Janeka Gartia
Assistant Professor
Dr. Janeka Gartia is a structural biologist with expertise in biomolecular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for characterizing biomolecules at atomic resolution. He earned his Master's degree in chemistry from IIT Delhi and his Ph.D from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Before joining KIIT School of Biotechnology as a faculty member in November, 2022, he was a postdoctoral fellow in cellular structural biology lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, for over two years. Gartia’s lab centers its research on metabolomics studies of medicinal plants using NMR spectroscopy--a non-invasive, non-destructive and rigorously quantitative high-throughput technique. The lab’s current research focuses on identification, characterization, and therapeutic evaluation (in silico/in vitro/in vivo) of novel phytomedicinal compounds from Indian medicinal plants. Furthermore, the lab employs qNMR techniques for the space- and time-resolved profiling of these compounds to map their biosynthesis and spatial distribution, alongside developing NMR methodologies and computational tools for metabolomic analysis.
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57203912768
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M.Sc (IIT Delhi), Ph.D (TIFR)
Awards & Honours
- 1. Awarded travel support from DBT to attend 27th ICMRBS conference, held in Kyoto, Japan, 2016 (not availed).
- 2. Awarded best poster award in “RSC symposium on Advances in chemical sciences”, 2015, held at TIFR Hyderabad, India..
- 3. Qualified CSIR NET (2011, 2012), GATE (2012), GS-2013.
- 4. Chemistry B.Sc batch topper in Gangadhar Meher (auto) College, Sambalpur University, 2010.
- 5. Awarded National Rural Talent Scholarship (NRTS), BSE, Odisha (2002),.
1.Gartia, J., Bopardikar, M., Dehury, B., Mishra, S., Mishra, R., & Singh, H. (2025). Starch scavenges degradation products from protein solutions. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 306, 141387. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.IJBIOMAC.2025.141387
2.Sharma, A., Gopi, P., Trivedi, R., Kumar, D., Gartia, J., Suresh Babu, A. R., Pandya, P., Singh, G., & Barnwal, R. P. (2025). Small molecule based targeting of the CssA RNA thermometer: insights from computational and biophysical approaches. Biochimie. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.BIOCHI.2025.07.017
3.Suresh Babu, A. R., Rani, S., Singh, S. P., Khera, A., Alajangi, H. K., Parandaman, S., Raj, A. R. N., Gavaskar, D., Gartia, J., Pandey, A., Yadav, V. K., Singh, G., & Barnwal, R. P. (2025). Antimicrobial activities of novel substituted spiropyrrolidine based heterocycles synthesized by multicomponent reaction against Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal of Molecular Structure, 1339, 142373. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.MOLSTRUC.2025.142373
4.Gartia, J.*, & Barnwal, R. P. (2024). 1Hβ chemical shift-based phase modulated NMR methods for fast identification of amino acid types in proteins. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2024.150000
5.Suresh Babu, A. R., Sharma, A., Athira, M. P., Alajangi, H. K., Naresh Raj, A. R., Gartia, J., Singh, G., & Barnwal, R. P. (2023). Evaluation of antibiofilm properties of dehydroacetic acid (DHA) grafted spiro-oxindolopyrrolidines synthesized via multicomponent 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction. Scientific Reports, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-42528-w
6.Kaur, M., Sharma, A., Kaur, H., Singh, M., Devi, B., Naresh Raj, A. R., Sood, V., Pandey, A., Gartia, J., Kumar, R., Suresh Babu, A. R., Singh, G., & Barnwal, R. P. (2023). Screening of potential inhibitors against structural proteins from Monkeypox and related viruses of Poxviridae family via docking and molecular dynamics simulation. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2023.2259489
7.Gartia, J.*, Barnwal, R. P., & Chary, K. V. R. (2020). Statistical analysis of intermolecular interactions in trypsin-inhibitor complexes. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 38(17). https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2019.1696708
8.Barnwal, R. P., Kaur, M., Heckert, A., Gartia, J., & Varani, G. (2020). Comparative structure, dynamics and evolution of acyl-carrier proteins from Borrelia burgdorferi, Brucella melitensis and Rickettsia prowazekii. Biochemical Journal, 477(2). https://doi.org/10.1042/BCJ20190797
9.Gartia, J., Anangi, R., Joshi, R. S., Giri, A. P., King, G. F., Barnwal, R. P., & Chary, K. V. R. (2020). NMR structure and dynamics of inhibitory repeat domain variant 12, a plant protease inhibitor from Capsicum annuum, and its structural relationship to other plant protease inhibitors. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 38(5). https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2019.1607559
10. Gartia, J., Barnwal, R. P., Anangi, R., Giri, A. R., King, G., & Chary, K. V. R. (2019). 1 H, 13 C and 15 N NMR assignments of two plant protease inhibitors (IRD7 and IRD12) from the plant Capsicum annuum. Biomolecular NMR Assignments, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12104-018-9846-z