Jainab Khatun

115 Christine ct, Chapel Hill, North Carolina-27516

khatun@email.unc.edu

Telephone: (919)-932-5972 (Home), (919)-843-3512 (Work).

 

Education:

Ph. D in Science (1998): Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India. Title of the Thesis: Ò Theoretical Study on Multiphoton Ionization of Small Diatomic GassesÓ

Masters Degree in physics (1991): Nuclear physics as special paper, First Class, Calcutta University, Calcutta, India.

Bachelor Degree in physics (1988): Mathematics and Chemistry as subsidiary subject, First Class, Calcutta University, Calcutta, India.

Professional Experience:

UNC at Chapel Hill, Postdoctoral Fellow; 2004-Present

Currently I am working on annotating Human Genome using proteo-genomic mapping. We started large-scale analysis of proteomics data sets to map translation across the human genome. Recently, I developed a hidden Markov model for improved peptide identification of MS/MS spectra by applying statistical machine learning approaches. The developed algorithm shows better performance from many of existing identification algorithms. I also performed statistical analysis of mass spectrometry data derived from MALDI TOF/TOF instrument.

UNC at Chapel Hill, Postdoctoral Fellow; 2003-2004

Developed a new methodology to determine the contact potentials in proteins. I applied this methodology to derive sets of contact interaction parameters for a hierarchy of interaction models including solvation and multi-body contact interaction parameters and determined the maximum accuracy of predictions and the transferability of parameters obtained by using contact models potentials.

UNC at Chapel Hill, Postdoctoral Fellow; 2001-2002

Developed a user interface for a scientific (molecular dynamics simulation) program using CGI, PERL, and XML. Designed and developed more sophisticated and advanced generic user interface implementing JAVA and XML. The developed interface promises to lead to generally applicable method for any of a large number of existing and yet-to-be-written complex programs.

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Ph. D student; 91 - 98

Studied resonance enhanced multi-photon ionization (REMPI) of small diatomic molecules, such as hydrogen, deuterium and HD molecule. We have shown that total photoelectron angular distribution and vibrationally resolved angular distribution vary with laser intensity. In addition, we have shown that the tendency for a non-Frank-Condon vibrational distribution and the degree of deviation of vibrationally resolved photoelectron angular distribution from the usual nature increases for heavier isotopes.  

 

Professional Memberships

Member of American Chemical Scoiety

Member of Indian Society of Atomic and Molecular Physics.

Life Member of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science

Honors and Awards:

1983, National Scholarship for Madhyamik examination, Govt. of West Bengal.

1985, National Scholarship for H.S. (+2) examination, Govt. of West Bengal.

1988, National Scholarship for B.Sc. examination, Govt. of West Bengal.

1991, Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), Govt. of India.

1994, Awarded Senior Research fellowship by Council and Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India.

Skills Summary:

Five years experience in modeling and computational biology.

Two years experience in GUI development.

Five years experience in computational physics with quantum mechanical calculations.

More than five years experience in scientific programming. Object-oriented         programming and design.

Environments

 -Mac OS, UNIX, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, MS-DOS, VAX-VMS, SUN.

Languages

-C++, Objective-C, Java GUI and Java Application.

   PERL/CGI, HTML, XML, FORTRAN.

List of Publications:

1.  ÒIn response to Ô On E-values for Tandem MS scoringÕ Ò Jainab Khatun and Morgan C Giddings, Bioinformatics, doi-10.1093/bioinformatics/btn252 (Letter to the editor, 2008)

2.  "Incorporating sequence information into the scoring function: A hidden Markov model for improved peptide identification." Jainab Khatun, Eric Hamlett and Morgan C. Giddings, Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn011 (2008).

3.  "Fragmentation Characteristics of Collision-Induced Dissociation in MALDI TOF/TOF Mass Spectrometry." Jainab Khatun, Kevin Ramkissoon and Morgan C Giddings, Anal. Chem. 79, 3032 (2007).

4.  ÒComputational methods enabling genome-based protein identification from large, complex genomes using mass spectrometry data. Third IEEE Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and StatisticsÓ Mike Wisz, Jainab Khatun and Morgan C Giddings; GENSIPS, Newport Rohde Island; (2005)

5.  ÒCan contact potentials reliably predict stability of proteins?"  Jainab Khatun,    Sagar D. Khare & Nikolay V. Dokholyan, Journal of Molecular Biology, 334, 1223(2004).

6.  "The effect of electronic auto-ionization on vibrational branching ratio in (1+1)-photon resonance enhanced multi-photon ionization of H2 molecules: dependence on laser intensity", Jainab Khatun and Krishna Rai Dastidar, J. Phys. B, vol. 32, 373(1999).

7.  "Theoretical study of vibrational branching ratio and photoelectron angular distribution in (1+1')-photon resonance-enhanced multi-photon ionization of HD and D2 molecules" Jainab Khatun and Krishna Rai Dastidar; Phys.Rev.A, vol.53, 4326(1996).

8.  "Theoretical study of photoelectron angular distribution in (1+1')-photon resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization of H2 molecule", Jainab Khatun and Krishna Rai Dastidar, Phys.Rev.A, vol.52, 2971(1995).

