Dr. Siddhanta Nikte
Siddhanta completed her Bachelor's degree (Biotechnology) from Fergusson College, Pune, India. She then pursued a Master's degree in Bioinformatics at the Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University (2016). For her Master's thesis, she worked with Dr. Manali Joshi to study the interactions of novel antimicrobial peptides with membranes. She then began her Ph.D. at the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, in affiliation with the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, India under the guidance of Dr. Durba Sengupta. Her doctoral research focused on G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), investigating how amino acid residues, dynamic domains, and lipid environments modulate receptor function. Following her Ph.D., she worked as a DBT-Research associate with Dr. Arnab Gupta at IISER-Kolkata, India, exploring complex aspects of membrane proteins for a brief period. Currently, Siddhanta is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Cell Biology (CCB) Lab, where her interests lie in the structural modeling, molecular docking, and simulation of E3 ligases, with a focus on their roles in cellular signaling and targeted protein degradation.