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     Biological Chemistry Laboratory
                                     ... webpage of  Dr. Debasis Manna

Dr. Debasis Manna
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Teaching Experience

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (2009 - present)

CH 001 (B.Tech):                    
Preparatory Chemistry
CH-101 (B.Tech):                      
General Chemistry Tutorial
CH 335 (B.Tech):            
Chemical Kinetics and Electrochemistry
CH 535 (M. Sc.):                       
Physical Chemistry Laboratory
CH 628 (M. Sc.):                      
Advances in Nucleic Acid and Lipid Chemistry
CH 636 (M. Sc.):                     
Applied Biochemistry
CH 623 (Ph.D.):                        
Chemistry of Biological Macromolecules
Administrative Responsibilities    
Faculty Advisor: B.Tech.(CST) 2007, 2014 batch.

Departmental seminar coordinator (2009-2012).

Member of departmental purchase committee.

Faculty Inchage for Departmental Instrument facility (2013-17)

Warden, Dihing Hostel (2014-2018)
Debasis Manna was born in West Bengal, India. He completed his B.Sc. in Chemistry at Narendrapur Residential College, Calcutta University, India. He then moved to the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India, where he received M.Sc. degree in Physical Chemistry. He was awarded a doctoral fellowship from the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and worked under the supervision of Professor Wonhwa Cho. His thesis research work was on "Membrane Binding and Mechanistic Insights into the Phosphoinositide Interacting Protein Domains". He subsequently moved to the group of Professor Gautam Basu at the Bose Institute, Kolkata, India, to gain postdoctoral research experience in the mechanistic studies of glutamate-tRNA ligase. In 2009, he began his independent research career in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. Currently, he serves as a professor at the same institute. His current research interests focus on synthetic ion transporters and cancer immunotherapy.     
Group Activities
Awards and Fellowships

DAAD Research Stays Fellowship, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany, 2024

Young Scientist Research Award (YSRA), Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Mumbai, India, 2010.

Young Investigators Award (RGYI Scheme), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), New Delhi, India, 2010.

Research Assistant (NIH) and Teaching Assistant (Univ of Illinois at Chicago) fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, 2002-2008.

Certificate of Excellence for First Class in B.Sc. (Chemistry), Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, University of Calcutta, India, 2000.