Biswaranjan Mohanty, PhD.

bmohanty@scripps.edu
phone: +1 858 784 7649  
fax     : +1 858 784 8014 

Research Interests

My current interest focus on more specific problems of protein structural biology and the development of NMR techniques for efficient protein structure determination in the context of structural genomics.

1997 B. Sc in Physics (Hons.) with Chemistry and Mathematics: S.V.M College, Utkal University, Orissa, India. Rank 9 th in the University.

2000 M. Sc in Physics (Spectroscopy): Ravenshaw College, Utkal University, Orissa, India.

2006 phD (Polymer physics): School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

2006 – 2007 Postdoctoral training: Dept. of Surface Chemistry, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.

 2007 – Research Associate: Dept. of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Publications

1. B. Mohanty and H. B. Bohidar; Systematic of Alcohol Induced Simple Coacervation in Aqueous Gelatin Solutions, Biomacromolecules, 4, 1080 -1086 , 2003.

2. H. B. Bohidar and B. Mohanty; Anomalous Self-assembly of Gelatin in Ethanol-Water Marginal Solvent, Physical Review E, 69, 21902 - 21911, 2004.

3. B. Mohanty and H. B. Bohidar; AFM study of morphology of gelatin coacervate material, International Journal of Polymeric Materials, 54(8), 675-689, 2005.

4. B. Mohanty, V. K. Aswal, P. S. Goyal and H. B. Bohidar; Small Angle Neutron and Dynamic Light Scattering Study of Gelatin Coacervates, Pramana, 63(2), 271-276, 2004. [An Indian Inst of Physics journal]

5. B. Mohanty and H. B. Bohidar; Microscopic structure of galatin coacervates, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 36(1-2), 39-46, 2005.

6.A. Gupta, B. Mohanty and H. B. Bohidar; Flory temperature and UCST of gelatin solutions, Biomacromolecules, 6, 1623 -1627, 2005

7. B. Mohanty and H. B. Bohidar; Synthesis of gelatin nanoparticles via simple coacervation, Journal of Surface Science and Technology, 21(3-4), 1-12, 2005.

8. B. Mohanty, V. KAswal, J. Kohelbrecher and H. B. Bohidar; Length scale hierarchy in Sol, gel and Coacervate Phases of Gelatin, Journal of Polymer Science: Part -B: Polymer Physics, 44, 1653 – 1667, 2006.

9. B. Mohanty and H.B.Bohidar; Internal Pressure Fluctuations in Coacervates and Syneresis, Europhys. Lett. 76 (5), 965-971, 2006.

10. B. Mohanty, A. Gupta,S. Bandopadhay and H.B.Bohidar; Effect of Gelatin Molecular Charge Heterogeneity of Intermolecular complexes and Coacervation Transition, Journal of Polymer Science: Part -B: Polymer Physics, 45, 1511-1520, 2007.

11. B. Mohanty, Anita K Verma and H.B.Bohidar; Physical and Anti-microbial Characteristics of Carbon Nano-particles Prepared from Lamp Soot, Nanotechnology, (accepted for publication, Sept. 2007).

12. B. Mohanty, T. Pettersson, A. Dedinaite, P. Claesson;Polyelectrolyte-surfactant aggregates confined between mica and silica interfaces: A systematic study of force-friction and structure relationship, (in process ).