Dr. N.Gautham

Professor and Head i/c

Field of Specialisation:

X-ray Crystallography, Computational Biology, Biophysics

Contact Address

Office

Department of Crystallography and Biophysics. University of Madras Guindy Campus, Chennai 600 025,India Phone 91 44 2235 1367 (+)91 44 2230 0122 FAX (+)91 44 2235 2494 e-mail: gautham@unom.ac.in, n_gautham@hotmail.com

Residence

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Achievements:

National Science Talent Scholarship, 1972, NCERT, Govt. of India Bandukwala Prize, 1978, MS University Baroda, I rank in M.Sc. Martin Foster Gold Medal, 1983, Indian Institute of Science, Best Thesis in Division of Physics and Mathematics BOYSCAST Fellowship, 1990, Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

Honour and Awards:

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National & International Membership:

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Papers / Books Published:

The MOLS (mutually orthogonal Latin squares) algorithm for exploring the conformational space of peptides - PDF Format Correlations between nucleotide frequencies and amino acid composition in 115 bacterial species. D. Bharanidharan, iophys.Acta, 1435, 7-21. The effect of non-altering sequence on the structure of justify-handed Z-DNA. N.Gautham, P.Karthe and S.Krishnaswamy(1999). In 'Perspectives in Structural Biology', M. Vijayan, N.Yathindra(eds). Indian Academy of Sciences and Universities Press, Hyderabad, pp 593-601. Unusual ring-shaped oligonucleotide crystals. P.Satheesh Kumar and N.Gautham (1999). Current Sci., 77, 1076-1078. Structure of d(CACGCG).d(CGCGTG) in crystals grown in the presence of ruthenium hexammine chloride. P.Karthe and N.Gautham(1998). Acta Cryst., D54, 501-509. Books written: 'Biophysics' Vasantha Pattabhi and N.Gautham (2001) Narosa Publishing Company, New Delhi and Kluwer Academic Publishing, USA (This is a texbook in biophysics for post-graduate students in biological sciences.) Patent: 1 (For the method of MOLS as used in molecular structure prediction. A US and PCT patent has been applied for.)