From: POSTMASTER@NBRF.GEORGETOWN.EDU
Newsgroups: bionet.jobs
Subject: Seeking Biotechnology Position
Date: 13 Nov 92 20:36:14 GMT
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US permanent resident from India with extensive experience is seeking
employment in the biotechnology fields of molecular modeling or protein
sequencing.  Would prefer an opportunity in the Baltimore-Washington area,
but am willing to relocate family elsewhere in the US.


                             RESUME


  Name:               Muthuchidambaram Prabhakaran

  Business Address:   US Army CRDEC
                      Analytical Division
                      SMCCR-RSL
                      Aberdeen Proving Ground
                      MD 21010-5423.
  Phone:              410-671-5702

  Home Address:       903 Winters Ct
                      Bel Air
                      MD 21014
  Phone:              410-836-0745

  Visa Status:        Permanent Resident

  Education:          B. S. Physics
                      Annamalai University. A'Nagar, India.
                      1965-68.

                      M. S. Physics
                      Annamalai University, A'Nagar, India.
                      1968-70.
                        
                      Ph. D. Bio Physics
                      University of Madras, India.
                      1976-81.
  
                      Post Doctoral Associate in Biochemistry
                      University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL35294.

  Experience:         Dec 1991 - present
                      Chemist
                      Analytical Division
                      US Army CRDEC
                      Aberdeen Proving Ground
                      MD 21010-5423.

                      1988-1991
                      Visiting Assistant Professor
                      Dept of Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy
                      University of Illinois at Chicago
                      Chicago IL 60680.
                          
                      1987-88
                      Research Instructor
                      Dept of Gerentology
                      University of Alabama at Birmingham
                      Birmingham, AL 35294

                      1982-1983
                      Lecturer, Dept of Biophysics
                      University of Madras
                      Madras, India.

                      1980-1982
                      Assistant Professor
                      Department of Physics
                      E. V. R. Periyar College
                      Tiruchirapalli, India.

                      1975-1976
                      Assistant Professor
                      Department of Physics
                      Kilpauk Medical college
                      Madras, India.

                      1971-1975
                      Assistant Professor
                      Department of Physics
                      Presidency College
                      Madras, India.

                      1970-1971
                      Demonstrator
                      Department of Physics
                      Arts College
                      Mayuram, India.

Modeling Experience:
   Familiar with IBM 370/155 system during graduate studies.
   Experience in VAX 11/785, Microvax 3000, IBM 3090, Cray and Iris
   workstations for research.
   Using CHARMM and GROMOS (modified) software for molecular      
   mechanics calculations.
   Experience with IMSL, DISSPLA, SAS, Gaussian 86 and other software.
   Experience with Graphics systems: PS300, Silicon Graphics Iris 
   Workstation. Graphics software: FRODO, SYBYL, and INSIGHT.
   Vornoi polyhedran approach for QSAR studies.

Programming Experience:
   Main Programming Language: Fortran with special interest in
   Artificial Intelligence (prolog).
   Wrote all programs for graduate work.
   Modified Gromos software for DNA and Cyclodextrin problems.
   Developed new grid search method for binding site location and 
   wrote all relevant programs.
                  
Instrumental Experience:
   Liqiud Chromatography:
     systems ABI 120a, 130a, 140b, Waters 625, Beckman 345
   Protein Sequencer:
     ABI 477A
   Capillary Electrophoresis:
     Dionex

Major Research Projects:
   a) Structural Transitions in tRNA during Amino Acid Synthesis  
      (Prof. Stephen C. Harvey)
   b) Model building of Polysaccharides from NOE data 
      (Prof. N. R. Krishna)
   c) Signal Peptides and Model for protein Translocation through
      Membrane (Prof. Jere P. Segrest)
   d) Conformational aspects of Amphipathic peptides
      (Dr. Anantharamiah of Prof. Segrest's group)
   e) Structural model for protein spectrin from sequence 
      (Prof. L. W.-M. Fung)
   f) Dynamics of Sickle cell gelation and the design of 
      antisickling compounds (Prof Michael E. Johnson)
   g) Structure & Function of Amelogenin (Prof. M. J. Glimchar)
   h) Design of Neuropeptide analogs (Dr. A. Balasubramaniam)

Current Project:
      Purification and enzyme digestion of protein Neurotoxin and
      primary structure determination by sequencing  and model
      their structure and design of new analogs.

External Research Support (as Principal Investigator):
  Folding arrangements of Glycoproteins:
    Cystic Fibrosis Research Center (1984-85)
  Senior Fellowship: Chicago Heart Association (1988-1989)
  Grant in Aid: Chicago Heart Association (1990-1992)

Professional references and publications available upon request.