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	R. Sankararamakrishnan, who completed his early college education at the [[Madurai Kamaraj University]] in 1986, did his doctoral studies at the [[Indian Institute of Science]] and after obtaining a PhD in 1992, he moved to the UK where he did his post-doctoral research in computational biology at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name="BSBE Faculty - R.Sankararamakrishnan">{{Cite web \|url=https://www.iitk.ac.in/bsbe/r-sankararamakrishnan \|title=BSBE Faculty - R.Sankararamakrishnan \|date=2018-01-11 \|website=IIT Kanpur \|access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref> He had another stint of post-doctoral work at the [[University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]] and started his career in 1996 as an instructor (later assistant professor of research) at the [[Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai]]. In April 2002, he returned to India to join the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] (IITK) as an assistant professor and serves as a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSBE).<ref name="Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)">{{Cite web \|url=https://www.iitk.ac.in/new/dr-r-sankararamakrishnan \|title=Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE) \|last=Vishwas \|date=2018-01-11 \|website=www.iitk.ac.in \|language=en-gb \|access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref> Subsequently, he founded the Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Simulation Laboratory at IITK where he hosts several research scholars.<ref name="Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Simulation Laboratory">{{Cite web \|url=http://home.iitk.ac.in/~rsankar/ \|title=Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Simulation Laboratory \|date=2018-01-11 \|website=home.iitk.ac.in \|access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref> He also serves as a resource person for the Centre for Mathematical Biology of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)\|Department of Science and Technology]].<ref name="Resource Persons - MathBio - DST Centre for Mathematical Biology">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.math.iisc.ac.in/~mathbio/MBConfResourcePersons.php \|title=Resource Persons - MathBio - DST Centre for Mathematical Biology \|date=2018-01-11 \|website=www.math.iisc.ac.in \|access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref>		R. Sankararamakrishnan, who completed his early college education at the [[Madurai Kamaraj University]] in 1986, did his doctoral studies at the [[Indian Institute of Science]] and after obtaining a PhD in 1992, he moved to the UK where he did his post-doctoral research in [[computational biology]] at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name="BSBE Faculty - R.Sankararamakrishnan">{{Cite web \|url=https://www.iitk.ac.in/bsbe/r-sankararamakrishnan \|title=BSBE Faculty - R.Sankararamakrishnan \|date=2018-01-11 \|website=IIT Kanpur \|access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref> He had another stint of post-doctoral work at the [[University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]] and started his career in 1996 as an instructor (later assistant professor of research) at the [[Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai]]. In April 2002, he returned to India to join the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] (IITK) as an assistant professor and serves as a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSBE).<ref name="Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)">{{Cite web \|url=https://www.iitk.ac.in/new/dr-r-sankararamakrishnan \|title=Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE) \|last=Vishwas \|date=2018-01-11 \|website=www.iitk.ac.in \|language=en-gb \|access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref> Subsequently, he founded the Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Simulation Laboratory at IITK where he hosts several research scholars.<ref name="Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Simulation Laboratory">{{Cite web \|url=http://home.iitk.ac.in/~rsankar/ \|title=Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Simulation Laboratory \|date=2018-01-11 \|website=home.iitk.ac.in \|access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref> He also serves as a resource person for the Centre for Mathematical Biology of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)\|Department of Science and Technology]].<ref name="Resource Persons - MathBio - DST Centre for Mathematical Biology">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.math.iisc.ac.in/~mathbio/MBConfResourcePersons.php \|title=Resource Persons - MathBio - DST Centre for Mathematical Biology \|date=2018-01-11 \|website=www.math.iisc.ac.in \|access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref>

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'''Ramasubbu Sankararamakrishnan''' is an Indian computational biologist, bioinformatician and a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering of the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]]. He is known for his computational studies on [[membrane protein]] function. 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 2008.

