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Sunanda Chhetry. Completed the Doctor of Philosophy in Biosciences and Bioengineering in 2025/02/21 by Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and Postgraduate Certificate in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in 2015/06/25 by Tezpur University. Is Postdoc in Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sunanda Chhetry

Citation names

  • Chhetry, Sunanda

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D811-64CD-7C9B
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4737-2296
Education
Degree Classification
2025/02/21
Concluded
Biosciences and Bioengineering (Doctor of Philosophy)
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
"Probing the unusual architecture of CRISPR machinery and its functional implications" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013/08/01 - 2015/06/25
Concluded
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Postgraduate Certificate)
Tezpur University, India
2010/07/01 - 2013/05/30
Concluded
Chemistry, Biotechnology, Microbiology (Bachelor)
Bangalore University, India
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2025/10/07 - Current Postdoc (Research) Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2025/01/20 - 2025/06/13 Research Assistant (Research) Umeå Universitet, Sweden
Umeå Universitet, Sweden
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Biswanath Bhunia; Navneet Joshi; Muthusivaramapandian Muhuraja. Bioprocess Engineering and Technology. 2025.
    10.1201/9781003133957
Book chapter
  1. Chhetry, Sunanda. "Conventional and Modern Genetic Approaches for Improvement of Industrially Important Strains". In Bioprocess Engineering and Technology, 60-88. 2025.
    Published
Preprint
  1. Chhetry, Sunanda. "Csb1 moonlighting gives rise to functional redundancy with Csb2 in processing the pre-CRISPR transcript in type I-G CRISPR-Cas system". 2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.19.504415.
    10.1101/2022.08.19.504415
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Probing the Unusual Architecture of CRISPR Machinery and its Functional Implications". PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 2024. https://gyan.iitg.ac.in/handle/123456789/2847.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/07/23 Investigating the maturation of CRISPR RNA in an atypical CRISPR-Cas System Physical and Computational Tools in Biology,
Norrland University Hospital, Umea University (Umeå, , Sweden)
2022/01/22 Investigating the maturation of CRISPR RNA in an atypical CRISPR-Cas syaem Research and Industrial Conclave 2022,
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. (Guwahati, India)
2021/11/25 Unravelling the CRISPR RNA Maturation in an atypical CRISPR-Cas System National conference on CRISPR/Cas: From Biology to Technology, 25- 27 November 2021,
SRM University (Andhra Pradesh) and Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (Bengaluru), India. (Bengaluru, India)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2026/02/13 - 2026/02/13 Instruct-PT day brings together the Portuguese structural biology community to explore the opportunities offered by Instruct-ERIC, the European Research Infrastructure for Structural Biology.
Meeting
Instruct-PT Day
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal
2019/02/12 - 2019/02/16 The meeting discussed structural methods available to identify lead molecules for drug development and also dwelt on all aspects of the drug discovery pipeline.
Workshop
Structure-Assisted Development of Novel Therapeutics
Regional Centre for Biotechnology, India

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2022/08/01 - 2023/05/30 Understanding the function of Cas and host proteins during CRISPR immunity Sandip Das Adhikary
2018/08/01 - 2019/05/30 Exploring the Functional Implication of an atypical domain combination in an effector Cas nuclease. Perwez Bakht
Distinctions

Award

2022 1st prize for oral presentation, Research and Industrial Conclave 2022, IITG
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
2019 Best poster prize, Structure Assisted Development of Novel Therapeutics, RCB Faridabad
Regional Centre for Biotechnology, India