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Mailing Address			Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, ECIL Road, Nacharam Hyderabad- 500076, AP, India Phone: +91-(040) 27171442 Fax: +91-(040) 27155610/ 27155479 Email: shekhar@cdfd.org.in shekhar_mande@hotmail.com
Date of birth			5-April-1962
Nationality			Indian
Educational qualifications
	S. No.	Degree		University	Year	Subjects
	1.	B. Sc.		Nagpur University, Nagpur	1982	Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
	2.	M. Sc.		Nagpur University, Nagpur	1984	Physics (X-rays & Electronics)
	3.	Ph. D.		Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	1991	Molecular Biophysics Title of the Thesis: “Structural Studies on Peanut Lectin” Supervisor: Prof. M. Vijayan

Employment:

Dec 1991- Nov 1992

Post-doctoral fellow

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

In the laboratory of Prof. Wim G. J. Hol

Nov 1992- Dec 1995

Senior fellow

University of Washington, Seattle, USA

In the laboratory of Prof. Wim G. J. Hol

Dec 1995- Sept 2001

Scientist-C

Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh

Sept 2001- present

Staff Scientist

Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad

Awards, Fellowships and Memberships of professional bodies:

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Biological Sciences, 2005 (Photographs of the ceremony)

Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellow, since 2003

Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India, Elected 2003

Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, Elected 2003

B M Birla Young Scientist Award, 1999

Currently ongoing projects:

·         Structure and Function studies on M. tuberculosis heat shock proteins

                Funded by the Wellcome Trust, UK

·         Reconstructing Cellular Netowrks: Two-component regulatory systems. In collaboration with Jaya Tyagi, AIIMS; S. Krishnaswamy, MKU; Aditya Mittal, IIT-Delhi and Sarika Mehra, IIT-Mumbai

                Funded by the Department of Biotechnology

·         Preparing blue-print for macromolecular crystallography beamline at Indus-II synchrotron source

                Funded by the Department of Science and Technology

Recent conferences attended/ seminars delivered/ visits to other labs:

·         Indo-German conference on Bioinformatics, Koln, Germany, 2006 (with Dietmar Schomburg)

·         Visit to the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 2006 (with Jan Drenth)

·         Guha Research Conference, Leh, 2006 (with Muniyappa, Rangarajan & G Padmanaban)

·         CSHL-Wellcome Trust conference on Genome Informatics, Cambridge, UK, 2006 (with Sharmila)

·         Visit to the University of Cambridge, UK, 2006 (with Ben Luisi)

·         Europathogenomics workshop on Structural Genomics, Wuerzburg, Germany, 2006 (in front of Roentgen house with Akash Ranjan)

·         Nature Asia-Pacific symposium to celebrate 20 years of Nature’s presence in Asia-Pacific, 2007 (with Sanjeev Galande, Anjali Shiras, V Sriram, Yamuna Krishnan…..)

·         Gordon Research Conference on Proteins, New Hampshire, USA, 2007 (on hike with Raghavan Varadarajan)

Shekhar C. Mande

Ph. D., FASc, FNASc

Staff Scientist-VI, CDFD, Hyderabad, and

Adjunct Professor of Biotechnology, University of Hyderabad

University