Prateek Bansal

PhD @ChBE_Illinois | Computational Biophysics | Chemical Engineering @ICTMumbai1933 | 🏳️‍🌈(he/him)

[Tanentzapf Lab @TanentzapfLab]

1. For lots of people the hardest part of the paper to write is the discussion. Here is a a very brief guide:
Paragraph 1: is a restatements of the two or three most important conclusions (starting with "here we showed", each conclusion gets 2-4 sentences).

[ACS Pride Subdivision of ACS PROF @ACSPride_prof]

Applications are open for the 2026 ACS Pride Merck Graduate Research Award! Share this with anyone who might be interested in applying! Applications are due on Friday, Sept. 5th, 2025. Check out our website for more information!

#ACSPride #ACS #ElevatingProfessionalism #LGBTQ

[Shukla Group @ShuklaGroup]

Congratulations to Prateek Bansal @thepdbguy for winning the ACS PRIDE Merck Graduate Research Award from American Chemical Society! @AmerChemSociety @ChBEIllinois @LASillinois https://t.co/mgDrmYBy5G

[ACS PROF Division @ACSPROF]

Congratulations to the seven 2025 ACS Pride Merck Graduate Research Award recipients! Read more here: https://t.co/HT5FqvyG6q
Stay tuned for more information as the seven will speak at the 2025 ACS Spring Meeting in San Diego.
#QueerInSTEM #STEMPride #ResearchExcellence #Award

[Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @LindorffLarsen]

What do we want?
A protein emoji!
When do we want it?

Ala-Ser-Ala-Pro

[Prateek Bansal @thepdbguy]

@Blendenfleck Starbucks roastery, architecture boat tour, the riverwalk, the viewpoint on top of the Willis tower for good views, the 606 for walking and hiking. Plus, if possible, chicago symphony orchestra for a concert!

[Prateek Bansal @thepdbguy]

Congratulations Prof. Shukla! @diwakarshukla

[ChBE Illinois @ChBEIllinois]

@diwakarshukla received the 2023-2024 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research. This award is given annually by The Grainger College of Engineering in recognition of outstanding research. Shukla said he is inspired by his student researchers, collaborators and mentors at Illinois.

[Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @LindorffLarsen]

Happy to share the publication of our paper in @Nature

Conformational ensembles of the human intrinsically disordered proteome

Work led by @GiulioTesei and @AnnaIdaTrolle. I'll post more later, but for now here is a link:
https://t.co/b3aZ6BbGpB
and a short movie about the work

[Shukla Group @ShuklaGroup]

Join us for the thesis defense of Austin Weigle on Dec 14 at 9 am in RAL171 to learn about substrate selectivity of membrane sugar #transporters in #plants! DM us for the zoom link. @shuklagroup @ChemistryUIUC @ChBEIllinois

[Shukla Group @ShuklaGroup]

Please join us for Soumajit Dutta’s @SoumajitDutta5 thesis defense on “Molecular Mechanism of Ligand Induced Regulation of #Cannabinoids Receptors” Friday, Nov 10 at 9:30 am in CLSL B102. @ChBEIllinois @diwakarshukla @LASillinois

[Soumajit Dutta @SoumajitDutta5]

Check out our new manuscript explaining the difference between the effects of new psychoactive substances and classical cannabinoids on cannabinoid receptors. @ShuklaGroup We thank the @foldingathome donors for providing us computing time for this work.

[bioRxiv Biophysics @biorxiv_biophys]

Transition-based reweighting and neural rational inference analysis of effects of new psychoactive substances on cannabinoid receptors https://t.co/RzUnufmf7t #biorxiv_biophys

[Soumajit Dutta @SoumajitDutta5]

Check out our recent work on explaining subtype selectivity of #cannabinoid receptors. @ShuklaGroup

[Shukla Group @ShuklaGroup]

Check out this beautiful #CoverArt and our recent work on Activation Mechanism of the Smoothened Receptor, class F #GPCR involved in #cancer. @thepdbguy @SoumajitDutta5 @diwakarshukla @ChBEIllinois @UofIResearch @BiophysJ

[Biophysical Journal @BiophysJ]

Read about the cover art for the newly released issue of Biophysical Journal on the BPS Blog: https://t.co/ujMFOnWiA7 @thepdbguy @ShuklaGroup @ChBEIllinois

[Shukla Group @ShuklaGroup]

How human #smoothened, a Class F #GPCR transports cholesterol from membrane to the orthosteric binding site? Check out our work by Prateek Bansal @thepdbguy at poster #B213 in Exhibit Hall BC tomorrow! #BPS2023

[Shukla Group @ShuklaGroup]

Congratulations @thepdbguy for winning the 2022 SCS Science Image Challenge award!

[ChBE Illinois @ChBEIllinois]

This week we celebrated the winners and finalists at the 2022 SCS Science Image Challenge award ceremony! 📸 🏆

Check out these images when you @IFlyCU! ✈️

Gallery ▶️ https://t.co/FYMgKF6hti

[Prateek Bansal @thepdbguy]

Yay! Thank you @ACSCentSci for choosing my cover art!

[ACS Central Science @ACSCentSci]

#ICYMI
Our new issue is live.
Read here: https://t.co/QLH6GxMhMt

Cover story by @theSchroederlab @diwakarshukla @BeckmanInst @ChBEIllinois

[Huafeng Xu @hardsphere]

Another tour de force of high throughput virtual screening, with an impressive hit rate of 63%. https://t.co/THgSIMQ5jY