Education
PhD, Clemson University, 2022
Lab information
Shared Equipment Authority, a Rice University core facility housing 150+ equipments and providing training, fee for service, and consultation to users across Texas Medical Center area, including Rice University, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, and University of Houston.
https://research.rice.edu/sea/instruments/microscopes/microscope-lumicks-optical-tweezer
Publications
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=jj9KgLkAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&authuser=1SERS hotspots for sensing applications (2024, Under preparation)
• Godar, S., Oristian, J., Hinsch, V., Wentworth, K., Lopez, E., Enverso, G. and Alper, J. Light chain 2 is a Tctex-type related axonemal dynein light chain that regulates directional ciliary motility in T. brucei. PLoS Pathogen (2022) (Publication funded under the Open Access Funding Initiative Award, 2022)
• Pabbathi, A., Coleman, L., Godar, S., Paul, A., Garlapati, A., Spencer, M., Eller, J. and Alper, J., Long-Range Electrostatic Interactions Significantly Modulate the Affinity of Dynein for Microtubules. Biophysical Journal (2021)
• Ma, J.*, Saikia, N.*, Godar, S.*, Hamilton, G., Alper, J., Ding, F. and Sanabria, H., Ensemble switching unveils a kinetic rheostat mechanism of the eukaryotic thiamine pyrophosphate riboswitch. RNA (2021), * Equally contributing authors
• Li, L., Jia, Z., Peng, Y., Godar, S., Getov, I., Teng, S., Alper, J. and Alexov, E. Forces and Disease: Electrostatic force differences caused by mutations in kinesin motor domains can distinguish between disease-causing and non-disease-causing mutations. Scientific Reports (2017).