Dr Naveen Vankadari

Research Fellow
Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute
University of Melbourne

naveenis4u@gmail.com

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Awards:

  • FAOBMB Young Scientist Program fellowship, FAOBMB-IUBMB, South Korea, 2025
  • Australia Microscopy and Microanalysis Bursary Award, Australia, 2025
  • Highly Ranked Scholar in Glycoproteins, ScholarGPS, USA, 2024
  • Early and Mid-Career Researcher International Travel Grant. University of Melbourne, Australia, 2024
  • International Union of crystallography (IUCr) Conference grant, Australia, 2023
  • NZSBMB Researcher Award: Travel award for research conference, New Zeeland, 2023
  • FAOBMB ECR Award & Travel Fellowship: 29th FAOBMB & CNBMB Conference, Australia/China, 2022
  • Recognition of Researcher Award: Department of Genetics, Osmania University, India, 2022
  • ASBMB ECR Travel Award: American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, USA, 2022

Research Activities

My research work is principally focused on events central to human infection and immunity. Specifically, I work on structural & functional studies on viral and bacterial proteins involved in infection and challenging human immunity. This has important implications for understanding the disease progression in human and provide hints towards its regulation. My current research also focused on COVID-19 and understanding of host-pathogen interactions. My research key technical areas include X-ray crystallography, Cryo-EM, Molecular dynamics, protein biochemistry and biophysical techniques (SPR, ITC, MALS, SAXS, MST, TPM). I am also expertise in DNA/RNA-Protein interactions and dissecting its functional importance with its physiological role. In particular, in the control of viral RNA replication and translation in humans.. 

Techniques/Expertise

My research key technical areas include X-ray crystallography, Cryo-EM, Cryo-ET, Molecular dynamics, protein biochemistry and biophysical techniques (SPR, ITC, MALS, SAXS, MST, EMSA, TPM) and conduct various cell based assays.

Disease Models

Virus, Mammalian cells, Bacterial cells, computational

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