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Gopal Jee Gopal

Assistant Professor CGBIBT [email protected] 09558880617

Education Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine 2005- 2012

M.Sc.Specialin Centre Biotechnology for Molecular (DBT,Medicine Govt of India sponsored) 2003- 2005 Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Gujarat University,

Specialization

Molecular Biology and Recombinant DNA Technology

Professional/Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor,

C.G. Bhakta Institute of Biotechnolog, Uka Tarsadia University: 6Aug 2015--- Present Assistant Professor, Full time PI in project funded by SERB, Govt of india: 18May2015—05 Aug 2015 Dept. of Biochemistry, The M.S.University of Baroda: 1 july 2013- Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral fellow 17May. 2015. ( A UGC Schme): 07May 2012- 30 June2013. Worked under mentorship of Professor Rakesh Bhatnagar, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Senior Research Fellow Nehru Uinversity. : 1 sept 2011 to 5 May 2012. DST funded project of Prof. Rakesh Senior Research fellowship Bhatnagar, School of Biotechnology, JNU, New Delhi.st : 1 Jan. 2009 to 31 . Dec. 2010. For pursuing PhD, C.S.IR Junior Research fellowship Fellowship. st : 1Jan 2006 to 31 . Dec.2008( for pursuing PhD, CSIR Researchfellowship Interest)

1. Deciphering Type IV secretion system of Bacillus anthracis and Helicobacter pylori.

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2. Production of therapeutic protein( biosimmilars) so that it could be affordable to Indian population.

Ongoing Project: Characterization Of Putative Type IV Secretion System of Bacillus anthracis Funded by Science and Engineering Research Board(SERB), Govt.of India under Fast Track Scheme of Young Scientists.

Research Experience

PhD Thesis: Analysis Of The Structural Feature of Helicobacter pylori Type IV Secretion System. Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship of UGC): Characterization Of Putative Type IV Secretion System of Bacillus anthracis.(May 20012-jun2013)

Creditable position

 As a referee in indexed/peer-reviewed journal (if yes, give journal name)

 Reviewer of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Journal of Microbiology.  Member of Editorial Board, Clinical Research and Trial.  Reviewer of Bioengineered Journal.  Member of editorial board, IJBASR.  Advisor of Bioglobia Journal. AWARDS/ HONORS/ SCHOLARSHIPS______1. 2012 :Selected for Fast track Young Scientist (Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India)

2. 2012 : Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship (University Grant commission) 3. 2008 : Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR, New Delhi (India) for Ph.D. 4. 2006 : Junior Research Fellowship from CSIR, New Delhi, (India) for Ph.D. 5. 2005 : Awarded NET-JRF( Junior Research Fellowship ) in Life Science from UGC/CSIR, New Delhi.

6. 2003 : National Merit Scholarship for pursuing M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Department of Biotechnology (DBT), New Delhi. 7. 2001 : Received full free ship in B.Sc. (H) from C.M. Science College, Darbhanga National level examination qualified:

 Qualified for Junior Research Fellowship (NET-JRF) jointly conducted by Council for Scientific and Industrial research (CSIR) and University Grants Commission (UGC) in 2005.  Qualified all India entrance examination for PhD programme--2005 at Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, JNU and Secured First Rank.

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 Qualified all India entrance examination (Written test) for PhD programme--2005 at School of Life sciences, JNU.

 Qualified for PhD programme-2005 in the Department of Biochemistry and Department of Microbiology and Cell biology of Indian Institute of Science (I.I.Sc.), Bangalore.  Qualified for All India combined entrance examination--2003, conducted by, JNU (Department of Biotechnology, Govt.of India , sponsored programme).for M.Sc. Biotechnology.

Presentations Invited Speaker:

 Delivered talk on Pattern of NET-JRF exam and important techniques for protein/protein and protein/DNA interaction studies’ in 5 Days Crash course organized by ARIBAS, Anand and funded by GSBTM. on 2nd Dec. 2015  Delivered invited talk in International conference on ‘The Recent trends in Biotechnology and Biodiversity’ organized by TNB College Bhagalpur, T.M. Bhagalapur university, Bihar on 27th to 29th July 2015.  Delivered talk on Pattern of NET-JRF exam in 5 Days Crash course organised by ARIBAS, Anand and funded by GSBTM. on 22 May 2015.  Delivered plenary talk in National Conference on Prospect of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics tools and their Application” organised by T. M. Bhagalpur University ,Bhagalpur on 19th – 21st Jan.’ 2015.

