Sanjana Nair

Dr. Sanjana Nair has been a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Topf Group at the Leibniz Institute of Virology since June 2022. She earned an Integrated PhD in Computational Structural Biology from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India, in 2022. Her PhD research focused on understanding the mechanisms of specificity in DNA–protein interactions. She also holds a Bachelor's degree in Microbiology from the University of Mumbai.

Developing and improving computational methods for structural bioinformatics
Integrating structural data with systems-level analyses
Understanding molecular mechanisms of host–virus interactions
Evaluating protein–protein interactions in infectious disease context
Currently developing and applying computational pipelines to study protein–protein interactions, with a focus on virus–host systems and infectious diseases