Suvarn S. Kulkarni

Professor

Room 211, Chemistry Bldg.
suvarn@chem.iitb.ac.in
+91 22 2576 7166
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Educational Background:

Ph.D. Univeristy of Pune
M.Sc. Univeristy of Pune
B.Sc. Univeristy of Pune

Professional Experience:

Post-doc., Academia Sinica, Taipei
Post-doc., University of California, Davis
Assistant Professor, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (2008)
Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay (2009)
Associate Professor, IIT Bombay (2012)
Professor, IIT Bombay (2016)
Research Interest:

One-pot methods for glycomics
Synthesis of cell-surface carbohydrates - oligosaccharides, glycolipids and glycoconjugates
Study of carbohydrate recognition in infectious diseases and Cancer

Publications:
Total Syntheses of Conjugation-Ready Trisaccharide Repeating Units of Pseudomonas aeruginosa O11 and Staphylococcus aureus Type 5 Capsular Polysaccharide for Vaccine Development
Behera, Archanamayee; Rai, Diksha; Kulkarni Suvarn S.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 1, 456-467
A Virulence-Associated Glycolipid with Distinct Conformational Attributes: Impact on Lateral Organization of Host Plasma Membrane, Autophagy, and Signaling
Dadhich, Ruchika; Mishra, Manjari; Ning, Shangbo; Jana, Santanu; Sarpe, Vikram A; Mahato, Jaladhar; Duan, Mojie; Kulkarni, Suvarn S.; Kapoor, Shobhna.
ACS Chem. Biol. 2020, 15, 740-750.
Novel Protecting Groups for Oligosaccharides Synthesis
Bhaswati Ghosh and Suvarn S. Kulkarni
Chemistry An Asian Journal, 2019
Total Synthesis of the Lipid-Anchor-Attached Core Trisaccharides of Lipoteichoic Acids of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus oralis Uo5
Balasaheb K. Ghotekar, Ananda Rao Podilapu, and Suvarn S. Kulkarni
Org. Lett., 2019
Assembling Glycan-Charged Dolichol Phosphates: Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of a Haloferax volcanii N-Glycosylation Pathway Intermediate.
Elharar, Yifat; Podilapu, Ananda Rao; Guan, Ziqiang; Kulkarni, Suvarn S.; Eichler, Jerry.
Bioconjugate Chem., 2017, 28, 2461-2470
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