Atul Kumar Johri | Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University

Atul Kumar Johri

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

School of Life Sciences

Room No

Office: 404, Lab: 409

Off. Phone

91-11-26704511

ajohri@mail.jnu.ac.in akjohri14@yahoo.com

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/ajohri

Qualifications

M.PhiL. (1992): Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi.
Ph.D. (1995): Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi.

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Microbial pathogenesis, Membrane Proteins structure, Nanotechnology for rapid detection of pathogens. Host-microbe interaction.

Experience

Feb 2014 - till date : Professor, School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, India
Feb 2008 - Feb 2014: Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, India
June, 2004 - Feb 2008: Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, India
August 2011 - October 2011: Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, USA
May, 2007: Visiting Scientist, Queensland Institute of Medical research, Brisbane, Australia
March 2002 - June 2004: Research fellow in Medicine Channing laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
July 2000 - March 2002: Post Doctoral Associate, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Centre, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA.
April 2000 - July 2000: Post Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemical Engineering University California, and Riverside, California, USA.
May 1997 - April 2000: Senior Research Associate, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Delhi, India.
March1997 - May 1997: UNESCO-Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Dec1995 - February 1997: Senior Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, India

Awards & Honours

1. Junior Research Fellowship, Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi-Delhi, India. (1993).
2. Senior Research Fellowship, Council of Scientific and Industrial research Govt. of India (1994).
3. UNESCO-Young Scientist Award in Biotechnology, Paris, France (1997) to visit Department of Chemical engineering , University of Waterloo, Canada.
4. Senior Research Associate, Chemistry Dept. University of Delhi, Delhi, India (1997-2000).
5. Post Doctoral Fellowship at Chemical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA (2000).
6. Post Doctoral Associate at Bioengineering Centre, Tufts University, Medford MA, USA (2000-2002).
7. Research Fellowship in Medicine at Channing Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (2002-2004).
8. Travel fellowship from DBT, Govt of India to attend the conference on infectious disease held at Lisbon (2006).
9. Department of Biotechnology, DBT, Govt of India, Biotechnology overseas fellowship (2009-10).
10. American Society for Microbiology Research Professorship to work in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Stroud University of California, San Francisco, USA (2011).
11. Guest of Honor, Kirorimal College (KMC), Delhi University, Delhi (2012)

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Patents (if any)