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  1. Facility Director (1993-present), X-Ray Crystallography Facility, Institute of Molecular Biophysics. FSU.
  2. President (2024-present), Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities.
  3. Board Member (2023-present), Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities.
  4. Chair (2022-23), Faculty Senate Election Committee, Florida State University.
  5. Senator (2021-present), FSU Faculty Senate, Florida State University.
  6. Mentor (2007-18), Young Scholars Program of Department of Biological Science, FSU.
  7. President (2019-21), Treasurer (2016-19), Southeastern Association of Shared Resources, ABRF Chapter.
  8. Co-founding member (2012-present), FSU-Wide Core Facility Managers Network.

Awards

  • ‘2021 FSU Distinguished University Scholar', Thayumanasamy Somasundaram, Highest university award bestowed to a specialized faculty.

  • ‘2017 Prudential Productivity Cash Award’ FSU ID#: 404– William Sweeney, Thayumanasamy Somasundaram, Claudius Mundoma, James Stephens, Donna Trumbower, Carlos Murphy, Kyle Gower-Winter, and Rebekah Dorn, Scientific Equipment Database and Web Portal, Jun 14, 2017.

Publications

ORCID ( ORCID logo 0000-0002-3629-5117)

34.’The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Shared Resources‘, T.N. Seagroves, D. Bagarozzi, P. Bagchi, N.M. Boukli, N. Browner, F.C-Lee, S. Constable, K.B. Dahlman, L. Griffiths, T.E. Mesa, and Thayumanasamy Somasundaram. J. Biomol.Tech  32(4) https://doi.org/10.7171/3fc1f5fe.ea38010c.

33.’Making the right decisions: Adopting to emerging needs‘, K.B. Dahlman, D. Bagarozzi, P. Bagchi, D. Blum, N.M. Boukli, F.C-Lee, S. Constable, T.N. Seagroves, Thayumanasamy Somasundaram. J. Biomol.Tech  31(4), 165-167 (2020).

32.’The structure of lombricine kinase: implications for phosphagen kinase conformational changes‘, D.J. Bush, O. Kirillova, S.A. Clark, O. Davulcu, F. Fabiola, Q. Xie, Thayumanasamy Somasundaram, W.R. Ellington, and M.S. Chapman. J. Biol Chem. 286, 9338-9350 (2011).

31.’De-icing: Recovery of Diffraction Intensities in the presence of Ice Rings‘, Michael Chapman and Thayumanasamy Somasundaram. Acta Cryst. D66, 741-744 (2010).

30.’ Spackling the crack: stabilizing human fibroblast growth factor-1 by targeting the N- and c- terminus β-strand interactions‘ Vikash Kumar Dubey , Jihun Lee, T. Somasundaram, Sachiko Blaber, and M. Blaber. J. Mol. Biol. 371(1), 256-268 (2007). [DOI Link]

29.’ Conversion of type I 4:6 to 3:5 ß-turn types in human acidic fibroblast growth factor ‘, Jihun Lee, Vikash Kumar Dubey , T. Somasundaram, and M. Blaber. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 62(3), 686-697 (2006). [DOI Link]

28.’ An atomic resolution structure for human fibroblast growth factor 1 ‘, Matthew J. Bernett, T. Somasundaram, and M. Blaber. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 57(3), 626-634 (2004). [DOI Link]

27.’ The putative catalytic bases have, at most, an accessory role in the mechanism of arginine kinase ‘, P.S. Pruett, A. Azzi, S.A. Clark, M.S. Yousef, J.L. Gattis, T. Somasundaram, W.R. Ellington and M. S. Chapman. J Biol Chem 278(29), 26952-57 (2003). [DOI Link]

 

Invited Talks

12. '"Advocating for the Cores in your institution', T. Somasundaram. 2024 35th ABRF Annual Meeting, Apr 21-24, 2024, Minneapolis, MN.

11. '"Training and research in Structural Biology Cores', T. Somasundaram. 2024 35th ABRF Annual Meeting, Apr 21-24, 2024, Minneapolis, MN.

10. '"Structural Biology Cores" Challenges, Evolution, and Opportunities", T. Somasundaram. 2024 35th ABRF Annual Meeting, Apr 21-24, 2024, Minneapolis, MN.

9. 'Role of Shared Resources in the Era of Open Science', T. Somasundaram. 2023 FSU Open Scholars Symposium, Sep 28-29, 2023, Tallahassee, FL.

8. ‘Instrument and Facility PIDs: Constraints and Suggestions‘, T. Somasundaram, FAIR Facilities & Instruments Workshop -1,  Boulder, CO, Sep 13-15, 2023.

7. ‘Core Facilities: Challenges and Opportunities‘, T. Somasundaram. 2018 PITTCON Conferee Networking Event, Orlando, Florida, Feb 26, 2018.

6. ‘Low-cost home-built imager for protein screening‘, T. Somasundaram. 66th Annual Meeting, American Crystallographic Association, Denver, CO, Jul 22-26, 2016.

5. ‘Funding/Upgrading for Mid-size Equipment‘, T. Somasundaram. 2016 PITTCON Conferee Networking Event, Atlanta, Georgia.

4. ‘Why you need a home X-Ray Facility?‘, T. Somasundaram. 2015 Second Florida Core Networking Event, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida.

3. ‘FSU’s IMB Core Facilities and their capabilities‘, T. Somasundaram. 2014 First Florida Core Networking Event, UF-ICBR, Gainesville, Florida.

 

Posters

18. ‘Improved Robotic Imager’,  T. Somasundaram and M. Zawrotny, 2018 Pittcon, Orlando, FL; Feb 25-27, 2018.

17. ‘Dual and mono axis robotic crystal imager‘, M. Zawrotny and T. Somasundaram, 2017 FSU CoM Life Sciences Symposium, Tallahassee, FL 32306; Feb 9-10, 2017 [html | pdf].

16. ‘Simple Imager for Multi-well Plates‘, M. Zawrotny and T. Somasundaram, 2016 Pittcon, Atlanta, GA 30313; Mar 8, 2016.

15. ‘Simple Robotic Imager for Multi-well Plates‘, M. Zawrotny and T. Somasundaram, 2016 Life Science Symposium, FSU College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL 32306; Feb 25-26, 2016.

14. ‘IMB XRF-Core Facility’, T. Somasundaram, 2015 Fifth Annual Life Science Symposium: Ageing, Tallahassee, FL. Feb 19-20, 2015.

 

 

    UpdaTED:  May 16, 2024.