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Priyanka Banerjee, (Dr.rer.nat.)
Campus mitte (Oscar Hertwig-Haus 3311, Ebene 2, Rooom 02.017)
10115 Berlin
email: priyanka.banerjee[AT]charite.de
telephone: +49-(0)30-450-528-505
Network: LinkedIn
Visiting hours for students : Tuesday and Thursday after 14.00 hrs.
Research interests
- Cheminformatics
- Insilico toxicity with respects to models alternatives/reduction to animal trials
- Computer-aided drug discovery
- Drug repositioning
- Immunoinformatics
Research experience / Education
- Lecturer, Freie University Berlin (Bioinformatics/Cheminformatics), 2016-present
- Postdoctorate Research Associate, Institute of Physiology Charite, 2016-present
- PhD, Humboldt University Berlin, 2013-2016
- Member of the Graduate School of Computational Systems Biology,Humboldt University Berlin, 2013-2016
- Visiting Scientist, LIAI San Diego, USA , Oct 2014-May 2015
- Master of Life Science Informatics, University of Bonn, 2010-2012
- Student Research Assistant, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, 2012-2013
- Bachelor of Science (Biotechnolgy, Zoology, Bio-chemistry), Bangalore University, 2005-2009
- Advanced Diploma in Genetic Engineering, Jain Institute, Bangalore, 2007-2008
Current projects
- Prediction and Analysis of chemical structure with respect to rodent acute oral toxicity- ProTox (Alternative to /reduction of animal testing)
- Prediction and Analysis of hepatotoxic drugs related to Cytochrome P450 induction/inhibition
- Prediction of novel drugs responsible for fatty liver disease in context of metabolic network
- Potential drug repositioning opportunities for Ebola Virus Disease
- Development of novel in silico method for the prediction of biosynthetic pathways
Publications
- Banerjee P, Eckert O.A, Schrey A and Preissner R
ProTox-II - a webserver for the prediction of toxicity of chemicals
Nucleic Acids Res (2018) April 13 (accepted), IF:10.162
- Banerjee P and Preissner R
BitterSweetForest: Forest Based Binary Classifier to Predict Bitterness and Sweetness of Chemical Compounds.
Front. Chem. 6:93. 2018 April 11 IF:3.994
- Oluyomi S.A, Olubunmi A, Banerjee P, Arolasafe G, Preissner R, Etukudoh P and Ibraheem O .
Computational and experimental validation of antioxidant properties of synthesized bioactive ferulic acid derivatives.
International Journal of Food Properties, 2018 Feb 09. IF:1.427
- Erukainure OL, Hafizur RM, Kabir N, Choudhary MI, Atolani O, Banerjee P, Preissner R, Chukwuma CI, Muhammad A, Amonsou EO and Islam MS.
Suppressive Effects of Clerodendrum volubile P Beauv. [Labiatae] Methanolic Extract and Its Fractions on Type 2 Diabetes and Its Complications.
Front. Pharmacol. 9:8. 2018 Feb 01. IF:4.4
- Banerjee P , Schrey A. K. and Preissner R.
Computational Methods for the Prediction of Chemical Toxicity
pharmazeutische medizin, 2017 Mar 21, ISSN 2191-6039
- Erukainure O.L, Hafizur R.M, Choudhary M.I, Adhikari A, Mesaik A.M, Atolani O, Banerjee P , Preissner R, Muhammad A and Islam MS
Anti-diabetic effect of the ethyl acetate fraction of Clerodendrum volubile: protocatechuic acid suppresses phagocytic oxidative burst and modulates inflammatory cytokines.
J Biomed Pharmacother.2016 Dec 21;86:307-315. IF: 2.326
- Banerjee P, Siramshetty V.B, Drwal M.N. and Preissner R
Computational methods for prediction of in vitro effects of new chemical structures
J Cheminform (2016) 8:51. IF: 3.949
- Drwal M.N, Siramshetty V.B, Banerjee P, Goede A, Preissner R and Dunkel M (2015)
Molecular similarity-based predictions of the Tox21 screening outcome
Front. Environ. Sci. 3:54. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2015.00054 [PDF] - I.G. Metushi, A. Wriston,P. Banerjee, B.O. Gohlke, A.M. English, A. Lucas, C. Moore, J. Sidney, S. Buus, D.A. Ostrov, S.
Mallal, E. Phillips, J. Shabanowitz, D.F. Hunt, R. Preissner and B. Peters
Acyclovir Has Low but Detectable Influence on HLA-B*57:01 Specificity without Inducing Hypersensitivity.
PLoS ONE 10(5): e0124878 (2015). IF: 4.411 - P.Banerjee, J.Erehman, B.O Gohlke,T.Wilhelm, R.Preissner and M.Dunkel
Super Natural II: A database of natural products
Nucleic Acids Res.(Database issue) (2014) IF: 8.81 - J.Nickel, B.O Gohlke, J.Erehman, P. Banerjee, W. W. Rong,A.Goede, M.Dunkel and R.Preissner
SuperPred: Update on drug classification and target prediction
Nucleic Acids Res.(Webserver issue) (2014) IF: 8.026 - M. Drwal, P. Banerjee, M. Dunkel, M. Wettig and R. Preissner
ProTox: A web server for the in silico prediction of rodent oral toxicity
Nucleic Acids Res. 42(Webserver issue W1) : W53-58. IF: 8.026
Theses supervision
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Current
- Development of novel in silico method for the prediction of biosynthetic pathways (Master thesis: Moritz Grahl)
- Validation and Graphical User Interface Design of OPAS (Master thesis: Vinoth Mohanakrishnan) Completed
- Ebru Shn
Literature based mining of drug induced liver injury data
Bachelor Thesis (Bioinformatics), Freie Universitaet Berlin 2016 - Franziska Fritz
In silico analysis of structures and taste relationship of bitter and sweet compounds
Bacherlor Thesis (Bioinformatics), Freie Universitaet Berlin 2016 - Fred Prackwieser
Machine leaarning models for prediction of Cytochrome P450 substrate
Bacherlor Thesis (Bioinformatics), Freie Universitaet Berlin 2016
Reviewer/ Editorship
- Journal of Cheminformatics
- Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
- Associate Editor: Annals of Science and Technology
Group activities
- Part of the Charite Technology Transfer initiative, for information please check the catalogue [PDF]
- Lectures and Tutorials for teaching modules
- Successful research proposal/grants writing for Dr. O. Atolani (post doc) and Renata Abel (Visiting Researcher)