc, 2009-2012.

 22. J.C. Bose Fellow, DST India, 2010-2015 .

 23.Member, Coordination Committee for Bioinformatics National Certification , since 2005.

 24.Member, Board of Studies in Biotechnology, Vishveshwaraya Technical Univ., 2007-2010.

 25.Elected Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, 2008.

 26.Member, Advisory Committee of the www.PDB, USA, since 2008.

 27.Member, Advisory Board, Jl. Biomol. Structure & Dynamics, since 2009.

 28.Awarded Astra-Zeneca Research Chair, IISc, 2009-2012.

 29.Awarded J.C. Bose National Fellowship, 2010-2015.

 30.Member, Scientific Advisory Board, C-CMACS, Bangalore since 2010.

 31.Awarded Alumni Medal for Excellence in Research, IISc, 2012.

 32.Member CSIR Society, 2013-2016.

 33.G N Ramachandran Lecture Award at FAOMP-IUMB,Seoul, Korea, 2018.

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