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PhD- Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore MSc- Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore.

Macromolecular crystallography, Biophysical techniques, Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics.

Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, CUG from August 2017 till date.
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Advanced Research from July 2010 to August 2017.

Recipient of DBT BIOCARE Women Scientist Award
SERB Young Scientist Award
Junior & Senior Research Fellowship (2004-2009) from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India.
Gold Medalist for M.Sc Biotechnology from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.

Kulkarni PG, Shah N, Waghela BN, Pathak CM, Pappachan A Leishmania donovani adenylate kinase 2a prevents ATP-mediated cell cytolysis in macrophages. Parasitol Int. 2019 May 17;72:101929. doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2019.101929. [Epub ahead of print].
Patel B, Patel D, Parmar K, Chauhan R, Singh DD, Pappachan A. L. donovani XPRT: Molecular characterization and evaluation of inhibitors. Biochim Biophys Acta- Proteins and Proteomics. 2018 Mar,1866(3), 426-441.
Patel DK., Shah KR., Pappachan A, Gupta S, Singh DD. Cloning, expression and characterization of a mucin binding GAPDH from Lactobacillus acidophilus. 2016 Int J Biol Macromol. 91: 338-346.
Pappachan A, Subashchandrabose C, Satheshkumar PS, Savithri HS, Murthy MR. A single point mutation disrupts the capsid assembly in Sesbania Mosaic Virus resulting in a stable isolated dimer. Virology. 2009 Sep 30:392(2):215-21 (cover page article).
Pappachan A, Savithri HS, Murthy MR. Structural and functional studies on a mesophilic stationary phase survival protein (Sur E) from Salmonella typhimurium. FEBS J. 2008 Dec;275(23):5855-64.
Pappachan A, Subashchandrabose C, Satheshkumar PS, Savithri HS, Murthy MR. Structure of recombinant capsids formed by the β-annulus deletion mutant - rCP (?48-59) of Sesbania Mosaic Virus. Virology. 2008 May 25;375(1):190-6. (cover page article)

Kumar M, Ranjan K, Singh V, Pathak C, Pappachan A, Singh DD. Hydrophilic Acylated Surface Protein A (HASPA) of Leishmania donovani: Expression, Purification and Biophysico-Chemical characterization. 2017 Protein J 36: 343-351.
Shah KR., Patel DK., Pappachan A, Ratna Prabha C, Singh DD. Characterization of a Kunitz-type serine protease inhibitor from Solanum tuberosum having lectin activity. 2016 Int J Biol Macromol. 83: 259-269.
Singh V, Nair DN., Kaushal RS, Kumar M, Pappachan A, Singh DD. Heterologous expression, purification and characterization of L-type lectin homologue from Leishmania donovani. Biotechnology Reports. 2015 8:81-87.