DR. RAVI S AMPAPATHI
 
  Asst. Professor (AcSIR), Senior Scientist & In charge,
Centre for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance,
Divn. of Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility
CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute
Lucknow-226031, U.P., India.
Phone: +91-522-+91-0522-2772450, Ext: 4618 (NMR); 4813(Wet Lab)
Mobile: +91-789-704-5555
web page:www.cdriindia.org/rsampapathy.htm
Google Scholar:http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=mzVeI-4AAAAJ&hl;=en
 
E-Mail [email protected],[email protected]
 
EDUCATION & AWARDS
Ph.D. (Chemistry) Osmania University (2004) (Work carried out at IICT, Hyderabad)
M.Sc.,(Chemistry) Sri Krishna Devaraya University (1998).
Long term visitor CERM, Florence, Italy (2002)
Pharmacoinformatics Fellow Gulf Coast region, Texas, U.S.A. (2005)
EMPOWER (Encouraging and Motivating Pursuit of World Class Exploratory Research) research grant by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) New Delhi. (2010)
CDRI Incentive Awards for excellent research work for the years 2012, 2013.
 
POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
Postdocotoral Fellow, University of Houston, TX, U.S.A., 2004-2007
Visiting Fellow, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.2007-2009
 
RESEARCH GROUP
Pancham Singh Kandiyal (JRF)
 Design, Conformational studies of linear and cyclic sugar amino acid (SAA) foldamers, Beta - Homoproline.
 Studies involving Beta- peptides as inhibitors for protein-protein interaction.
 
Shrikant Sharma (CSIR-SRF)
 Conformational studies of cyclic peptides with a3b and a3g architecture.
 Solution structural analysis of SIX3-protein and its mutants involved in Holoprosencephaly.
 
Gajendra Singh (CSIR-JRF)
 Conformational studies of cyclic deca and tetrapeptides.
 Studies on structural variations of Enzymatic domain of bacterial toxins by in-cell NMR.
 Solution structure studies on DNA binding protein and its interaction with DNA.
 
Faiyaz Alam (ICMR-JRF)
 Conformational studies of linear Gramicidin-S analogous peptide in solution and membrane mimicking media.
 Structural and conformational analysis of BRCT domain from Mycobacterium tuberculosis NAD dependent DNA ligase using solution NMR.
 
 
RESEARCH AREAS
Structure-Function studies of proteins by NMR, CD and other Biophysical techniques.
Insitu protein folding followed by incell NMR.
Design, synthesis and conformational analysis of bio-active Peptides and Peptidomimetics.
 
CURRENT RESEARCH PROGRAMS
Structure-function studies of bacterial toxin proteins
NMR Based screening of ligands with the receptor targets
Conformational Studies of Peptides & Peptidomimetics
 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 
“Furan based Locked Z-Vinylogous γ-Amino Acid Stabilizing α-Turn in Water-Soluble Cyclic α3γ Tetrapeptides. Yarkali Krishna, Shrikant Sharma, Ravi Sankar Ampapathi,* Dipankar Koley.* Organic Letters, 2014 (DOI: 10.1021/ol5002126)
“Trifluoroacetic Acid-Catalyzed Domino Reaction for Amino Acids Derived 2,3-Dihydro-1H-1,5-benzodiazepines Cyclic tetra peptides. Saurav Bera, Pancham S. Kandiyal, Ravi Sankar Ampapathi and Gautam Panda* SynLett, 2014, 25, A-F, (DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1340837)
“Peptidomimetics with tunable tertiary amide bond containing substituted -proline and beta-homoproline. Sandip Basu, Pancham S Kandiyal, Venkata Suresh Kumar Neelamraju, Harjinder Singh,* Ravi Sankar Ampapathi,* Tushar kanti Chakraborty.*Tetrahedron, 70, 1169-1175, 2014; (2014).
“Sugar-Modified Foldamers as Conformationally Defined and Biologically Distinct Glycopeptide Mimics. Aloysius Siriwardena,* Kiran Kumar Pulukuri, Pancham S Kandiyal, Saumya Roy, Omprakash Bande, Subhash Ghosh, José Manuel Garcia Fernández, Fernando Ariel Martin, Jean-Marc Ghigo, Christophe Beloin, Keigo Ito, Robert J Woods, Ravi Sankar Ampapathi,* Tushar Kanti Chakraborty.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 52, 10221-10226 (2013).
“Ti(III)-mediated radical cyclization of epoxy-β-aminoacrylate in the synthesis of the substituted pyrrolidine core of necine bases: synthesis of 2-epi-rosmarinecine. Sandip Basu, Pancham S. Kandiyal, Ravi Sankar Ampapathi, Tushar Kanti Chakraborty.* RSC Advances, 3, 13630-13634 (2013).
“Total synthesis of 29S,37(S)-isomer of malevamide E, a potent ion-channel inhibitor. Gajula PK, Sharma S, Ravi Sankar Ampapathi and Tushar K. Chakraborty* Org. Biomol. Chem., 11, 257-260 (2012).(Cover page article)
“Diversity Oriented Synthesis of Pyran Based Polyfunctional Stereogenic Macrocyles and Their Conformational Studies. Ajay A,Sharma S, Gupt MP, Bajpai V, Kumar B, Kaushik MP, Konwar Ravi Sankar Ampapathi* and Rama P. Tripathi* Organic Letters, 14, 4306-4309 (2012).
“ Robust turn structures in alpha3beta cyclic tetrapeptides induced and controlled by Carbo-beta3 Amino acid. Anindra Sharma, Shrikant Sharma, Rama P. Tripathi,* Ravi Sankar Ampapathi
“Stereoselective construction of quaternary chiral centers using Ti(III)-mediated opening of 2,3-epoxy alcohols: studies directed toward the synthesis of penifulvins.” T. K. Chakraborty,* A.K. Chattopadhyay, R. Samanta, Ravi S. Ampapathi. Tetrahedron letters, 51, 4425-4428 (2010).