Priyanka Nath

Assistant Professor

MIT School of Bioengineering Sciences & Research, MIT-ADT University, Pune

priyanka.nath@mituniversity.edu.in

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-priyanka-nath-6b9093119

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=28v8gFIAAAAJ

Dr. Priyanka Nath has obtained her Ph. D in Biosciences and Bioengineering from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. She is a gold medallist in 5 year integrated Masters in Biosciences and Bioinformatics from Tezpur Central University. She has experience of working in various projects funded by different government agencies including DBT and DST. She has published 9 research articles in peer reviewed journals. Her research expertise includes Protein engineering and Structure-function relationship in active biomolecules using bioinformatics approach. She was awarded DST Inspire fellowship from Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India on April 2015.

Qualifications
  • 5 year Integrated MSc in Biosciences and Bioinformatics from Tezpur University
  • Ph.D Biosciences and Bioengineering from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati with specializations in Protein engineering and Structural Bioinformatics
Experience
Teaching 1 years
Research 5 years
Career Highlights

Professional Experience

  • Teaching expertise in Bioprogramming, Genomics and Proteomics, Molecular modeling, Computer aided drug designing and Advanced structural bioinformatics.
  • Project supervisor at undergraduate and postgraduate level

Awards and Honor

  • Awarded Gold medal in five-year Integrated Master’s degree examination in Bioscience and Bioinformatics in the year 2014
  • Awarded DST Inspire fellowship from Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India on April 2015.
  • Best poster award in “56th International Annual Conference of Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI)” organized by Jawaher Lal Nehru University, New Delhi during December 7-10, 2016.

Specialization

  • Her research interests is related to enzyme engineering of high value biocatalytic and therapeutic enzymes from bacteria using molecular and structural biology approaches.

Publications

  • Nath, P., Dhillon, A., Kumar, K., Sharma, K., Jamaldheen, S. B., Moholkar, V. S., & Goyal, A. (2019). Development of bi-functional chimeric enzyme (CtGH1-L1-CtGH5-F194A) from endoglucanase (CtGH5) mutant F194A and β-1, 4-glucosidase (CtGH1) from Clostridium thermocellum with enhanced activity and structural integrity. Bioresource Technology, 282, 494-501.
  • Nath, P., Sharma, K., Kumar, K., & Goyal, A. (2020). Combined SAXS and computational approaches for structure determination and binding characteristics of Chimera (CtGH1-L1-CtGH5- F194A) generated by assembling β-glucosidase (CtGH1) and a mutant endoglucanase (CtGH5- F194A) from Clostridium thermocellum. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 148, 364-377.
  • Nath, P., Maibam P.D., Singh, S., Rajulapati, V & Goyal, A. (2020). Sequential pretreatment of sugarcane bagasse by alkali and organosolv for improved delignification and cellulose saccharification by chimera and cellobiohydrolase for bioethanol production. 3 Biotech, 11, 1-16.
  • Nath, P., & Goyal, A. (2021). Structure and dynamics analysis of multi-domain putative β-1, 4-glucosidase of family 3 glycoside hydrolase (PsGH3) from Pseudopedobacter saltans. Journal of Molecular Modeling, 27(4), 1-16.
  • Nath, P. (2023). “Artificial neural network and its biological significance: A review”. CSMU Journal of Advanced Studies and Research, Vol. 01; Issue 01.
  • Kumar, K., Nath, P., and Goyal, A. (2018). Structural characterization of an endo β-1, 3-glucanase of family 81 glycoside hydrolase (CtLam81A) from Clostridium thermocellum. Journal of Proteins & Proteomics, 9(3).
  • Nedumaran, M., Singh, S., Jamaldheen, S. B., Nath, P., Moholkar, V. S., & Goyal, A. (2020). Assessment of combination of pretreatment of Sorghum durra stalk and production of chimeric enzyme (β-glucosidase and endo β-1, 4 glucanase, (CtGH1-L1-CtGH5-F194A) and cellobiohydrolase (CtCBH5A) for saccharification to produce bioethanol. Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology, 1-14.
  • Singh, S., Kumar, K., Nath, P., & Goyal, A. (2020). Role of glycine 256 residue in improving the catalytic efficiency of mutant endoglucanase of family 5 glycoside hydrolase from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SS35. Biotechnology and Bioengineering.
  • Gavande, P. V., Nath, P., Kumar, K., Ahmed, N., Fontes, C. M., & Goyal, A. (2022). Highly efficient, processive and multifunctional recombinant endoglucanase RfGH5_4 from Ruminococcus flavefaciens FD-1 v3 for recycling lignocellulosic plant biomasses. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biological Archives 9(3):53-59.

