Krishna Shivakumar
Visiting Assistant Professor of the Practice, Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health; Scientific Director, Cryo-TEM, Bioengineering & Life Sciences Initiative
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Notre Dame, IN 46556 - kshivaku@nd.edu
Biography
Krishna Shivakumar obtained his B.S. and M.S. degree in chemistry from Bangalore University, India. He joined Nanyang Technological University Singapore, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Chen Gang. His graduate studies focused mainly on targeting pathologically relevant duplex RNAs using chemically modified peptide nucleic acids.
He completed his first post-doctoral training with Professor Jessica A. Brown, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. After a brief research pursuit at Ohio State University, he returned to the University of Notre Dame to work under the supervision of Juan Del Valle, the W.K. Warren Family Professor for the Warren Family Research Center for Drug Discovery & Development and faculty director of structural biology for the Bioengineering & Life Science Initiative.
Shivakumar is currently a visiting assistant professor of the practice in the Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health and the Bioengineering & Life Science Initiative. He is serving as the scientific director of the cryo-EM facility, where he oversees operations, data acquisitions, processing, and user training for the Glacios 2 cryo-TEM instrument.