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Prakriti K. Das

Prakriti K. Das

Graduate Student in Chemistry

B.Sc. Honours Biochemistry, York University, Toronto, 2019

 

Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
136 Roger Adams Laboratory
600 S. Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801

Email: pkd2@illinois.edu
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakriti-das-3a399b278/

   

Brief Biography

Prakriti Das received her B.Sc. degree in honours biochemistry from York University in Toronto in 2019. She joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a graduate student in chemistry in Fall 2019, where (after summer research in the lab) she joined the laboratory of Prof. Scott K. Silverman to study DNAzymes.

Research Interests

In my research project, I am identifying DNAzymes that site-specifically modify peptides and proteins by lysine acylation reactions.

  • "DNAzyme-Catalyzed Site-Specific N-Acylation of DNA Oligonucleotide Nucleobases", M. M. Kennebeck, C. K. Kaminsky, M. A. Massa, P. K. Das, R. D. Boyd, M. Bishka, J. T. Tricarico, and S. K. Silverman, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202317565. [pdf] [Supp Info] [PubMed entry]