IIT Gandhinagar | Faculty | Chemistry

Bhaskar Datta

Assistant Professor

	B.Sc.(Hons): University of Delhi, 1997 M.Sc.: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1999 Ph.D.: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 2004
	Email: bdatta @iitgn.ac.in Phone: +91-2397 2324 Fax: +91-79-2397 2622

Research Interest

Work Experience

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, (Dec 2011 – present)
Assistant Professor, Missouri State University, (Jun 2008 – Dec. 2011)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, (Jun-2004 to May-2008)
Graduate Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Chemistry, (Sep-1999 to May-2004)

Selected Recent Publications

Datta, S, G.; Dou, X.; Shibley, A.; Datta, B. "DNA template-assisted modulation of horseradish peroxidase activity", Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 50, 552-557, 2012.
Datta B. and Schuster G. B. "DNA-Directed Synthesis of Aniline and 4-Aminobiphenyl Oligomers: Programmed Transfer of Sequence Information to a Conjoined Polymer Nanowire", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 2965-2973, 2008.
Chen W., Josowicz M., Datta B., Schuster G. B., and Janata J. "In-Situ Electropolymerization of DNA-Templated Aniline Assemblies on a Gold Surface Electrochemical and Solid State Letters", 11(6), E11-E14, 2008.
Datta B. Schuster G. B., McCook A., Harvey S. and Zakrzewska K. "DNA-Directed Assembly of Polyanilines: Modified Cytosine Nucleotides Transfer Sequence Programmability to a Conjoined Polymer", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 14428-14429, 2006.
Datta B., Bier M., Roy S. and Armitage B. A. "Quadruplex Formation by a Guanine-Rich PNA Oligomer", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 4199-4207, 2005.
Datta B., Schmitt C. and Armitage B. A., "Formation of a PNA2-DNA2 Hybrid Quadruplex", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 4111-4118, 2003.