@thepdbguy

Postdoc @UNC_SOM | PhD @ChBE_Illinois | Computational Biophysics | Chemical Engineering @ICTMumbai1933 | 🏳️‍🌈(he/him)

 Urbana, IL
Joined April 2011
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Prateek Bansal retweeted
Tanentzapf Lab@TanentzapfLabMar 3
1. For lots of people the hardest part of the paper to write is the discussion. Here is a a very brief guide: Paragraph 1: is a restatements of the two or three most important conclusions (starting with "here we showed", each conclusion gets 2-4 sentences).
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Applications are open for the 2026 ACS Pride Merck Graduate Research Award! Share this with anyone who might be interested in applying! Applications are due on Friday, Sept. 5th, 2025. Check out our website for more information! #ACSPride #ACS #ElevatingProfessionalism #LGBTQ
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Prateek Bansal retweeted
Shukla Group@ShuklaGroup13 Nov 2024
Congratulations to Prateek Bansal @thepdbguy for winning the ACS PRIDE Merck Graduate Research Award from American Chemical Society! @AmerChemSociety @ChBEIllinois @LASillinois chbe.illinois.edu/news/stori…

Bansal receives ACS Pride Merck Graduate Research Award

Bansal receives ACS Pride Merck Graduate Research Award

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Prateek Bansal retweeted
ACS PROF Division@ACSPROF24 Oct 2024
Congratulations to the seven 2025 ACS Pride Merck Graduate Research Award recipients! Read more here: tinyurl.com/MerckPROF Stay tuned for more information as the seven will speak at the 2025 ACS Spring Meeting in San Diego. #QueerInSTEM #STEMPride #ResearchExcellence #Award
Seven headshots of the 2025 recipients of the ACS Pride Merck Graduate Research Award are shown on a tan background with their names, pronounces, and institution are displayed. Additionally, the Merck green and gray name logo are shown under the "sponosred by" byline. The ACS PROF Divsion and Pride subdivision logos are also on the graphic.

ALT Seven headshots of the 2025 recipients of the ACS Pride Merck Graduate Research Award are shown on a tan background with their names, pronounces, and institution are displayed. Additionally, the Merck green and gray name logo are shown under the "sponosred by" byline. The ACS PROF Divsion and Pride subdivision logos are also on the graphic.

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What do we want? A protein emoji! When do we want it? Ala-Ser-Ala-Pro
Andrew White 🐦‍⬛
@andrewwhite019 Oct 2024
Is it time for the protein emoji to return? Can we overcome the past unicode rejection now with the tailwinds of the Nobel Prize? Can proteins be recognized as important as 🫘 or 🙎or 🥀?
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Congratulations Prof. Shukla! @diwakarshukla
ChBE Illinois@ChBEIllinois6 Mar 2024
Replying to @diwakarshukla
@diwakarshukla received the 2023-2024 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research. This award is given annually by The Grainger College of Engineering in recognition of outstanding research. Shukla said he is inspired by his student researchers, collaborators and mentors at Illinois.
Shukla group members in plant sciences laboratory green house at the University of Illinois in May 2023. Left to right, on ground: Anh Nguyen, Xuenan Mi, Rabindranath Paul, Prateek Bansal, Soumajit Dutta, Sarah Lindley and Nicole Chiang. Left to right, sitting: Yiyang Lu, Tanner Dean, Hassan Nadeem, Diego Kleiman, Song Yin, Austin Weigle, Krishna Narayanan and Arnav Paul. Left to right, standing: Diwakar Shukla, Joseph Clark and Lingyun Xu.

ALT Shukla group members in plant sciences laboratory green house at the University of Illinois in May 2023. Left to right, on ground: Anh Nguyen, Xuenan Mi, Rabindranath Paul, Prateek Bansal, Soumajit Dutta, Sarah Lindley and Nicole Chiang. Left to right, sitting: Yiyang Lu, Tanner Dean, Hassan Nadeem, Diego Kleiman, Song Yin, Austin Weigle, Krishna Narayanan and Arnav Paul. Left to right, standing: Diwakar Shukla, Joseph Clark and Lingyun Xu.

