Ranjith Padinhateeri
{{short description|Indian biological physicist}}
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| birth_place = Malappuram, Kerala, India
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| fields = {{ublist | Biological physics }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | University of Illinois at Chicago | Northwestern University | Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist|Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College | University of Calicut | Indian Institute of Technology Madras | Curie Institute (Paris) }}
| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist | P. B. Sunil Kumar | {{ill|Jean-François Joanny|fr}} | David Lacoste | John F. Marko }}
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| known_for = Theoretical studies of biological phenomena
| awards = {{ublist| 2010 DBT Young Investigator Award|2012 IIT Mumbai Young Investigator Award|2013 DBT Senior Innovative Young Investigator Award|2014 IIT Mumbai Excellence in Teaching Award|2017–18 N-BIOS Prize }}
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Ranjith Padinhateeri is an Indian biological physicist and a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He is known for his biological studies using statistical mechanics, polymer physics, and soft matter theory. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2017–18.
Biography
Ranjith Padinhateeri, born in Malappuram district of the south Indian state of Kerala, did his early schooling at
AUP School Marakkara, V. V. M. Higher Secondary School and MSM HSS Kallingalparamba before joining Zamorin’s Guruvayurappan College to obtain a BSc in physics from the University of Calicut in 1997.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bio.iitb.ac.in/~ranjith/?page_id=89 |title=Curriculum Vitae - Ranjith Padinhateeri on IITB |date=2019-01-16 |language=en-US |access-date=2019-01-16}} Moving to Chennai, he earned his MSc from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2000 and continued there for his doctoral studies under the guidance of P. B. Sunil Kumar which earned him a PhD in 2005 for his thesis, Statistical mechanics of semiflexible polymers : A study of single filaments. His post doctoral training, initially, were under John F. Marko at two US universities, University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University from 2005 to 2007 when he moved to France to continue his training at the laboratories of Jean-Francois Joanny and David Lacoste of Institut Curie during 2007–09. He returned to India in 2009 to join the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai as an assistant professor where he served as an associate professor from 2014 and holds the position of professor since 2018 at the department of biosciences and bioengineering.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bio.iitb.ac.in/~ranjith/ |title=Ranjith Padinhateeri - IIT Bombay, Mumbai |date=2019-01-16 |language=en-US |access-date=2019-01-16}}
Padinhateeri is known to be involved in studies in the field of biological physics, focusing on cellular processes applying nonequilibrium approaches.{{Cite web |url=https://theory.ncbs.res.in/ranjith-padinhateeri |title=Ranjith Padinhateeri - Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines |date=2019-01-16 |website=theory.ncbs.res.in |access-date=2019-01-16}} His approach also involves employment of tools from physics such as polymer physics and soft-matter theory. He has published a number of articles;{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FWxnJn8AAAAJ&hl=en |title=Ranjith Padinhateeri - Google Scholar Citations |date=2019-01-15 |website=scholar.google.com |access-date=2019-01-15}}{{Refn|group=note|Please see Selected bibliography section}} ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 34 of them.{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/56653247_Ranjith_Padinhateeri |title=Ranjith Padinhateeri's research works |date=2019-01-15 |website=ResearchGate |language=en |access-date=2019-01-15}} He is the Professor-in-charge at the [https://www.kcdh.iitb.ac.in Koita Centre for Digital Health], IIT Bombay, since 2024.{{cite web |title=KCDH Leadership |url=https://www.kcdh.iitb.ac.in/people/kcdh-team/kcdh-leadership |website=Koita Centre for Digital Health |access-date=19 June 2025}}
Awards and honors
The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for him contributions to biosciences, in 2017–18.{{Cite web |url=http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/list-of-selected-awardees-for-NBA-2017amp-2018.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2019 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20 |archive-date=26 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226232523/http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/list-of-selected-awardees-for-NBA-2017amp-2018.pdf |url-status=dead }} He is also a recipient of Innovative Young Investigator Award of the Department of Biotechnology (2009-2010), IIT Mumbai Young Investigator Award (2012), Senior Innovative Young Investigator Award, Department of Biotechnology (2013), and Excellence in Teaching Award of IIT Mumbai (2014).
