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Seeking postdoctoral researcher with expertise in molecular biology, biophysics, and/or data analysis

We are a part of the Department of Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science. Our group is working at the interface of biology and physics. Our interest is to develop novel imaging tools that enable us to understand the fundamentals of biological phenomena.

  • We use state-of-the-art single-molecule techniques to investigate enzymes that copy, protect, and compact our genome. These mechanistic details will be applied to understand the effects of antiviral and antibiotics on enzyme kinetics.
  • We develop multiplexed imaging approaches based on DNA-PAINT super-resolution imaging and apply them to understand cellular organization.

Key publications

  1. Shahu S. et al., Bridging DNA contacts allow Dps from E. coli to condense DNA, Nucleic Acids Res, 2024
  2. Banerjee A. et al., Single-Molecule Analysis of DNA Base-Stacking Energetics Using Patterned DNA Nanostructures, Nature Nanotechnology, 2023
  3. Banerjee, A. et al., Labeling approaches for DNA-PAINT super-resolution imaging. Nanoscale, 2023.
  4. Ganji M. et al., Real-time imaging of DNA loop extrusion by condensin, Science, 2018
  5. Kim S. H. et al., DNA sequence encodes the position of DNA supercoils, Elife, 2018

Openings

A position for a postdoc is currently available.