== Biography ==
[[File:IISc Main Building.jpg|thumb|left|Indian Institute of Science]]
[[File:1dfj RNAseInhibitor-RNAse complex.jpg|thumb|The horseshoe shaped ribonuclease inhibitor (shown as wireframe) forms a protein–protein interaction with the ribonuclease protein]]
R. Sankararamakrishnan, who completed his early college education at the [[Madurai Kamaraj University]] in 1986, did his doctoral studies at the [[Indian Institute of Science]] and after obtaining a PhD in 1992, he moved to the UK where he did his post-doctoral research in computational biology at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name="BSBE Faculty - R.Sankararamakrishnan">{{Cite web |url=https://www.iitk.ac.in/bsbe/r-sankararamakrishnan |title=BSBE Faculty - R.Sankararamakrishnan |date=2018-01-11 |website=IIT Kanpur |access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref> He had another stint of post-doctoral work at the [[University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]] and started his career in 1996 as an instructor (later assistant professor of research) at the [[Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai]]. In April 2002, he returned to India to join the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] (IITK) as an assistant professor and serves as a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSBE).<ref name="Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)">{{Cite web |url=https://www.iitk.ac.in/new/dr-r-sankararamakrishnan |title=Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE) |last=Vishwas |date=2018-01-11 |website=www.iitk.ac.in |language=en-gb |access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref> Subsequently, he founded the Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Simulation Laboratory at IITK where he hosts several research scholars.<ref name="Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Simulation Laboratory">{{Cite web |url=http://home.iitk.ac.in/~rsankar/ |title=Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Simulation Laboratory |date=2018-01-11 |website=home.iitk.ac.in |access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref> He also serves as a resource person for the Centre for Mathematical Biology of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]].<ref name="Resource Persons - MathBio - DST Centre for Mathematical Biology">{{Cite web |url=http://www.math.iisc.ac.in/~mathbio/MBConfResourcePersons.php |title=Resource Persons - MathBio - DST Centre for Mathematical Biology |date=2018-01-11 |website=www.math.iisc.ac.in |access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
Sankaramakrishnan's research is focused on ''mechanism of membrane protein function using computational approaches''.<ref name="Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)" /> He is known to have carried out research on [[aquaporin|aquaporin genes]] in plants, [[Asx turn]]s, [[molecular dynamics|molecular dynamic]] simulations of [[protein-protein interactions]], GPCR [[peptide hormones]] as well as nonAUG start codons and AUG [[codons]].<ref name="Current Research at BSBE">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ircc.iitb.ac.in/IRCC-Webpage/PDF/IITK.pdf |title=Current Research at BSBE |date=2018-01-11 |website=IIT Kanpur |access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=L-wotv8AAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2018-01-09 |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=2018-01-09}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and [[ResearchGate]], an online repository of scientific articles has listed 98 of them.<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ramasubbu_Sankararamakrishnan |title=On ResearchGate |date=2018-01-09 |access-date=2018-01-09}}</ref> Besides, he has also contributed chapters to books published by others<ref name="Conference2006">{{cite book|author1=International Biometric Society. Indian Region. Conference|author2=R. Sankararamakrishnan (chapter author)|title=Statistical Advances in Biosciences and Bioinformatics|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=clOuA0H75iwC&pg=PA106|year=2006|publisher=Allied Publishers|isbn=978-81-7764-968-0|pages=106–|chapter=Pattern Searching in Protein and DNA Sequences}}</ref> and his articles have drawn many citations.<ref name="TonioloBrückner2009">{{cite book|author1=Claudio Toniolo|author2=Hans Brückner|title=Peptaibiotics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zMcvAXRcOAgC&pg=PA53|date=26 May 2009|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-3-906390-52-9|pages=53–}}</ref><ref name="MessinaSantangelo2002">{{cite book|author1=Giacomo Messina|author2=Saveria Santangelo|title=GNSR 2001: State of Art and Future Development in Raman Spectroscopy and Related Techniques|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JW84oFO5sR0C&pg=PA216|year=2002|publisher=IOS Press|isbn=978-1-58603-262-3|pages=216–}}</ref><ref name="BansalSrinivasan2013">{{cite book|author1=Manju Bansal|author2=N. Srinivasan|title=Biomolecular Forms and Functions: A Celebration of 50 Years of the Ramachandran Map|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CZa6CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA480|year=2013|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-4449-14-4|pages=480–}}</ref> He is the co-author of [[MIPModDB]], a database of structure models of [[Major intrinsic proteins]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gupta |first1=Anjali Bansal |last2=Verma |first2=Ravi Kumar |last3=Agarwal |first3=Vatsal |last4=Vajpai |first4=Manu |last5=Bansal |first5=Vivek |last6=Sankararamakrishnan |first6=Ramasubbu |date=2012-01-01 |title=MIPModDB: a central resource for the superfamily of major intrinsic proteins |journal=Nucleic Acids Research |volume=40 |issue=D1 |pages=D362–D369 |doi=10.1093/nar/gkr914 |pmid=22080560 |issn=0305-1048|citeseerx=10.1.1.1033.8361 |pmc=3245135}}</ref> He has also delivered invited or keynote speeches at various national and international seminars.<ref name="Plenary & Invited Speakers - ICMSEE 2018">{{Cite web |url=http://www.icmsee.in/plenary-invited-speakers/ |title=Plenary & Invited Speakers - ICMSEE 2018 |website=www.icmsee.in |language=en |access-date=2018-01-09}}</ref><ref name="Oxygen - aromatic contacts in biomolecules: a novel non-covalent integration">{{Cite web |url=http://cmm.osdd.net/gnsmmg/Group%20News.html |title=Oxygen - aromatic contacts in biomolecules: a novel non-covalent integration |date=2018-01-09 |website=IICT, Hyderabad |access-date=2018-01-09}}</ref><ref name="Speakers i International Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology -2018">{{Cite web |url=https://wbsb.iiita.ac.in/?page_id=10 |title=Speakers i International Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology -2018 |date=2018-01-11 |website=wbsb.iiita.ac.in |language=en-US |access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref>