9.  "Non-Franck-Condon vibrational distribution in the (1+1')-photon  resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization of H2", Jainab Khatun, S. Sanyal  and Krishna Rai Dastidar, Phys.Rev.A, vol.49, 4765(1994).

Chapter in Book:

10.  Krishna Rai Dastidar, Jainab Khatun and T.K. Rai Dastidar: "Multiphoton absorption to and from autoionizing states and ionizing continuum": ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND CLUSTER PHYSICS, eds. S.A. Ahmed, Narosa Publishing House, page 158, 1997.

Papers presented (selected) in Symposia/Conferences:

Talk presented in Conferences:

11.  ÒProteogenomic Mapping for the Human Genome to Identify Protein-Coding SequencesÓ,   Jainab Khatun, Jameson Miller, Mark Holmes and Morgan Giddings, ÒInstitute of Biological Engineering, 2008 Annual Conference, (2008), Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

12. ÒProteogenomic Mapping for the Human Genome: Technologies and Challenges for Identifying Protein-Coding Sequences; Jainab Khatun; Christopher Maier; Morgan Giddings; U.S. HUPO Fourth Annual Conference( 2008). Bethesda, MD.

13.  "Proteogenomic mapping for the human genome—Identifying protein-coding sequences", Jainab Khatun, Christopher Maier, Jameson Miller and Morgan C Giddings, Genome Informatics, 2007, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NewYork.

14.  "Incoroporating sequence information into the scoring function: a hidden Markov model for improved peptide identification". Jainab Khatun and Morgan C. Giddings, Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) 5th Annual World Congress, 2006, Long Beach, CA.

15.  ÒA Machine Learning Model for de novo Sequencing of Peptides from Tandem Mass Spectrometry DataÓ, Jainab Khatun and Morgan C. Giddings; Scientific Retreat @ the Beach, September 16-18, 2005, Writesville Beach, North Carolina.

Poster presented in Conferences (selected):

16.  Jainab Khatun, Jameson Miller, Mike Wisz, Dongmei Yang, Atul Shah, Kristen Dang,  Mark Holmes, Melissa Suarez, and Morgan C. Giddings: Genome-Based Peptide Fingerprint Scanning: A Comprehensive Open Source Software System for Protein IdentiÞcation Using Unannotated Genome Sequence Data, Version 2. Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), June, 2007, Sanfrancisco, CA.

17.  Jainab Khatun, Jameson Miller, Mike Wisz, Dongmei Yang, Atul Shah, Kristen Dang,  Mark Holmes, Melissa Suarez, and Morgan C. Giddings: ÒGFS Version 2: A Comprehensive Open Source Software System for Protein Identification Using Unannotated Genome Sequence DataÓ, Poster presented in ÔHuman Proteome Organization (HUPO) 5th Annual World Congress, Nov, 2006, Long Beach, CA.

18.  Jainab Khatun, Sagar Khare & Nikolay Dokholyan: Ò A new method for estimating contact interactions in proteinsÓ, Poster presented in ÔStructural Biology Symposium at NIEHSÕ Sep. 23, 2003, NIEHS, RTP, North Carolina.

19.  Jainab Khatun and Krishna Rai Dastidar: " The effect of autoionization on (1+1')-photon resonance enhanced Multiphoton ionization (REMPI) of H2 molecules" presented in International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic and Collision, July 23-29, 1997, Vienna, Austria.

20.  Jainab Khatun and Krishna Rai Dastidar: "Resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization of two isotopes of H2 molecules: Vibrational branching ratio and photoelectron angular distribution": Presented poster  in the 7-th International Conference on Multiphoton Process, Sept.30-Oct.4, 1996, Max-Planck-Institute fur Quantenoptik, Germany.

21.  Jainab Khatun and Krishna Rai Dastidar: Proceeding of the Second Euro Physics Conference on Photon and Electron Collisions with Atoms, page 124, July 23-26, 1996, Queen's University, Belfast, N. Ireland, UK.

22.  Jainab Khatun and Krishna Rai Dastidar: " Theoretical study of photoelectron angular distribution in (1+1)-photon ionization of H2 molecule": XIX International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collision, page 663, July 26- August 1, 1995, British Columbia, Canada.

23.  Jainab Khatun, S. Sanyal, Krishna Rai Dastidar and T.K. Rai Dastidar: "Effect of autoionization on (1+1)-photon resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization of H2, 7th International Symposium on Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy and Its Applications (RIS-1994), Institute fur physik, Universitat Mainz, D-55029 Mainz, Bernkastel-kues, Germany.

24.  Jainab Khatun, S. Sanyal and K. Rai Dastidar: "(1+1)-photon REMPI of H2 via B1Su state:     Effect of near resonant channel via C1Pu state on the vibrational branching of the H2+ ion". Proceeding of National Laser Symposium, page 267, Feb. 17-19, 1993, I.I.T. Madras.

References:

1.  Dr. Morgan C. Giddings

 Department of Microbiology and Immunology

   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

   Phone: 919 843-3513, Email:giddings@unc.edu

 

2.  Dr. Nikolay V. Dokholyan

   Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

   Phone: 919 843-2513, Email:dokh@med.unc.edu

 

3.  Prof. Krishna Rai Dastidar, Department of Spectroscopy,

   Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta, India

   Phone: 91 33 473-4971, E-mail: spkrd@mahendra.iacs.res.in