Soumajit Dutta
Soumajit Dutta
Assistant Professor Grade II, Chemical Engineering
- PhD: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2023
- BTech + MTech: IIT Kharagpur, 2018
Email: soumajit.dutta -AT- iitgn.ac.in
Office:
AB12/303A
VOIP:
2522
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Recent Publications
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N. R. Boynton, L. E. Hess, S. Dutta, C. I. Kuwana, P. Mirmira, G. R. Solymosy, A. Filatov, T. D. Hagan, S. A. Bartridge, A. Rambo, J. Dibeh, S. L. Vivod, A. Abdulahad, C. V. Amanchukwu, A. L. Ferguson, S. J. Rowan, S. N. Patel “Influence of thermal processing and doping concentration on phase behavior of a lithiumtransporting organic ionic plastic crystal” ChemRxiv, 2025
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S. Dutta, D. Shukla “Characterization of binding kinetics and intracellular signaling of new psychoactive substances targeting cannabinoid receptor using transitionbased reweighting method” eLife, 2025
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S. Dutta, D. Shukla “Dynamic Mechanism for Subtype Selectivity of Endocannabinoids” bioRxiv,2024
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S. Dutta, D. Shukla “Distinct Activation Mechanisms Regulate Subtype Selectivity of Cannabinoid Receptors” Communications Biology, vol. 6, no. 485, 2023
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P. Bansal, S. Dutta, D. Shukla “Activation mechanism of the human Smoothened receptor.” Biophysical Journal, vol. 122, 1–14, 2023.
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S. Mittal, S. Dutta, D. Shukla “Reconciling Membrane Protein Simulations with Experimental DEER Spectroscopy Data.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 25, 62536262, 2023.
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L. Zhang, S. Dutta, S. Xiong, M. Chan, K. Chan, T. Fan, K. Bailey, M. Lindeblad, L. Cooper, L. Rong, A. Gugliuzza, D. Shukla, E. Procko, J. Rehman, A. Malik “A single engineered highaffinity ACE2 peptide therapeutically mitigates lung injury and death induced by multiple SARSCoV2 variants.”Nature Chemical Biology, vol. 18, 342–351, 2022.
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S. Dutta, B. Selvam, D. Shukla “Distinct Binding Mechanisms for Allosteric Sodium Ion In Cannabinoid Receptors.” ACS Chemical Neuroscience,vol. 13, 379–389, 2022
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S. Dutta, B. Selvam, A. Das, D. Shukla “Mechanistic origin of partial agonism of tetrahydrocannabinol for cannabinoid receptors.” Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 298, 2022
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G.V. Pereira, A.M. AbdelHamid, S. Dutta, C. D’AlessandroGabazza, D. Wefers, J.A. Farris, S. Bajaj, Z. Wawrzak , H. Atomi, R.I. Mackie, E.C. Gabazza, D. Shukla, N. Koropatkin, I. Cann “Degradation of complex arabinoxylans by human colonic Bacteroidetes.” Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 459, 2021
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A. Das, S. Dutta, L. Giri, M. Sen, A. Saxena, J. Kumar, J. Chakraborty “A Detailed Model and Monte Carlo Simulation for Predicting DIP Genome Length Distribution in Baculovirus Infection of Insect Cells.” Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol. 118, 238252 2020
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S. Dutta, M.T. Vahdat, and M. Rezaei, K.V. Agrawal “Crystallization of gasselective nanoporous graphene by competitive etching and growth: a modeling study.”Scientific Reports, vol. 9, no. 5202, 2019
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Work Experience
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (April 2026 to Present)
- Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago (Dec 2023 – March 2026)
- Graduate Research Assistant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Aug 2018 – Nov 2023)
- Undergraduate Researcher, IIT Kharagpur (Jul 2016 – May 2018)
- Summer Intern, EPFL Switzerland (May 2017 – Jul 2017)
- Summer Intern, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (May 2016 – Jul 2016)
- Summer Trainee, ONGC Surat (May 2015 – Jun 2015)
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Awards
- Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award (ACS National Meeting, 2023)
- Harry G. Drickamer Graduate Research Fellowship (2021–2022)
- Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship (2021–2022)
- SCS Graduate Teaching Award (2021)
- Graduate College Conference Travel Award (2021)
- Teachers Ranked as Excellent (2021)