Sankararamakrishnan is a member of the National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology,<ref name="R. Sankararamakrishnan - National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iiserpune.ac.in/~mbio/?q=nnmcb/people/r-sankararamakrishnan |title=R. Sankararamakrishnan - National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology |date=2018-01-09 |website=www.iiserpune.ac.in |language=en |access-date=2018-01-09}}</ref> an agency funded by the [[Science and Engineering Research Board]] of the Government of India for promoting scientific research and advanced training in the discipline.<ref name="National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iiserpune.ac.in/~mbio/?q=nnmcb |title=National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology |date=2018-01-11 |website=www.iiserpune.ac.in |language=en |access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref> He is also a life member of the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]], one of the three major Indian science academies.<ref name="The National Academy of Sciences, India - Life Members">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/lifemem.asp?RsFilter=S |title=The National Academy of Sciences, India - Life Members |website=www.nasi.org.in |access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref>

== 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 in 2008.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20}}</ref> He has also held the Joy Gill Chair Professorship for Young Faculty and the U.S.V. Chair Professorship of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur during 2007-2010 and 2011-2014 respectively.<ref name="Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)" />

== Selected bibliography ==
=== Chapters ===
* {{cite book|author1=International Biometric Society. Indian Region. Conference|author2=R. Sankararamakrishnan (chapter author)|title=Statistical Advances in Biosciences and Bioinformatics|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=clOuA0H75iwC&pg=PA106|year=2006|publisher=Allied Publishers|isbn=978-81-7764-968-0|pages=106–|chapter=Pattern Searching in Protein and DNA Sequences}}

=== Articles ===
* {{Cite journal |last1=Iyer |first1=Abhishek Hariharan |last2=Krishna Deepak |first2=Rama Nagesh Venkata |last3=Sankararamakrishnan |first3=Ramasubbu |date=2017-12-27 |title=Imidazole Nitrogens of Two Histidine Residues Participating in N-H…N Hydrogen Bonds in Protein Structures: Structural Bioinformatics Approach Combined with Quantum Chemical Calculations |journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry B |volume=122 |issue=3 |pages=1205–1212 |doi=10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b11737 |pmid=29278913 |issn=1520-6106}}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Krishna Deepak |first1=R.N.V. |last2=Chandrakar |first2=Brijesh |last3=Sankararamakrishnan |first3=Ramasubbu |title=Comparison of metal-binding strength between methionine and cysteine residues: Implications for the design of metal-binding motifs in proteins |journal=Biophysical Chemistry |volume=224 |pages=32–39 |doi=10.1016/j.bpc.2017.02.007|pmid=28363089 |year=2017 }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Krishna Deepak |first1=R. N. V. |last2=Sankararamakrishnan |first2=Ramasubbu |date=2016-07-12 |title=N–H···N Hydrogen Bonds Involving Histidine Imidazole Nitrogen Atoms: A New Structural Role for Histidine Residues in Proteins |journal=Biochemistry |volume=55 |issue=27 |pages=3774–3783 |doi=10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00253 |pmid=27305350 |issn=0006-2960|url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/N_H_N_Hydrogen_Bonds_Involving_Histidine_Imidazole_Nitrogen_Atoms_A_New_Structural_Role_for_Histidine_Residues_in_Proteins/3466286 }}

== See also ==
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* [[Kozak consensus sequence]]
* [[Molecular dynamics]]
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{{portal|India|Biology}}

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.bii.a-star.edu.sg/events.php?eventid=542 |title=Bioinformatics Institute |website=www.bii.a-star.edu.sg |language=en |access-date=2018-01-09}}
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TMM53uyZig |title=Molecular Simulations Applications in Biology Structure of Biomolecules: An Overview |publisher=Slide Showing |format=YouTube video |date=27 December 2017 |access-date=2018-01-11}}

== External links ==
* {{cite book|author=Rudolf Werner|title=Gap Junctions: Proceedings of the 8th International Gap Junction Conference, Key Largo, Florida|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4eIEGOjL5_EC&pg=PA71|year=1998|publisher=IOS Press|isbn=978-90-5199-374-5|pages=71–}}
* {{cite book|title=Receptor Molecular Biology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xFReAGkks2YC&pg=PA427|date=22 March 1995|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-08-053644-6|pages=427–}}

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