 Delivered Invited talk in International conference on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology (ICETB 2014)& 11th convention of Biotech Research Society, India (BRSI) on ‘Characterization of H.pylori type IV secretion system’ at JNU, New Delhi, on 9th Nov 2014.  Delivered invited motivational talk in Sarjana Nikhar Shivir organized by MRM College Darbhanga on 14-06-2014.  Delivered Invited talk on Recombinant protein production in E.coli at Dept. of Microbiology and Biotechnology, School of Sciences, university, Ahmedabad, Gujarat on 5th March 2014.  Delivered talk (as Resource person) on Characterization of CagX protein of H. pylori Type IV Secretion System at National Conference on Integrative Genomics (11-12 Feb 2014) organized by Sri Shankaracharya Mahavidyalay, Bhilai Nagar, Chattisgardh and sponsored by CGCOST.  Delivered Invited talk at M.P. Patel Institute, Anand, Gujarat on Strategy for the production of recombinant protein in E.coli on 5th Feb 2014.  Delivered invited talk at Shri Alpes N. Patel P.G. Institute, Anand, Gujarat on Strategy for the production of recombinant protein in E.coli on 1st Feb 2014.  Delivered invited talk on ‘Strategy for the production of recombinanat protein in E.coli’ at Shree Ram Krishna Institute Of computer Science and Applied Science, , Gujarat on 17th Dec.2013.  Delivered invited lecture on Gene Expression Strategy’ in training course organized by Department of Animal Biotechnology, Hisar Agriculture University, Hisar, Haryana on 29th Dec.2012.  Delivered invited lecture entitled “Opportunities in Biological Science research” at MLSM College and Marwari College, Darbhanga (November 3rd 2010, )  Delivered invited lecture entitled “Opportunities in Biological Science’ at Samastipur College, Samastipur (March 9th 2011).

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 Delivered invited lecture entitled “Opportunities in Life Science’ G.D college, Begusarai (March 13th 2011, sponsored by UGC (career counseling cell)  Delivered invited lecture entitled “Opportunities in Biotechnology’ at Department of Biotechnology and Botany of Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga

Professional/Research Training

 Attended one week (March 11-15, 2013) workshop on ‘Discovery, Development and Commercialization of Biologics’ combinely organized by CDSA,PATH,OWH and IIT Delhi.  Attended 15 days ‘Technology Led Entrepreneurship Programme’ (9thTLEP) of CSIR(HRD) conducted by IIM Bangalore at CSIR-IICT Hyderabad.  Done 3 month project (November 2004 – January 2005) entitled “Isolation of genomic DNA and RNA from Jatropha curcus” at Central salt and Marine Chemical Research Institute (CSIR), Bhavnagar, Gujarat.

Publications

 Pal J, Sanal MG, Gopal GJ.(2011) Vitamin-C as anti-Helicobacter pylori agent: More prophylactic than curative- Critical review. Indian J Pharmacol.43:624-7.( Cited by:13)  Gopal Jee Gopal, Awanish kumar (2013) Strategies For The Production of Recombinant Protein in Escherichia.Coli. Protein J. 32: 419-425.( Cited by:30)  Gopal Jee Gopal*, Awanish Kumar, Jagannath Pal, G. Mukhopadhyay* (2014). Molecular characterization and polyclonal antibody generation against core component, CagX protein, of H.pylori Type Iv secretion system. Bioengineered 5:2, 1–7.( Cited by:3)  Gopal Jee Gopal*, Jagannath Pal, Awanish Kumar G. Mukhopadhyay*(2015) C-terminal domain of CagX is responsible for its interaction with CagT protein of Helicobacter pylori type IV secretion system, BBRC 456(1):98-103 (cited by :1)

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