Background
Kolaskar, Ashok Sadanand was born on September 3, 1950 in Vilegaon, India. Son of Sadanand Shantaram and Shanta Kolaskar.
Kolaskar, Ashok Sadanand was born on September 3, 1950 in Vilegaon, India. Son of Sadanand Shantaram and Shanta Kolaskar.
Bachelor of Science, Nagpur (India) University, 1969. Master of Science, Nagpur (India) University, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1976.
Research associate, molecular biophysics unit, Indian Institute Science, Bangalore, 1976-1977; visiting scientist, Institute Biologue Physico-Chemique, Paris, 1977; research associate Life Science Center, University of Chicago, 1977; guest worker, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1977; lecturer School Life Sciences, Center U. Hyderabad, India, 1978-1983; scientist, Center Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, 1983-1986; officer-in-charge bioinformatics, U. Pune, India, since 1986; professor molecular biophysics and computational chemistry, U. Pune, India, since 1986; head department zoology, U. Pune, India, 1991-1994; head department biotechnology, U. Pune, India, since 1994; chairman international management committee, IUIS/CODATA Hybridoma Data Bank, since 1990. Corresponding member task force, Hybridoma Data Bank of CODATA, Paris, 1988-1990,member systematic nomenclature for foods in numerical data banks task force, 1988-1990, member biological macromolecules task force, 1988-1990, member management committee, 1988-1992.
Member committee to improve science education, Andra Pradesh State Government Education Department, Hyderabad, 1984-1986. Fellow Indian National Science Academy. Member Microbial Strain Data Network (executive committee since 1991, data subcommittee international committee on taxonomy of viruses 1992), Society Biological Chemists, Computer Society India, New York Academy of Sciences, Infantry Reso. for Release Organisms into Environmental (international steering committee), International Council for Science Unions (executive committee commission on data for science and technical since 1994).
Married Rajyalakshmi Manda, September 30, 1978. Children: Tushar, Nishant.