Md Chayan Ali
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Philosophy;
"The hard truth is you will die one day, but it's your work that will persist forever".
"One individual plus another individual can make a lot more than two: Collaboration!"
Research Interests: Computational & Structural Biology, Protein engineering/therapeutics, Infectious disease & Vaccinology.
Laboratory Expertise: Cell culture & growth curve analysis, AMR profiling, qPCR, Biochemical assays, Protein expression & extraction, Virus-like particle synthesis & purification, FPLC, HPLC, SDS-PAGE, PEA (Proximity extension assay), PLA (Proximity ligation assay), BCA, Spectrophotometry, Column/thin layer chromatography, Size Exclusion Chromatography, QuickChange Mutagenesis, Microscale Thermophoresis (MST), Surface Plasmon Resonance, Temperature Shift Assay, Western Blot, Immunoinformatics etc.
Computational Biology & Software Skills: Virtual screening, Molecular docking, Dynamics & Immune simulations, Drug Design & Characterization, SNP Analysis, Schrödinger suite, Discovery studio, ChimeraX, GraphPad Prism, Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop, ImageJ (Fiji), BioRender etc.
Programming Skills: Bash (basic), R, Python.
Work Experience:
Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Texas at Austin, USA (Aug 2023- current)
Research Assistant at The Netherlands Cancer Institute/Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AvL) (Jan 2023- June 2023)
Research Intern at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden (Mar 2022-July 2022)
Research Intern at SciLifeLab, Uppsala University, Sweden (Oct 2021-Dec 2021)
Research Assistant at Islamic University, Bangladesh (Aug 2019-Aug 2021)
Alma mater
International Master in Innovative Medicine (2021-2023)
Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Scholarship
Uppsala University, Sweden
University of Groningen, Netherlands
Master of Science (MSc) in Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (2019-2022).
Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh
Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (2015-2019).
Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh
Major courses: Biotechnology, Microbiology, Molecular biology, Biochemistry, Organic chemistry, Immunology, Cell signalling, Oncology, Virology, Human physiology, Genetics, Medical/pharmaceutical/industrial biotechnology, Molecular diagnostics, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Molecular biology of diseases, Protein engineering etc.