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Welcome to my detailed academic timeline


2023

Passed my Ph.D. Qualifying Examination
MCIBS Ph.D. Program
November 27, 2023
Got selected in the The Tartu Winter school on Evolution, Genomics and Medicine 2023
cGEM - Centre for Genomics, Evolution and Medicine, The University of Tartu
November 17, 2023
Joined Prof. Kateryna D Makova's Lab as a Ph.D. student
Francis R. and Helen M. Pentz Professor of Biology at Penn State
January 3, 2023

2022

First paper published in J. Phy. Chem. B
Quantifying Mutational Response to Track the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Variants
September 30, 2022
Started Grad School at the Penn State University
MCIBS, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences
August 15, 2022
Graduated with a BS-MS Dual Degree in Biological Sciences from IISER Kolkata
Chief Guest: Padma Shri Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
July 14, 2022
Launched my new personal Website
120th birthday of Barbara McClintock (Nobel Laureate)
June 16, 2022
Ranked under Category-I of DBT-BET-2022
Conducted by Department of Biotechnology
June 04, 2022
Defended and Submitted my Master's Thesis
Investigating drug-mediated conformational changes in KRas
May 23, 2022
Completed Teaching Assistantship in the Introduction to Computation (CS2201) under Dr. Kripabandhu Ghosh
Applying Python to numerical methods
January–May, 2022
Got an acceptance from BCM's CPSB Graduate PhD program
Baylor College of Medicine
March 15, 2022
Accepted to Penn State's MCIBS Graduate PhD program with a Braddock Scholarship Award
Pennsylvania State University
March 01, 2022

2021

Completed Teaching Assistantship in the Biology Laboratory (LS2102) under Dr. Dipjyoti Das
Computer simulations related to estimation of diffusion coefficient
August–December, 2021
Secured Global Rank–254 in Bioinformatics Contest–2021
Organised by Stepik, Bioinformatics Institute, ITMO University, Russia and Rosalind
June 27, 2021
Attended virtual workshop "Pharma & Biopharma: Molecule to Medicine–How it works in Industry"
Organised by DBS, IISER Kolkata in association with Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories
May–June, 2021
Qualified GATE-2021 with AIR (All India Rank)–29 in XL-stream
GATE Score–835
March 20, 2021

2020

Completed "Getting Started in Cryo-EM" Course by Prof. Grant Jensen
Course at Coursera
December 11, 2020
Joined Dr. Susmita Roy's lab for my MS Thesis Research
Academic-cum-Administrative Complex (AAC), IISER Kolkata
February 27, 2020

2019

Selected by Summer Research Fellowship Program (SRFP) under Prof. Namita Surolia
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru
May–July, 2019
Completed "Prevention of Antibiotic Resistance in Environment" (PARE) Course by Prof. Sharon Gusky
Conducted by ASM-IUSSTF at IISER Kolkata
January 3–10, 2019

2018

Pursued Summer Internship under Dr. Yogita K. Adlakha
National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar
May–July, 2018

2017

Attended the National Vijyoshi Camp–2017
Organized by IISc, KVPY, IISER Kolkata and DST-INSPIRE
December 10–12, 2017
Admitted to IISER Kolkata with an AIR (All India Rank)–197
Through State and Central Board (SCB) Channel
July 31, 2017