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Work History
Education
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Priyanka Bagdiya

Priyanka Bagdiya

Kharghar

Summary

Skilled biochemist and structural biologist with over 7 years of expertise in protein biochemistry and cancer biology. PhD in Life Sciences, with a proven track record in writing and editing scientific research articles. Seeking a transition from academia while leveraging analytical and writing skills to create engaging scientific content.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

PhD student

ACTREC- TMC
Navi mumbai
08.2018 - Current
  • Research work featured in Biopatrika.
  • Research work featured on the cover page of the FASEB Journal.
  • I provided guidance and trained three MSc dissertation students
  • I organized the national-level conference, NRSM-2021.

Education

Ph.D. - Life Sciences

Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Navi Mumbai Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai
01.2024

M.Sc. - Biotechnology

SRTM University
Nanded, Maharashtra
01.2017

B.Sc. - Biotechnology

SRTM University
Nanded, Maharashtra
01.2015

H.S.C. -

Yeshwant College, Nanded (Latur Divisional Board)
01.2012

S.S.C. -

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Basmatnagar (CBSE)
01.2010

Skills

  • Molecular cloning, vector designing, site-directed mutagenesis, deletion of amino acids, transformation in a bacterial system, mutant screening
  • Recombinant protein purification using affinity chromatography (column purification), ammonium sulfate precipitation (insoluble protein purification), and size-exclusion chromatography (Bio-Rad)
  • Biophysical characterization: circular dichroism (CD), thermal shift assays, dye-based and tryptophan fluorescence-based nanoDSF from Nanotemper, and dynamic light scattering (DLS)
  • Protein–ligand interaction studies: fluorescence polarization (Cytation 50), microscale thermophoresis (Monolith), SPR (Biacore T200), BLI (Octet), dye-based and tryptophan fluorescence assays, and limited trypsinolysis coupled to mass spectrometry
  • Protein crystallography: Setting up crystallization trials using sitting and hanging drop vapor diffusion methods
  • Enzymatic assays: ATPase activity assays using the ATP/ADP GloMax kit, asparaginase assay using fluorescent substrate, glutaminase assay
  • Mammalian cell culture – Cell revival, seeding, trypsinisation, and MTT assay
  • Immunoblotting

Qualifications & Awards

CSIR Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (SPM) Award – Life Sciences, CSIR-NET JRF (AIR 13), GATE Biotechnology (AIR 326), DBT-BET Category I, Maharashtra SET Qualified, INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) (2012)

Conferences & Presentations

  • Biophysics Paschim (2025): Oral presentation – “ATP-driven allosteric regulation of 14-3-3: positive modulation of ATP hydrolysis and negative control of peptide ligand binding.”
  • Biophysics Paschim (2024): Poster – “A conserved tyrosine residue dominates oligomerization of 14-3-3.”
  • 49th Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, Victoria, Australia (2024)
  • Indian Cancer Congress, Jio Convention Centre, Mumbai (2024)
  • National Research Scholars Meet, ACTREC, Mumbai (2023)
  • Macromolecular Assemblies: Structure, Function, and Evolution, IISER Pune (2023) – Poster on “Identification of ATP binding and hydrolysis site in 14-3-3 and its allosteric effect.”
  • HBNI 2nd Theme Meeting, SINP Kolkata (2023) – Poster on “Identification of ATP binding and hydrolysis site in 14-3-3 and its allosteric effect.”
  • 44th Indian Biophysical Society Meeting (2022): Poster – “Role of invariant residues in ligand interaction and conformational changes in 14-3-3
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  • Biophysics Paschim (2019): Poster – “Role of invariant residues in ligand interaction and conformational changes in 14-3-3
  • 42nd Indian Biophysical Society Meeting (2018): Poster – “Role of invariant residues in ligand interaction and conformational changes in 14-3-3

Other Achievements

  • Participated twice in the Maharashtra State Inter-University Research Convention (2014 & 2015) under UG category.
  • Recognized for outstanding performance under the INSPIRE-SHE scheme (2012).

Timeline

PhD student

ACTREC- TMC
08.2018 - Current

Ph.D. - Life Sciences

Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Navi Mumbai Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai

M.Sc. - Biotechnology

SRTM University

B.Sc. - Biotechnology

SRTM University

H.S.C. -

Yeshwant College, Nanded (Latur Divisional Board)

S.S.C. -

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Basmatnagar (CBSE)
Priyanka Bagdiya