Diwakar Shukla

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Happy to share the publication of our paper in @Nature Conformational ensembles of the human intrinsically disordered proteome Work led by @GiulioTesei and @AnnaIdaTrolle. I'll post more later, but for now here is a link: nature.com/articles/s41586-0… and a short movie about the work
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Prateek Bansal retweeted
Shukla Group@ShuklaGroup7 Dec 2023
Join us for the thesis defense of Austin Weigle on Dec 14 at 9 am in RAL171 to learn about substrate selectivity of membrane sugar #transporters in #plants! DM us for the zoom link. @shuklagroup @ChemistryUIUC @ChBEIllinois
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Prateek Bansal retweeted
Shukla Group@ShuklaGroup9 Nov 2023
Please join us for Soumajit Dutta’s @SoumajitDutta5 thesis defense on “Molecular Mechanism of Ligand Induced Regulation of #Cannabinoids Receptors” Friday, Nov 10 at 9:30 am in CLSL B102. @ChBEIllinois @diwakarshukla @LASillinois
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Check out our new manuscript explaining the difference between the effects of new psychoactive substances and classical cannabinoids on cannabinoid receptors. @ShuklaGroup We thank the @foldingathome donors for providing us computing time for this work.
bioRxiv Biophysics@biorxiv_biophys2 Oct 2023
Transition-based reweighting and neural rational inference analysis of effects of new psychoactive substances on cannabinoid receptors biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_biophys
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Transition-based reweighting and neural rational inference analysis of effects of new psychoactive substances on cannabinoid receptors biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_biophys
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Check out our recent work on explaining subtype selectivity of #cannabinoid receptors. @ShuklaGroup
Communications Biology@CommsBio5 May 2023
MD simulations and Markov state modeling provide mechanistic insight into the subtype selectivity of agonists of cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2. @SoumajitDutta5 @diwakarshukla @ShuklaGroup nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
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Prateek Bansal retweeted
Shukla Group@ShuklaGroup4 Apr 2023
Check out this beautiful #CoverArt and our recent work on Activation Mechanism of the Smoothened Receptor, class F #GPCR involved in #cancer. @thepdbguy @SoumajitDutta5 @diwakarshukla @ChBEIllinois @UofIResearch @BiophysJ
Biophysical Journal@BiophysJ4 Apr 2023
Read about the cover art for the newly released issue of Biophysical Journal on the BPS Blog: ow.ly/yX9T50NA27S @thepdbguy @ShuklaGroup @ChBEIllinois
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Read about the cover art for the newly released issue of Biophysical Journal on the BPS Blog: ow.ly/yX9T50NA27S @thepdbguy @ShuklaGroup @ChBEIllinois
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Prateek Bansal retweeted
Shukla Group@ShuklaGroup21 Feb 2023
How human #smoothened, a Class F #GPCR transports cholesterol from membrane to the orthosteric binding site? Check out our work by Prateek Bansal @thepdbguy at poster #B213 in Exhibit Hall BC tomorrow! #BPS2023
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Prateek Bansal retweeted
Shukla Group@ShuklaGroup17 Feb 2023
Congratulations @thepdbguy for winning the 2022 SCS Science Image Challenge award!
ChBE Illinois@ChBEIllinois17 Feb 2023
This week we celebrated the winners and finalists at the 2022 SCS Science Image Challenge award ceremony! 📸 🏆 Check out these images when you @IFlyCU! ✈️ Gallery ▶️ go.illinois.edu/2022SCSImage…
Compilation image of the winners standing next to their scientific image.

ALT Compilation image of the winners standing next to their scientific image.

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Prateek Bansal retweeted
ChBE Illinois@ChBEIllinois17 Feb 2023
This week we celebrated the winners and finalists at the 2022 SCS Science Image Challenge award ceremony! 📸 🏆 Check out these images when you @IFlyCU! ✈️ Gallery ▶️ go.illinois.edu/2022SCSImage…
Compilation image of the winners standing next to their scientific image.

ALT Compilation image of the winners standing next to their scientific image.

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Yay! Thank you @ACSCentSci for choosing my cover art!
ACS Central Science@ACSCentSci14 Oct 2022
#ICYMI Our new issue is live. Read here: go.acs.org/2ut Cover story by @theSchroederlab @diwakarshukla @BeckmanInst @ChBEIllinois
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Prateek Bansal retweeted
Huafeng Xu@hardsphere2 Oct 2022
Another tour de force of high throughput virtual screening, with an impressive hit rate of 63%. doi.org/10.1126/science.abn7…

Structure-based discovery of nonopioid analgesics acting through the α2A-adrenergic receptor

A high-throughput virtual screen followed by experimental testing generates therapeutic leads for non-opioid pain killers

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Check out our new manuscript in @ACSCentSci! We used a combination of lab experiments and computational modeling to figure out how supercharged protomers assemble! My journal cover also made it to the final submission! Yay! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102… @diwakarshukla @theSchroederLab
Supercharged proteins assembling. Image rendered in Blender.

ALT Supercharged proteins assembling. Image rendered in Blender.

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