Ajit Singh Dhaunchak

EDUCATION

College / University

Panjab University, Chandigarh

Highest Degree

Bachelor of Science (Honours)

Major Subjects

Biophysics

Country

India

Lab Experience

Biophysical and biochemical techniques in protein purification, chromatography, electrophoresis, southern blotting, immunoblotting, polyclonal antibody production and collection; plasmid isolation and transformation, radioisotope handling and organ scanning, biological half life determination, determination of binding sites on proteins, uv-visible and esr spectroscopy, mutarotation, action potential propagation and other molecular biophysics techniques.

Scholarships / Awards

2001 – 2002:

Hellma Stipend

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS AND GOALS

I am interested to pursue my research by using molecular biophysics in neurosciences, like X-RAY diffraction, NMR, fluorescence and protein structure determination and I am highly interested in working on molecular aspects of neuroscience. I would like to investigate the various protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions occuring at synapse and cell surface. And I would also like to investigate the molecular events occuring at pre- and post- synaptic terminals following the release of neurotransmitter and impulse conduction. I would also like to investigate various protein-protein interactions taking place within the cell.