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Alok Juneja Curriculum vitae

Alok Juneja

Molecular Modelling Group

Institut für Chemie (Kristallographie)

Freie Universität Berlin

Fabeckstraße 36a, D-14195, Berlin

Germany

Tel: +49-030-********

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

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Personal details

Name Alok Juneja

Sex Male

D.O.B Sep 05, 1978

Birth place Mathura (India)

Nationality Indian

Education

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

approach on HIV-1 PR drugs and understanding complex

behaviour of polymers in explicit/implicit solvent using MD on

poly ethylene-glycol (PEG). Institute für Kristallographie, Freie

Universität Berlin, Germany.

July 2002-June 2003 M.Sc. final (Organic Chemistry), B. R. Ambedkar University,

Agra, (formerly Agra University), India.

Accomplishment: Awarded distinction.

Mar. 2002-June 2002 Online graduate certificate in Bioinformatics, NUS, Singapore.

The course conducted globally by a conglomerate of six world

class universities including Stanford Univ., USA.

Accomplishment: Awarded distinction.

Aug. 2000-Dec. 2001 M.C.S., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA.

July 1999-June 2000 M.Sc. previous (Chemistry), B. R. Ambedkar University, Agra,

India.

July 1996-June 1999 B.Sc. (Life sciences), B. R. Ambedkar University, Agra, India.

Accomplishment: Topped the University with distinction.

July 1994-June 1996 Senior Higher Secondary, C.B.S.E., India.

Accomplishment: Awarded distinction & national merit

scholarship.

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Alok Juneja Curriculum vitae

Work Experience

Mar. 2003-Mar. 2004 Research Associate, Biotechnology & 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 2003 Honorary TA for graduate certificate course in Bioinformatics

at NUS, Singapore.

Honours & Achievements

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

2. Awarded distinction in Bio-informatics certificate course by NUS, Singapore.

3. National merit scholarship from CBSE on the basis of class XII exams.

4. 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

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Alok Juneja Curriculum vitae

Publications

1. 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 Hodozcèk 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

2. 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

1. Indirect approach to drug design using MD for flexible structure alignment:

Application to HIV-1 protease inhibitors; Alok Juneja, Henning Riedesel,

Milan Hodozcèk, Ernst Walter Knapp; Seventh European workshop in drug

design; Certosa di Pontignano, Siena (Italy); May 24 - 30, 2009

2. Indirect drug design using MD for flexible structure alignment, application

to HIV-1 protease inhibitors; Alok Juneja, Henning Riedesel, Milan Hodozcèk,

Ernst Walter Knapp; Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Informatics; Bryn Mawr

College, Philadelphia, USA; October 13-16, 2008

3. Flexible structure alignment of HIV-1 protease inhibitors: Indirect drug

design approach; Alok Juneja, Henning Riedesel, Milan Hodozcèk, Ernst Walter

Knapp; The 8th International Conference on Chemical Structures; The

Netherlands; June 01-05, 2008

4. Indirect drug design by flexible structure alignment applied to HIV-1

protease inhibitors; Alok Juneja, Milan Hodozcèk, Ernst Walter Knapp; 3.

German Conference on Chemoinformatics - 21. CIC-Workshop Goslar;

November 11-13, 2007

5. Drug design by flexible structure alignment applied to HIV-1 protease

inhibitors: Indirect approach; Alok Juneja, Milan Hodozcèk, Ernst Walter

Knapp; German Conference on Bioinformatics 2007 Potsdam; September 26-28,

2007

6. 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

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Extra Curricular Activities

1. Swimming

2. Reading motivational books

References

Available upon request.

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