Kaustuv Sanyal

Kaustuv Sanyal
Born1969 (age 54–55)
Berhampore, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Known forStudies on pathogenic yeasts
Awards

2017 Tata Innovation Award by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India 2020 JC Bose National Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India 2022 Sun Pharma Science Foundation Research Award - Basic Science 2022

2022 GNR Gold Medal for Excellence in Biological Sciences and Technology by CSIR, Govt. of India
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Visiting Professor, Osaka University, Japan (2020 - 2023)
Doctoral advisorProf. Pratima Sinha
Other academic advisorsJohn Carbon
Websitehttps://www.jncasr.ac.in/faculty/sanyal

Kaustuv Sanyal (born 1969) is an Indian molecular biologist, mycologist and Director of Bose Institute in Kolkata. He is a professor at the Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR).[1] He is known for his molecular and genetic studies of pathogenic yeasts such as Candida and Cryptococcus).[2] An alumnus of Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya and Madurai Kamaraj University from where he earned a BSc in agriculture and MSc in biotechnology respectively, Sanyal did his doctoral studies at Bose Institute to secure a PhD in Yeast genetics.[3] He moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA[4] to work in the laboratory of John Carbon on the discovery of centromeres in Candida albicans.[5] He joined JNCASR[6] in 2005. He is a member of the Faculty of 1000 in the disciplines of Microbial Evolution and Genomics and has delivered invited speeches which include the Gordon Research Conference,[7] EMBO conferences on comparative genomics[8] and kinetochores.[9] The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2012.[10] He has also been awarded with the prestigious Tata Innovation Fellowship in 2017. The National Academy of Sciences, India elected him as a fellow in 2014.[11] He is also an elected fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (2017),[12] and the Indian National Science Academy (2018).[13] In 2019, he has been elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), the honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology.[14][15][16] He was awarded the J.C. Bose National Fellowship in 2020.

  1. ^ "Faculty - JNCASR". www.jncasr.ac.in. 3 February 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Faculty profile". www.jncasr.ac.in. 3 February 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Faculty Member - F1000Prime". f1000.com. 3 February 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  4. ^ "Home | UC Santa Barbara". www.ucsb.edu.
  5. ^ Sanyal, K; Baum, M; Carbon, J (3 August 2004). "Centromeric DNA sequences in the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans are all different and unique". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 101 (31): 11374–9. Bibcode:2004PNAS..10111374S. doi:10.1073/pnas.0404318101. PMC 509209. PMID 15272074.
  6. ^ "Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research". www.jncasr.ac.in.
  7. ^ "2014 Centromere Biology Conference GRC". www.grc.org.
  8. ^ Workshops, EMBO Courses &. "Comparative genomics of eukaryotic microbes: Dissecting sources of evolutionary diversity". meetings.embo.org.
  9. ^ Workshops, EMBO Courses &. "Dynamic kinetochore". events.embo.org.
  10. ^ "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  11. ^ "NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 25 January 2018. Archived from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  12. ^ "Fellowship | Indian Academy of Sciences". www.ias.ac.in.
  13. ^ "INSA :: Indian Fellow Detail". www.insaindia.res.in.
  14. ^ Chatterjee, Gautam; Sankaranarayanan, Sundar Ram; Guin, Krishnendu; Thattikota, Yogitha; Padmanabhan, Sreedevi; Siddharthan, Rahul; Sanyal, Kaustuv (4 February 2016). "Repeat-Associated Fission Yeast-Like Regional Centromeres in the Ascomycetous Budding Yeast Candida tropicalis". PLOS Genetics. 12 (2): e1005839. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005839. PMC 4741521. PMID 26845548.
  15. ^ Sun, Sheng; Yadav, Vikas; Billmyre, R. Blake; Cuomo, Christina A.; Nowrousian, Minou; Wang, Liuyang; Souciet, Jean-Luc; Boekhout, Teun; Porcel, Betina; Wincker, Patrick; Granek, Joshua A.; Sanyal, Kaustuv; Heitman, Joseph (11 August 2017). "Fungal genome and mating system transitions facilitated by chromosomal translocations involving intercentromeric recombination". PLOS Biology. 15 (8): e2002527. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2002527. PMC 5568439. PMID 28800596.
  16. ^ Yadav, Vikas; Sun, Sheng; Billmyre, R. Blake; Thimmappa, Bhagya C.; Shea, Terrance; Lintner, Robert; Bakkeren, Guus; Cuomo, Christina A.; Heitman, Joseph; Sanyal, Kaustuv (20 March 2018). "RNAi is a critical determinant of centromere evolution in closely related fungi". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115 (12): 3108–3113. Bibcode:2018PNAS..115.3108Y. doi:10.1073/pnas.1713725115. PMC 5866544. PMID 29507212.