Susmita Roy

Assistant Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences (DCS)
E-mail: susmita.roy [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
Development of cutting-edge computational methodologies using fundamental concepts of theoretical physical chemistry/statistical mechanics to understand nucleic acids structure-function, RNA regulation related to viral and bacterial infection; structure-function relationship of spike protein of coronavirus, chemical dynamics approaches to understand autoimmune diseases and cancer progression. (Note: Dr. Roy invites applications for regular Ph.D. programme in the coming semester, 2022.)
Academic Background:
- PhD (Physical Chemistry), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, (IISc, Bangalore), 2015, PhD Supervisor: Professor Biman Bagchi
Positions:
- Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata (current)
- Visiting Faculty, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA (2019 - 2022)
- Academic Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA (2017 - 2019)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA (2015 - 2019)
Awards and Honors:
- CRSI Young Scientist Award from Chemical Research Society of India (2021)
- Editorial Board Member of 'Frontiers' from Frontiers in Physics and Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences Journals. (2020)
- Har Govind Khorana-Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award from DBT, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India. (2019)
Selected Publications:
- Mainan, Avijit and Roy, Susmita*. 2023."Dynamic Counterion Condensation Model Decodes Functional Dynamics of RNA Pseudoknot in SARS-CoV-2: Control of Ion-Mediated Pierced Lasso Topology." Journal Of Physical Chemistry Letters, 14, 10402
- Sarkar, Raju; Singh, Rishabh K and Roy, Susmita*. 2023."Hierarchical Hydration Dynamics of RNA with Nano-Water-Pool at Its Core." Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 127, 6903
- Sangeet, Satyam; Sarkar, Raju; Mohanty, Saswat K. and Roy, Susmita *. 2022."Quantifying Mutational Response to Track the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Variants: Introducing a Statistical-Mechanics-Guided Machine Learning Method.." J. Phys. Chem. B, 126, 7895
- Ramachandran, Vysakh; Mainan, Avijit and Roy, Susmita*. 2022."Dynamic effects of the spine of hydrated magnesium on viral RNA pseudoknot structure." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 24, 24570
- Karmi, Ola; Marjault, Henri Baptiste; Bai, Fang; Roy, Susmita and al., et. 2022."A VDAC1-mediated NEET protein chain transfers [2Fe-2S] clusters between the mitochondria and the cytosol and impacts mitochondrial dynamics.." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 119, 2121491119
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