Pragya Chohan

Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biochemistry Unit Dept. of Biochemistry University of Oxford South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3QU U.K. Telephone: 01865 613304 Fax: 01865 613238 e-mail: pragya.chohan@bioch.ox.ac.uk

Hydrophobic transport in Gram negative bacteria
Research
My research is focused on studying how Gram negative bacteria transport hydrophobic substrates across their outer membrane outer membrane. I use coarse-grained and atomistic molecular dynamics simulations to do so. I am also interested in studying permeation of molecules across bilayers and how the outer membrane of Gram negative bacteria add to the barrier Background
I graduated with Honours as a B.Tech in 2006 followed by a M.Tech in Medical Biotechnology in 2008. I tried many fields from Genomics and Proteonomics to Systems Biology to Medical Instrumentation before ariving at Compuational Biology during my research project with Dr Sanjib Senapati at IIT Madras. I joined the Sansom group as a D.Phil student in 2009 after completing an year of work in consultancy.
Publications
Simulation Studies of the Outer Membrane Aromatic Transporters TodX. Pragya Chohan, Mark SP Sansom (Biochemical Society, 2011). Large scale conformational changes in aromatic transporters in presence of benzene. Pragya Chohan, Mark SP Sansom (Young Modellers Forum, 2010).

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Hydrophobic transport in Gram negative bacteria