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Dr. Prasanna R Kolatkar
Senior Scientist
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Chemistry
BA in Biology
Entity
Qatar Biomedical Research Institute
Divison
Diabetes Research Center
Biography
Dr. Prasanna R Kolatkar graduated in structural biology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991. He has worked in the Michael Rossmann laboratory at Purdue University focusing on virus-receptor relationships. Dr. Kolatkar was also awarded the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund fellowship by Purdue University. He has experience working at the Bioinformatics Center, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, and Genome Institute of Singapore.
Dr. Kolatkar's current research involves understanding the molecular details of transcription factor (TF) complexes associated with stem cell biology with pancreatic development. His laboratory employs biochemistry and structural biology to discover how TFs generate function through combinatorial interactions.
PhD in Chemistry
University of Texas at Austin, United States
1991
BA in Biology
Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, United States
1985
BA in Chemistry
Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, United States
1985
- Mechanistic analysis of transcription factor networks
- TFs in pluripotency and their combinatorial code
- TFs in diabetes pathways
- X-ray crystallography
Senior Scientist
Qatar Biomedical Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2013 - Present
Group Leader
Laboratory for Structural Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
2001 - 2013
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2001 - 2013
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2001 - 2013
Principal Investigator
Bioinformatics Centre, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
2000 - 2001
- 2015; Thanaa Award for Professional Excellence, QBRI/QF
- 1999; Outstanding University Research Award, NUS
- 1992-1995; Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research (Post-doc)
- 1991; EAKIN Award for Research Excellence (Graduate Research) UT Austin