Professor A. Jeyaprakash Arulanandam

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Personal Chair of Structural BiologyCo-Head, Institute of Cell Biology

Biography

• PhD 2004 (with Prof. M. Vijayan) Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA
• Nov 2004 - Oct 2007 Postdoctoral research at EMBL-Heidelberg (with Dr. Elena Conti), GERMANY
• Nov 2007 - Dec 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MPI Martinsried (with Prof. Elena Conti), GERMANY
• Since Jan 2012 Wellcome Trust Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK

Awards and honours

• MPIB (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) Junior Research Award 2008 for outstanding research in Biochemistry & Structural Biology
• Marie-Curie Incoming International (European Commission) Fellow (2005-2007)
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (2004-2005)
• EMBO World Programme Fellow (2004)
• IUPAB (International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics) travel fellow to present the work at the IUPAB congress 2002, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Recipient of the Einstein award from The American college, Madurai, India for proficiency in physics (1998)
• Since Jan 2012 Wellcome Trust Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK