Jayanti Pande

Curriculum Vitae

Education

1974-1979

Ph.D., (1980, Biophysical Chemistry)

The University at Albany, State University of New York

Albany, New York, USA

1969-1971

M.Sc., (1971, Physical Chemistry), Physics, Math (subsidiary subjects)

University of Delhi, Delhi, India

1966-1969

B.Sc., (1969, Honors Course in Chemistry)

Physics and Math (subsidiary subjects)

University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Positions Held

Sept. 2005, Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry

State University of New York at Albany

Albany, NY, USA

Aug. 1989 - Aug. 2005, Research Associate

Department of Physics, MIT

Cambridge, MA, USA

Aug. 1988 - Jul. 1989, Visiting Scientist

Department of Physics, MIT

Cambridge, MA, USA

Jan. 1987 - Jun. 1988, Visiting Associate

Research Scientist, Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University

College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY, USA

Jan. 1983 - Aug. 1986, Wissenschaftliche

Mitarbeiterin, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland

Sept. 1979 - Aug. 1982, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dept. of Physics, City College of New York

New York, NY, USA

Jan. 1974 - May 1979, Research/Teaching Assistant

Dept. of Chemistry, State Univ. of New York at Albany

Albany, NY, USA

Sept.1973 - Dec. 1973, Teaching Assistant

Dept. of Chemistry, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook

Stony Brook, NY, USA

July 1971 - Aug. 1973, Lecturer

Dept. of Chemistry, Gargi College, University of Delhi

New Delhi, India

Selected Recent Publications

• Pande, A., Ghosh, K.S., Banerjee, P.B. and Pande, J. (2010) " Increase in surface hydrophobicity of the Cataract-Associated, P23T Mutant of Human γ D-Crystallin is Responsible for Its Dramatically Lower, Retrograde Solubility" Biochemistry,49, 6122-6129. doi 10.1021/bi100664s.
• Xie,L., Chou, S.-G., Pande, A., Pande, J., Zhang, J., Dresselhaus, M. S., Kong, J. and Zhongfan Liu, Z. (2010) " Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Probing the Denaturation of Lysozyme" J. Phys. Chem. C, 114, 7717–7720. doi 10.1021/jp9121497.
• Danysh, B. P., Patel, T. P., Czymmek, K. J., Edwards, D. A., Wang, L. Pande, J. and Duncan, M. K. (2010) "Characterizing molecular diffusion in the lens capsule" Matrix Biology, 29, 228-236. doi: 10.1016/j.matbio.2009.12.004
• Pande, A., Gillot, D. and Pande, J. (2009) “The cataract-linked R14C mutant of human γD-crystallin forms multiple protein-protein Disulfide Crosslinks: A Raman spectroscopic study.” Biochemistry, 48, 4937-4945 doi.10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.03.007
• Pande, A. Zhang, J., Banerjee, P. R., Puttamadappa, S. S. and Shekhtman, A. and Pande, J. (2009) “NMR study of the cataract-linked P23T mutant of human γD-crystallin shows minor changes in hydrophobic patches that reflect its retrograde solubility.” Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 382, 196-199. doi.10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.03.007
• Wu,Y., Fishkin, N.E., Pande, A., Pande, J. and Sparrow, J. R.(2009) "Novel Lipofuscin bisretinoids Prominent in human Retina and in a model of Recessive Stargardt Disease", J. Biol. Chem. 284, 20155-20166. http://www.jbc.org/cgi/doi/10.1074/jbc.M109.021345
• McManus, J., Lomakin, A., Ogun, O., Pande, A., Basan, M., Pande, J. and Benedek,G.B. (2007) "Altered Phase Diagram Due to a Single Point Mutation in Human Gamma-D Crystallin". Proc Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A., 104, 16856-61 (referenced on the cover, Epub. Oct 8, 2007).
• Pande, A., Anunziata, O., Asherie, N., Ogun, O, Benedek, G. B., and Pande, J. (2005) “Decrease in Protein solubility and cataract formation caused by the Pro23 to Thr mutation in human γ D-crystallin ”. Biochemistry, 44, 2491-2500 (designated as “Hot Article”).