Kumaran Baskaran

Kumaran Baskaran

Kumaran Baskaran, PhD
Executive Editor
Senior Scientist, Department of Computational Biology
University of Connecticut Health Center, USA

Biography

Kumaran Baskaran works as Senior Scientist Biological Magnetic Resonance data Bank University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, USA.

Education: Completed PhD in 2005–2010, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. Thesis on Chemical shift optimization and ensemble averaging in protein NMR spectroscopy with Grade Magna cum laude (with great honors).

Professor in 2008–2010 in Homology modeling and protein structure refinement at  University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. Also developed many tools like BMRB data access and visualization tools in Python. EPPIC Computing pipeline to analyze protein interfaces in entire PDB. 

Serving as a reviewer for Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics. Published more than 20 publications.

Research Interest

NMR restraints validation tools,

Analysis of Proteins-protein interfaces

Bioinformatics