Sunil Kumar Podder Explained

Sunil Kumar Podder
Birth Date:	1937 2, df=yes
Birth Place:	Barisal District, Bengal Presidency, British India (now in Bangladesh)
Nationality:	Indian
Alma Mater:	Calcutta University (MSc, PhD)
Doctoral Advisor:	Sadhan Basu
Academic Advisors:	Manfred Eigen
Doctoral Students:	Dipankar Chatterji
Known For:	Biophysical Studies on Ligand
Awards:	1982 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize

Sunil Kumar Podder (1 February 1937 – 22 April 2023) was an Indian molecular biologist and biophysicist, known for his biophysical studies on Ligand.^[1] Focusing his researches on the recognition processes in biological systems and their chemical specificity, he proposed a model for measuring the specificity using free energy of association of amino acids of proteins with nucleic acid bases.^[2]

Podder took his doctorate under noted polymer chemist Sadhan Basu, subsequently conducting post-doctoral studies at the University of Pittsburgh and the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry; he studied under Manfred Eigen at the latter institution.^[3] A former member of faculty at the department of biochemistry of the Indian Institute of Science where he taught from 1972 to 1997,^[4] and a life member of the Indian Biophysical Society,^[5] he published several articles detailing his research findings in peer reviewed journals^{[6] [7] [8] [9]} and has presented many papers.^[10] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1982, for his contributions to biological sciences.^[11]

See also

• Dipankar Chatterji

Notes and References

1. Web site: Brief Profile of the Awardee . Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize . 2016 . 28 September 2016.
2. Web site: Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners . Council of Scientific and Industrial Research . 1999 . 28 September 2016 . 34.
3. Chakrabarti . Abhijit. Chatterji . Dipankar. 10 June 2023 . Obituary: Sunil Kumar Podder (1937–2023) . Current Science . 124 . 11 . 1355–1356 . 8 June 2023.
4. Web site: Former Faculty . Indian Institute of Science . 30 September 2016 . 17 June 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160617005849/http://biochem.iisc.ernet.in/former_faculty.php . dead .
5. Web site: Life member . Indian Biophysical Society . 2016 . 30 September 2016 . 15 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160315141115/http://indianbiophysicalsociety.org/Life-members.html . dead .
6. Elucidation of the mechanism of interaction of sheep spleen galectin-1 with splenocytes and its role in cell–matrix adhesion . Radha Ramkumar, Sunil Kumar Podder . Journal of Molecular Recognition . September 2000 . 13 . 5 . 299–309 . 10.1002/1099-1352(200009/10)13:5<299::AID-JMR504>3.0.CO;2-O. 10992292 . 45928144 .
7. Reactivity of glycoconjugates in membranes. I. Determination of transbilayer distribution of gangliosides in lipid vesicles by chemical methods . Panakkezhum Devasia Thomas, Sunil Kumar Podder . Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes . June 1982 . 688 . 2 . 453–459 . 10.1016/0005-2736(82)90356-X. 6285968 .
8. Peanut agglutinin from callus and cell suspension cultures of Arachis hypogaea L. . Icy D'Silva, Sunil Kumar Podder . Plant Cell Reports . November 1994 . 14 . 1 . 50–54 . 10.1007/BF00233298. 24194227. 23760246 .
9. Evaluation of the stoichiometry and energetics of carbohydrate binding to Ricinus communis agglutinin: a calorimetric study . Shalini SHARMA, Satish BHARADWAJ, Avadhesha SUROLIA, Sunil Kumar PODDER . Biochemical Journal . August 1998 . 333 . 3 . 539–542 . 10.1042/bj3330539. 9677310 . 1219614 .
10. Web site: Invited talks and Paper Presentation . University of Indore . 2016 . 30 September 2016.
11. Web site: View Bhatnagar Awardees . Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize . 2016 . 19 September 2016.