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Amit Basu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Professor Basu is interested in questions that lie at the interface of chemistry, biology, and materials science. The capability to synthesize unnatural molecules which can serve as probes of biomolecular function is one of the focuses of Professor BasuÆs research. More specifically, Professor Basu investigates the transmembrane communication of the cell membrane, which is comprised primarily of lipids held together by non-covalent interactions. Much of the cellular communication across this lipid wall occurs via membrane spanning receptor proteins and channels that function as gates. However, there are several examples of communications being transmitted in the absence of any obvious gate, such as several interactions of cell surface glycoconjugates. Professor Basu is studying these non-canonical molecular recognition events so as to gain new insight into how cells interact and communicate with each other.
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996
Chemistry
B.A. Reed College, 1992
Chemistry
For more information, please see http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Amit_Basu