Ramasubbu Sankararamakrishnan is an Indian computational biologist, bioinformatician and a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering of theIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is known for his computational studies onmembrane protein function. TheDepartment of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him theNational Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2008.

R. Sankararamakrishnan, who completed his early college education at theMadurai Kamaraj University in 1986, did his doctoral studies at theIndian Institute of Science and after obtaining a PhD in 1992, he moved to the UK where he did his post-doctoral research incomputational biology at theUniversity of Oxford.^[1] He had another stint of post-doctoral work at theUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and started his career in 1996 as an instructor (later assistant professor of research) at theIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In April 2002, he returned to India to join theIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) as an assistant professor and serves as a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSBE).^[2] Subsequently, he founded the Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Simulation Laboratory at IITK where he hosts several research scholars.^[3] He also serves as a resource person for the Centre for Mathematical Biology of theDepartment of Science and Technology.^[4]

Sankaramakrishnan's research is focused onmechanism of membrane protein function using computational approaches.^[2] He is known to have carried out research onaquaporin genes in plants,Asx turns,molecular dynamic simulations ofprotein-protein interactions, GPCRpeptide hormones as well as nonAUG start codons and AUGcodons.^[5] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles^{[6][note 1]} andResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 98 of them.^[7] Besides, he has also contributed chapters to books published by others^[8] and his articles have drawn many citations.^[9][10][11] He is the co-author ofMIPModDB, a database of structure models ofMajor intrinsic proteins.^[12] He has also delivered invited or keynote speeches at various national and international seminars.^[13][14][15]

Sankararamakrishnan is a member of the National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology,^[16] an agency funded by theScience and Engineering Research Board of the Government of India for promoting scientific research and advanced training in the discipline.^[17] He is also a life member of theNational Academy of Sciences, India, one of the three major Indian science academies.^[18]

TheDepartment of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him theNational Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2008.^[19] 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.^[2]

• International Biometric Society. Indian Region. Conference; R. Sankararamakrishnan (chapter author) (2006)."Pattern Searching in Protein and DNA Sequences".Statistical Advances in Biosciences and Bioinformatics. Allied Publishers. pp. 106–.ISBN 978-81-7764-968-0.{{cite book}}:|author2= has generic name (help)

• Iyer, Abhishek Hariharan; Krishna Deepak, Rama Nagesh Venkata; Sankararamakrishnan, Ramasubbu (27 December 2017). "Imidazole Nitrogens of Two Histidine Residues Participating in N-H…N Hydrogen Bonds in Protein Structures: Structural Bioinformatics Approach Combined with Quantum Chemical Calculations".The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.122 (3):1205–1212.doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b11737.ISSN 1520-6106.PMID 29278913.
• Krishna Deepak, R.N.V.; Chandrakar, Brijesh; Sankararamakrishnan, Ramasubbu (2017). "Comparison of metal-binding strength between methionine and cysteine residues: Implications for the design of metal-binding motifs in proteins".Biophysical Chemistry.224:32–39.doi:10.1016/j.bpc.2017.02.007.PMID 28363089.
• Krishna Deepak, R. N. V.; Sankararamakrishnan, Ramasubbu (12 July 2016)."N–H···N Hydrogen Bonds Involving Histidine Imidazole Nitrogen Atoms: A New Structural Role for Histidine Residues in Proteins".Biochemistry.55 (27):3774–3783.doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00253.ISSN 0006-2960.PMID 27305350.

• "Bioinformatics Institute".www.bii.a-star.edu.sg. Retrieved9 January 2018.
• "Molecular Simulations Applications in Biology Structure of Biomolecules: An Overview"(YouTube video). Slide Showing. 27 December 2017. Retrieved11 January 2018.

• Rudolf Werner (1998).Gap Junctions: Proceedings of the 8th International Gap Junction Conference, Key Largo, Florida. IOS Press. pp. 71–.ISBN 978-90-5199-374-5.
• Receptor Molecular Biology. Elsevier. 22 March 1995. pp. 427–.ISBN 978-0-08-053644-6.

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