Selected bibliography
- {{Cite journal |last1=Padinhateeri |first1=Ranjith |last2=Das |first2=Dibyendu |last3=Bameta |first3=Tripti |date=2018-06-01 |title=Coupling of replisome movement with nucleosome dynamics can contribute to the parent–daughter information transfer |journal=Nucleic Acids Research |language=en |volume=46 |issue=10 |pages=4991–5000 |doi=10.1093/nar/gky207 |issn=0305-1048 |pmc=6007630 |pmid=29850895}}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Jha |first1=Narendra Nath |last2=Ranganathan |first2=Srivastav |last3=Kumar |first3=Rakesh |last4=Mehra |first4=Surabhi |last5=Panigrahi |first5=Rajlaxmi |last6=Navalkar |first6=Ambuja |last7=Ghosh |first7=Dhiman |last8=Kumar |first8=Ashutosh |last9=Padinhateeri |first9=Ranjith |date=2018-02-06 |title=Complexation of NAC-Derived Peptide Ligands with the C-Terminus of α-Synuclein Accelerates Its Aggregation |journal=Biochemistry |volume=57 |issue=5 |pages=791–804 |doi=10.1021/acs.biochem.7b01090 |pmid=29286644 |issn=0006-2960}}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Padinhateeri |first1=Ranjith |last2=Das |first2=Dibyendu |last3=Bameta |first3=Tripti |date=2017-06-23 |title=Coupling of replisome movement with nucleosome dynamics can contribute to the parent-daughter information transfer |journal=bioRxiv |volume=46 |issue=10 |language=en |pages=4991–5000 |doi=10.1101/154559|pmid=29850895 |doi-access=free |pmc=6007630 }}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Padinhateeri |first1=Ranjith |last2=Das |first2=Dibyendu |last3=Inamdar |first3=Mandar M. |last4=Jain |first4=Ishutesh |last5=Bajpai |first5=Gaurav |date=2017-01-30 |title=Binding of DNA-bending non-histone proteins destabilizes regular 30-nm chromatin structure |journal=PLOS Computational Biology |language=en |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=e1005365 |doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005365 |issn=1553-7358 |pmc=5305278 |pmid=28135276|bibcode=2017PLSCB..13E5365B |doi-access=free }}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Kar |first1=Rajesh Kumar |last2=Kharerin |first2=Hungyo |last3=Padinhateeri |first3=Ranjith |last4=Bhat |first4=Paike Jayadeva |date=2017-01-06 |title=Multiple Conformations of Gal3 Protein Drive the Galactose-Induced Allosteric Activation of the GAL Genetic Switch of Saccharomyces cerevisiae |journal=Journal of Molecular Biology |volume=429 |issue=1 |pages=158–176 |doi=10.1016/j.jmb.2016.11.005 |pmid=27913116 |issn=0022-2836|url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2015/11/18/032136.full.pdf }}
See also
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Further reading
- {{Cite web |url=https://medium.com/@ranjith.padinhateeri/finding-good-students-to-work-with-us-eeb76ff747a6 |title=Finding " good" students to work with us… |last=Padinhateeri |first=Ranjith |date=2018-05-14 |website=Ranjith Padinhateeri |access-date=2019-01-15}}
External links
- {{Cite web |url=https://dblp.org/pers/hd/p/Padinhateeri:Ranjith |title=dblp: Ranjith Padinhateeri |date=2019-01-15 |website=dblp.org |language=en |access-date=2019-01-15}}
{{N-BIOS Laureates 2010–2019}}
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Category:N-BIOS Prize recipients
Category:Scientists from Kerala
Category:University of Calicut alumni
Category:Academic staff of IIT Bombay
Category:University of Illinois Chicago alumni
Category:Northwestern University alumni