Rabi Majumdar - Department of Biotechnology

Professor

Professor Rabi Majumdar, Advisor

rabim1940@hotmail.com

Prof. Rabi Majumdar was born in 1940. He was trained as a Theoretical Physicist and received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Delhi in 1966. Later he switched his research interest to interdisciplinary areas like Quantum Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics. Since 1980, his scientific publications were centered on the mechanism of action of chemical carcinogens and the nature of structural variations in DNA. Prof. Majumdar was in the faculty of the University of Delhi during 1966-1982 and later joined Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata in 1983. He served the Institute as Professor and Head, Biophysics Division during 1993-2000. Later in 2000, Prof. Majumdar was appointed CSIR Emeritus Scientist in the Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology & Genetics at the University of Calcutta for 5 years, where he had designed a course on Theoretical Biophysics and was involved in Biophysics teaching at the M.Sc. level. He is currently an Advisor at WBUT. Prof. Majumdar has visited many research institutions abroad and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prof. Majumdar was President, Indian Biophysical Society during 2001-2003. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI).

Last Five Publications:

1.	D. Bhattacharyya, S. Kundu, A.R. Thakur and R. Majumdar Sequence directed flexibility of DNA and the role of cross-strand hydrogen bonds, J. Biomol. Struct. Dynam. 17, 289 (1999).

2.	S. Kundu, D. Bhattacharyya, A. R. Thakur and R. Majumdar Nucleosomal positioning and genetic divergence study based on DNA flexibility map, J. Biomol. Struct. Dynam. 18, 527 (2001).

3.	D. Bhattacharyya and R. Majumdar Structural basis of DNA flexibility, Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 38, 16 (2001).

4.	A.K. Dasgupta, R. Majumdar and D. Bhattacharyya Characterization of non-planar peptide groups in protein crystal structures, Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 41, 233 (2004).

5.	Soumalee Basu, R. Majumdar, G. K. Das and D. Bhattacharyya Energy barriers and rates of tautomeric transitions in DNA bases: ab initio quantum chemical study, Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 42, 378 (2005).