CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: Rahul Pal Phone Number: Cell: (940)-536-4444

E-mail address:

PRESENT POSITION AND ADDRESS: Graduate Research Assistant (Laboratory of Dr. Gracie Vargas)

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

4.410G Research Building 21 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77550

EDUCATION:

University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas

Ph. D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology;

2010-present

University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India

Master of Science in Biochemistry, First Class

2007- 2009

The Department of Electronics and Accreditation of Computer Courses (DOEACC)

Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India, Calcutta

Post Graduate diploma in Bioinformatics, Final grade: A

2010

University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India

Bachelor of Science, Chemistry (major), Mathematics and Physics

2004-2007

PUBLICATIONS:

Papers:

1.  Structure and Energy of Non-canonical Basepairs: Comparison of Various Computational Chemistry Methods with Crystallographic Ensembles. Panigrahi S., Pal R., Bhattacharyya D. J Biomol Struct Dyn. 2011 Dec; 29(3):541-56.

Conference Proceedings:

1.  Combination of widefield fluorescence imaging and nonlinear optical microscopy of oral epithelial neoplasia. Rahul Pal;Kert Edward;Tyra Brown;Liang Ma;Jinping Yang;Susan McCammon;Massoud Motamedi;Gracie Vargas. Proc. SPIE8572, Advanced Biomedical and Clinical Diagnostic Systems XI, 85720M (March 22, 2013); doi:10.1117/12.2005144.

Posters:

1.  Multimodal Wide-field Fluorescence and Multiphoton Autofluorescence Imaging of Oral Epithelial Neoplasia. Rahul Pal, Kert Edward, Tyra Brown, Liang Ma, Jinping Yang, Susan McCammon, Massoud Motamedi, Gracie Vargas. 18th Annual Structural Biology Symposium, 2013.

2.  Widefieldfluorescence imaging and multi-photon autofluorescence microscopy of oral epithelial neoplasia. Rahul Pal, Kert Edward, Tyra Brown, Liang Ma, Jinping Yang, Susan McCammon, Massoud Motamedi, Gracie Vargas. Neuroscience and Cell Biology Research Retreat, 2013.

3.  Label-free imaging of murine liver by nonlinear optical microscopy following ionizing radiation. Rahul Pal, Maureen McCarthy, Yongjia Yu, Robert Ullrich, Gracie Vargas. Heavy Ion in Therapy and Space Radiation Symposium, Japan, 2013.

Conference Oral Presentations:

1.  Wide-field fluorescence imaging and multi-photon autofluorescence microscopy of oral epithelial neoplasia. SPIE Photonics West, 2013.

Short Projects Undertaken:

1.  “Structural Studies of all possible types of base pairs in RNA: A Crystal Structure Database Analysis”, Post graduate research trainee (with Prof. Dhananjay Bhattacharyya), Department of Biophysics, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.

2.  “Use of Gold Nano Particles in the detection of Thalassemia”, Graduate Trainee (with Prof. Anjan Dasgupta), Department of Biochemistry, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

3.  “Effect of Processing on Bitterness of Citrus Fruit Juices”, Graduate trainee (with Dr. Uma Ghosh), Department of Food technology and Biochemical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Laboratory Skills:

§  Multiphoton Microscopy, Confocal Microscopy, Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy, Wide field spectroscopy, Immunohistochemistry.

Circular Dichroism spectra studies, FRET (for studying bimolecular interactions), Techniques of purification and separation of biological macromolecules using gel filtration, ion exchange, thin layer and paper chromatography.

 Biochemical assays, immuno precipitation, Western Blotting.

SDS-PAGE, PCR, Isolation genomic and plasmid DNA from cells, transfection and transformation of cells with transgenic constructs, expression of heterologous protein in cells, protein purification.

Mammalian cell culture, microorganisms’ culture and their staining, microbiological assay of antibiotics, and determining their MIC against bacteria, cell based assays.

Spectrophotometric analysis, general biochemical analysis, food analysis, determination of Enzymatic activity, Immunodiffusion Assay & Immuno electrophoresis.

Estimation of clinical parameters in human serum/plasma.

AWARDS:

2010: Foreign study fellowship, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India, awarded to qualifying students on securing admission in a foreign university.

2010: Qualified GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) fellowship.

COMMUNITY SERVICE:

WITHIN the BMB Graduate Program in UTMB:

Ø  Secretary, Biological Chemistry Student Organization (2011-2012)

Ø  Member, BMB Student Recruitment Committee (2011-present)

Ø  Member, BMB New Student Orientation Committee (2011-present)

Ø  Webmaster, BCSO website (2011-present)