Conferences

  • Presented a poster entitled “Identification of promising functional residues capable of introducing endoxylanase activity into an exo-acting arabinofuranosidase (Ct43Araf) with enhanced activity: An in silico approach” in “56th International Annual Conference of Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI)”, December 7-10, 2015, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi (Best Poster award)
  • Presented a poster entitled “Protein engineering of endo β-1-4 glucanase (CtGH5) from Clostridium thermocellum by site-directed mutagenesis for development of mutant with enhanced activity” in “Bioprocessing India, Recent Trends in Bioprocessing for Healthcare, Energy and Environment” Dec 9- 11, 2017, IIT Guwahati, Assam India.
  • Presented a poster entitled “Construction and characterization of chimeric enzyme developed by fusing β-glucosidase (CtGH1) and endoglucanase (CtGH5-F194A) both from Clostridium thermocellum for enhanced catalytic efficiency and thermostability” in “International Conference on Biotechnological Research and Innovation for Sustainable Development” 15th BRSI convention. CSIR- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT), Nov. 22-25, 2018, Hyderabad, India.
  • Presented a poster entitled “Combined SAXS and computational approaches for structure determination and binding characteristics of chimera (CtGH-L1-CtGH5-F194A) generated by assembling βglucosidase (CtGH1) and a mutant endoglucanase (CtGH5-F194A) from Clostridium thermocellum. ” in “88th SBC(I) Annual Meeting”, Oct 31- Nov 3, 2019, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
  • Presented a poster entitled “Protein engineering of β-1,4-endoglucanase and Chimera construction with β-glucosidase from Clostridium thermocellum for improving ligno-cellulosic biomass saccharification and bioethanol production”in “Research Conclave”, March 19-22, 2020, IIT Guwahati, Assam.

Workshops

  • Participated and contributed in the scientific writing and speed sparring workshop organized by IHEDelft and BioSD-2018 at CSIR- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT), November 22nd 2018, Hyderabad, India.
  • Participated in the Seminar/Workshop on “Evolutionary Genomics” organized by Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF), Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tezpur University, February 14th-17th 2014, Tezpur, Assam.
  • Participated in the Workshop on “Cell Culture Techniques” organized by Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tezpur University, March 28th-31st, 2014, Tezpur, Assam.
  • Participated in the DBT-BIF Workshop on “Web-server: Application as Bioinformatics Tool for Genome and Proteome Analysis” organized by Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF), Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tezpur University, March 30th-31st, 2013, Tezpur, Assam.
  • Participated in the DBT-BIF Workshop on “Recent Advances in Microbial Biotechnology and Molecular Evolution” organized jointly at Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF) and Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tezpur University, March 1st-4th, 2013, Tezpur, Assam.
  • Participated in the training on “Application of Computer in Biological Sciences” organized by Department of Zoology, Darrang college, Tezpur under Star College Scheme of DBT, Govt.of India, January 23rd-25th 2013, Tezpur, Assam.
  • Attended National Workshop on “Applied Microbiology and Bioprocess Engineering” with special reference to Petroleum Biotechnology, organized by ONGC-Centre for Petroleum Biotechnology, Tezpur University, 23rd-24th August, 2012, Tezpur, Assam.