Design Management

Alok Juneja [pic]

Molecular Modelling Group

Institut f r Chemie

(Kristallographie)

Freie Universit t Berlin

Fabeckstra e 36a, D-14195, Berlin

Germany

Lab Tel: +49-30-838-*****

Home Tel: +49-30-551*****

Mobile: +49-163-*******

Email: *******@******.**-******.**

Personal details

Name Alok Juneja

Sex Male

D.O.B Sep 05, 1978

Birth place Mathura (India)

Nationality Indian

Education

Mar. 2004 - Pursuing Ph.D. in Indirect Drug Design by

Present computational approach on HIV-1 PR drugs and

understanding complex behaviour of polymers in

explicit and implicit solvent by applying

proposed optimized force field on poly ethylene

glycol (PEG). Institute f r Kristallographie,

Freie Universit t Berlin, Germany.

July 2002-June M.Sc. final (Organic Chemistry), B. R. Ambedkar

2003 University (formerly Agra University), India.

Accomplishment: Awarded distinction.

Mar. 2002-June Online graduate certificate in Bioinformatics,

2002 NUS, Singapore. The course conducted globally by

a conglomerate of six world class universities

including Stanford Univ., USA.

Accomplishment: Awarded distinction.

Aug. 2000-Dec. M.C.S., University of Illinois at Urbana

2001 Champaign, USA.

July 1999-June M.Sc. previous (Chemistry), Agra University,

2000 India.

July 1996-June B.Sc. (Life sciences), Agra University, India.

1999 Accomplishment: Topped the University with

distinction.

July 1994-June Senior Higher Secondary, C.B.S.E., India.

1996 Accomplishment: Awarded distinction & national

merit scholarship.

Work Experience

Mar. 2003-Mar. Research Associate, Biotechnology &

2004 Bio-Informatics division at Ranbaxy Research &

Development Labs, Gurgaon, Haryana, India. Worked

on JEMBOSS; Spotfire; GenMAPP; GPCR and P450

Databases; LIMS; Microarray data analysis and

management; GCG package.

Feb. 2003-June Honorary TA for graduate certificate course in

2003 Bioinformatics at NUS, Singapore.

Honours & Achievements

First position in B.Sc. in Agra University, India

Awarded distinction in Bio-informatics certificate course by NUS,

Singapore.

National merit scholarship from CBSE on the basis of class XII

exams.

Passed X, XII, B.Sc. and M.Sc. all with distinction.

Professional Expertise

MD packages CHARMM, NAMD

Skills Molecular Dynamics, Bio and Chemo informatics;

Software engineering; Database management

systems; Design of database management systems;

Computer system organization; Programming

languages and compilers; Combinatorial

algorithms; Operating system design; Advanced

operating systems; Object oriented design and

programming.

Working knowledge Unix (SUN OS); Linux; Mac OS X; Windows; Oracle;

Sql Server-7; Spotfire (Microarray Data

analysis/mining); GCG (Genomic Computing Group);

JEMBOSS.

Computer languages C/C++, Perl, R, Tcl, Shell script

Language skills

English Excellent

German Good

Hindi Mother tongue

Publications

Merging implicit with explicit solvent simulations: Polyethylene

glycol; Alok Juneja, Jorge Numata, Lennart Nilsson and E. W. Knapp;

submitted

Bound ligand conformer revealed by flexible structure alignment in

absence of crystal structures: Indirect drug design probed for HIV-1

protease inhibitors; Alok Juneja, Henning Riedesel, Milan Hodozc k

and E. W. Knapp; J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2009, 5 (3), pp 659-673

(DOI: 10.1021/ct8004886)

Accomplishment: Article figure on the cover page of the JCTC

http://pubs.acs.org/action/showLargeCover?issue=338107928

Discerning Relationships Among Human Cytochrome P450s by

Computational Analyses; Alok Juneja, Kulvinder Singh Saini and

Rajeev Soni; Bioinformatics Trends, 2006, 1(2), pp 1-12

Posters & Conferences

Indirect approach to drug design using MD for flexible structure

alignment: Application to HIV-1 protease inhibitors; Alok Juneja,

Henning Riedesel, Milan Hodozc k, Ernst Walter Knapp; Seventh

European workshop in drug design; Certosa di Pontignano, Siena

(Italy); May 24 - 30, 2009

Indirect drug design using MD for flexible structure alignment,

application to HIV-1 protease inhibitors; Alok Juneja, Henning

Riedesel, Milan Hodozc k, Ernst Walter Knapp; Latest Advances in

Drug Discovery Informatics; Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, USA;

October 13-16, 2008

Flexible structure alignment of HIV-1 protease inhibitors: Indirect

drug design approach; Alok Juneja, Henning Riedesel, Milan Hodozc k,

Ernst Walter Knapp; The 8th International Conference on Chemical

Structures; The Netherlands; June 01-05, 2008

Indirect drug design by flexible structure alignment applied to

HIV-1 protease inhibitors; Alok Juneja, Milan Hodozc k, Ernst Walter

Knapp; 3. German Conference on Chemoinformatics - 21. CIC-Workshop

Goslar; November 11-13, 2007

Drug design by flexible structure alignment applied to HIV-1

protease inhibitors: Indirect approach; Alok Juneja, Milan

Hodozc k, Ernst Walter Knapp; German Conference on Bioinformatics

2007 Potsdam; September 26-28, 2007

Discerning relationships among cytochrome P450s of different animal

species by computational analyses; Alok Juneja, Rajeev Soni,

Kulvinder Singh Saini; American Society of Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Annual Meeting and 8th IUBMB Conference;

Boston, Massachusetts, USA; June 12-16, 2004

Extra Curricular Activities

Swimming

Reading motivational books

References

Available upon request.

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