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2024 Update Post
Now that it’s 2024 I realized I should probably sit down and write out some life updates and what is going on! This will just be a set of updates on what I’ve been up to professionally in the last few years: TLDR: I’ll be going on the faculty job search in the fall! Let me know if you know anybody hiring, and feel free to check out my research! Stay tuned for more papers, work, and updates!
July 11, 2024
My Dissertation!
This page links to all the available copies of my PhD Dissertation! My full thesis itself is available in multiple forms! My complete dissertation is available online (in a scrollable/navigable form) at https://sukritsingh.github.io/thesis. You can also reach it by clicking the buttons below Online HTML version PDF version I’m super happy (and lucky) that all the main thesis chapters (except for Introduction and Conclusion) of my thesis are available as published works (either in journals or as preprints for now).
December 11, 2020
Signaling in action
Image with Captions and Markdown TL;DR: Our paper in eLife modeling G protein activation is out! Check it out here A brief summary of our paper was also published as an eLife digest! Introduction and Significance To communicate and respond to our environment (i.e. via vision, smell, or taste), our cells rely on signaling cascades made up of groups of proteins that activate and deactivate one another, much like a circuit.
October 20, 2018
Biophysical Society 2018 takeaways
With another Biophysical Society meeting over, I can’t help but bask in reflection at all the glorious science I got to see. More and more, biophysics is bridging the gap between basic science and translational research, where back-to-back speakers can be discussing a novel protein that nobody yet understands, followed by a speaker applying physical methods and imaging to better identify cells and tumors! Reposting this image again because it’s so applicable: In reflection, I wanted to post some thoughts/takeaways I had:
February 28, 2018
The Value of a Creative Hobby
So before I dive into the main subject of this post, I figured it might be time for a couple of personal updates: I’m a fourth year now! Holy cow! Time is certainly flying. I got to help out on a project with Tim Wencewicz’s group studying how Wildfire Toxin (AKA Tabtoxinine-β-Lactam) inhibits bacterial glutamine synthetase, opening new doors for antibiotic design! The paper was recently accepted in Biochemistry. So with that out of the way:
January 10, 2018
Gibbs 2017 Takeaways
So this is long past overdue, but I wanted to write up some thoughts I had on Gibbs 2017, and how much fun it was to attend!! Attending a smaller conference like Gibbs always incredibly fun, not only are you getting a chance to see the same people again and reconnect, but it is a lot easier to bug faculty and try and improve your own visibility! So anyways, without further ado, here is a very abridged list of my Gibbs 2017 highlights:
November 14, 2017
CARDS paper published!
After a decent amount of revision: the CARDS paper has officially been accepted!!! If anybody is interested in reading it, they can check it out here. Now the fun comes! I’m excited to start applying all kinds of fun analyses to structure+disordered states, as well as testing CARDS on all kinds of new systems. If you’re reading this and are interested in using CARDS, shoot me an email or a message somewhere and we can get that ball rolling!
March 14, 2017
Biophysical Society 2017 Takeaways
Last week I had a fun time in NOLA (New Orleans) at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting! It was my first big conference and it was absolutely fabulous to see so much new and exciting work done from all kinds of different fields/approaches. It kinda got me even more excited about biophysics - it felt like there were so many things that biophysical theory can be applicable to, from cancer to small peptide design, all the way to material engineering!
February 20, 2017
10 things I learned about science
Science is a cruel mistress, especially when you first start your life as a research trainee. However the skills and “scar tissue” gained can be useful. In the last 6 months following my qualifying exam, some of the tricks I picked up while preparing for it have come in handy, and I’ve even picked up a few more since then. Here they all are in a nice and catchy “Top 10” format, in no specific order.
January 1, 2016
Viruses paper published
A paper I helped with during my time in the Fremont lab (where I rotated for 3 months) just got published! It’s introducing a new structural domain (Poxvirus Immune Evasion, or PIE) used in immune system evasion, and the evolutionary tree connecting each type of PIE protein. You can check it out here
September 10, 2015
My first blog post
This is my first post! I don’t have anything particularly interesting to post at the moment so here’s some puppies
May 15, 2015