The BioInformer nr. 6, 2000 --- Sameer Velankar




	A publication of EMBL - Outstation Hinxton, The European Bioinformatics Institute

Sameer Velankar

Database Developer

E-mail: sameer@ebi.ac.uk

My name is Sameer S. Velankar. I joined the MSD group in EBI in March 2000 as a Database Developer.

After finishing my degree in Physics from the University of Pune, India I headed south to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India) for my PhD in Biophysics.

I finished my PhD in 1997 in Protein Crystallography. I worked on proteins from Malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum. After my PhD I moved to University of Oxford and joined Dr. Dale Wigley's group in Sir W. Dunn School of Pathology. In the last couple of years I worked on DNA binding proteins in general and on Helicases in particular. My work related to understanding the mechanism of helicases.

After spending six years in crystallography I wanted to explore new areas and grabbed the first opportunity to join the MSD group in EBI.

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