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Sanjib Senapati

Sanjib Senapati is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Sanjib Senapati rather than just read about it. In short: Sanjib Senapati is an Indian biophysicist, biochemist, biotechnologist and a professor at the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Department of Biotechnology of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He is known for his studies in the fields of protein dynamics, green chemistry and nanoclusters and is a Fulbright scholar.

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Reference excerpt

Sanjib Senapati is an Indian biophysicist, biochemist, biotechnologist and a professor at the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Department of Biotechnology of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He is known for his studies in the fields of protein dynamics, green chemistry and nanoclusters and is a Fulbright scholar. 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 2015.

Biography

Born in the Indian state of West Bengal, Sanjib Senapati secured his master's degree from the University of Calcutta and did his doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur which earned him a PhD. Subsequently, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) as a faculty member of the department of biotechnology and holds the position of a professor at the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences at IITM. The team lead by him focuses their research in the fields of protein dynamics, green chemistry and nanoclusters. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and Google Scholar, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 110 of them. The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) of the Government of India awarded Senapati the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2015. In 2017, he was selected for the Fulbright Scholarship program by the United States Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for working on a project at the laboratory of Andrej Šali of the University of California, San Francisco, during 2017–18.

Selected bibliography Pratap Singh, Akhil; Sithambaram, Devilakshmi; Sanghavi, Rutvi; Kumar Gupta, Piyush; Shanker Verma, Rama; Doble, Mukesh; Gardas, Ramesh L.; Senapati, Sanjib (2017). "Environmentally benign tetramethylguanidinium cation based ionic liquids". New J. Chem. 41 (20): 12268–12277. doi:10.1039/c7nj03167j. Appadurai, Rajeswari; Senapati, Sanjib (2 March 2016). "Dynamical Network of HIV-1 Protease Mutants Reveals the Mechanism of Drug Resistance and Unhindered Activity". Biochemistry. 55 (10): 1529–1540. doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00946. PMID 26892689. Allu, Prasanna K. R.; Chirasani, Venkat R.; Ghosh, Dhiman; Mani, Anitha; Bera, Amal K.; Maji, Samir K.; Senapati, Sanjib; Mullasari, Ajit S.; Mahapatra, Nitish R. (14 February 2014). "Naturally Occurring Variants of the Dysglycemic Peptide Pancreastatin DIFFERENTIAL POTENCIES FOR MULTIPLE CELLULAR FUNCTIONS AND STRUCTURE-FUNCTION CORRELATION". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289 (7): 4455–4469. doi:10.1074/jbc.M113.520916. PMC 3924307. PMID 24338022.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Sanjib Senapati

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Sanjib Senapati ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Sanjib Senapati

In research: Sanjib Senapati appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Sanjib Senapati in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Sanjib Senapati is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic staff of IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur alumni, Indian biochemists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Sanjib Senapati outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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