Publications

1. Hsp90 from plasmodium falciparum as a drug target against malaria: Biochemical characterization of PfHsp90 and evaluation of its inhibitor as a candidate drug.
   Rani Pallavi, Soundara Raghavan Pavithra, S. Venketesh, Pinaki Talukdar, Utpal Tatu.*
   Submitted.

2. Conformationally restricted nucleocyclitols: A study into their conformational preferences and supramolecular architecture in the solid state.
   Mehta, G.*; Talukdar, P.; Sen, S.; Venkatesh, P.
   European Journal of Organic Chemistry. ASAP.

3. Self-assembled artificial transmembrane ion channels. Mary S. Gin,* Emilly Schmidt, Pinaki Talukdar. In Nanobiotechnology II: More Concepts and Applications, Chad A. Mirkin, Christof M. Niemeyer Eds., Wiley-VCH Publishers, p. 3-15.

4. Photoproduction of proton gradients with pi-stacked fluorophore scaffolds in lipid bilayers.
   Sheshanath Bhosale, Adam L. Sisson, Pinaki Talukdar, Alexandre Fuerstenberg, Natalie Banerji, Eric Vauthey, Guillaume Bollot, Jiri Mareda, Cornelia Roeger, Frank Wuerthner, Naomi Sakai, Stefan Matile.*
   Science 2006, 313, 84-86.

5. Use of the exciton chirality method in the investigation of ligand-gated synthetic ion channels.
   Naomi Sakai, Pinaki Talukdar, Stefan Matile.*
   Chirality 2006, 18, 91-94.

6. Synthetic ligand-gated ion channels.
   Pinaki Talukdar, Guillaume Bollot, Jiri Mareda, Naomi Sakai, Stefan Matile.*
   Chemistry - European Journal 2005, 11, 6525-6532.

7. Molecular recognition by synthetic multifunctional pores in practice: Are structural studies really helpful?
   Yoann Baudry, Guillaume Bollot, Virginie Gorteau, Svetlana Litvinchuk, Jiri Mareda, Masamichi Nishihara, Dario Pasini, Florent Perret, Dawn Ronan, Naomi Sakai, Muhammad Raza Shah, Abhigyan Som, Nathalie Sorde, Pinaki Talukdar, Duy-Hien Tran, Stefan Matile.*
   Advanced Functional Materials 2006, 16, 169-179.

8. Synthetic ion channels with rigid-rod pi-stack architecture that open in response to charge-transfer complex formation.
   Pinaki Talukdar, Guillaume Bollot, Jiri Mareda, Naomi Sakai, Stefan Matile.*
   Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005, 127, 6528-6529.

9. Outer surface modification of synthetic multifunctional pores.
   Pinaki Talukdar, Naomi Sakai, Nathalie Sorde, David Gerard, Valerie M. F. Cardona, Stefan Matile.*
   Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 2004, 12, 1325-1336.

10. Catalytic rigid-rod beta-barrels with hydrazide cofactors to convert poor substrates as hydrazone conjugates.
    Abhigyan Som, Pinaki Talukdar, Bodo Baumeister, Stefan Matile.*
    Chimia 2003, 57, 208-209.

11. Bioorganic chemistry of rigid-rod molecules: Adventures with p-oligophenyls.
    Yoann Baudry, Bodo Baumeister, Gopal Das, Davis Gerard, Stefan Matile, Naomi Sakai, Abhigyan Som, Nathalie Sorde, Pinaki Talukdar.
    Chimia 2002, 56, 667-671.

12. Fluorometric detection of enzyme activity with synthetic supramolecular pores.
    Gopal Das, Pinaki Talukdar, Stefan Matile .*
    Science 2002, 298, 1600-1602.

13. A norbornyl route to aminocyclohexitols: syntheses of diverse aminocarbasugars and confused aminocarbasugars.
    Goverdhan Mehta,* Sripada Lakshminath, Pinaki Talukdar.
    Tetrahedron Letters 2002, 43, 335-338.

14. A general norbornyl based synthetic approach to carbasugars and confused carbasugars.
    Goverdhan Mehta,* Pinaki Talukdar, Narinder Mohal.
    Tetrahedron Letters 2001, 42, 7663-7666.

Journal/News/Press Coverage

1. From electron pump to proton channel. Kinbara K., Aida, T. Science, 2006, 313, 51-52 for the Publication - Science 2006, 313, 84-86.

2. A Holey supramolecular approach to the detection of enzyme activity. Gale, P. A. ChemBioChem, 2003, 4, 1299-1302 for the Publication - Science 2002, 298, 1600-1602.

Oral Presentations

1. Institute of Life Sciences, Hyderabad. Scientific Interaction Meeting at the Chemistry Biology Interface. (Date: Dec 8, 2008)

2. Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Kolkata, India. (Date: Sep 22, 2005)

3. Chemical Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India. (Date: Sep 20, 2005)

4. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. (Date: Sep 05, 2005)

5. Oppolzer Lectures, Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland. (Date: Oct 18, 2004)

Poster Presentations

1. Ligand-gated rigid-rod pi-barrel pores. Pinaki Talukdar, Stefan Matile. At Gordon Research Conferences on Organic Structure & Properties. Les Diablerets, Switzerland. (Date: Oct 10 - 15, 2004)

2. Beyond rigid-rod beta-barrels. Muhammad Raza Shah, Pinaki Talukdar, Stefan Matile. At the Fall Meeting of Swiss Chemical Society, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. (Date: Oct 09, 2003)

Symposia Attended

1. Chemical Biology. At the Conference Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale 3eme Cycle en Chimie., Champery, Switzerland. (Date: Sep 14 - 18, 2003)

2. Polymerization and Polymers. At the Conference Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale 3eme Cycle en Chimie., Champery, Switzerland. (Date: Sep 01 - 06, 2002)