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Shandar Ahmad

Shandar Ahmad

Shandar Ahmad
Shandar Ahmad
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Computational and Integrative Sciences
Room No
09
Email
shandar@jnu.ac.in
Personal Webpage
http://shandarslab.org
Qualifications
Ph.D. 
Areas of Interest/Specialization
Protein-DNA interactions Genome-wide DNA conformation Microbrial genome assembly and genome-phenome association Algorthims for Computational Biology Machine Learning and Integrative analysis of biological data; Neural networks, deep learning and big data analytics 
Experience
Lecturer/Reader/Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (Aug 1994-Jan 2007) Visiting Scientist at RIKEN Tsukuba Institute, Tsukuba, Japan (2001) Visiting Lecturer at Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia (2000-2001) Senior Scientist at Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (2003-2005) Research Scientist at National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Osaka, Japan (Jan 2007-March 2016) Adjunct Associate Professor at Graduate School of Frontier Bioscience, Osaka University, Japan (April 2008-March 2016) 
Awards & Honours
Appointed Visiting Scientist at National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Japan w.e.f. April 2016-March 2017
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
Analysis and prediction of DNA-binding proteins and their binding residues based on composition, sequence and structural information, S Ahmad, MM Gromiha, A Sarai, Bioinformatics (2004) 20 (4), 477-486 ReadOut: structure-based calculation of direct and indirect readout energies and specificities for protein–DNA recognition, S Ahmad, H Kono, MJ Arauzo-Bravo, A Sarai, Nucleic acids research (2006) 34 (suppl 2), W124-W127 Protein–DNA interactions: structural, thermodynamic and clustering patterns of conserved residues in DNA-binding proteins, S Ahmad, O Keskin, A Sarai, R Nussinov. Nucleic acids research (2008) 36 (18), 5922-5932 CCRXP: exploring clusters of conserved residues in protein structures Shandar Ahmad,Ozlem Keskin, Kenji Mizuguchi, Akinori Sarai, and Ruth Nussinov, Nucl. Acids Res. (2010) 38 (suppl 2): W398-W401  Prediction of dinucleotide-specific RNA-binding sites in proteins, M Fernandez, Y Kumagai, DM Standley, A Sarai, K Mizuguchi, S Ahmad BMC bioinformatics (2011) 12 (Suppl 13), S5 
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
Profiles of microRNA networks in intestinal epithelial cells in a mouse model of colitis Juneyoung Lee, Eun Jeong Park, Yoshikazu Yuki, Shandar Ahmad, Kenji Mizuguchi, Ken J Ishii, Motomu Shimaoka, Hiroshi Kiyono, Scientific reports (2015) 5 Genome-wide transcription factor activities are explained by intrinsic conformational dynamics of binding-sites and distal flanking-regions, Munazah Andrabi, Andrew Paul Hutchins, Diego Miranda-Saavedra, Hidetoshi Kono, Ruth Nussinov, Kenji Mizuguchi, Shandar Ahmad (2015) bioRxiv, 020602 Conformational changes in DNA-binding proteins: Relationships with precomplex features and contributions to specificity and stability, M Andrabi, K Mizuguchi, S Ahmad, Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics (2014) 82 (5), 841-857 

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.