Kaustuv Sanyal

{{Short description|Indian molecular biologist, mycologist and professor}}

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{{Infobox scientist

| name = Kaustuv Sanyal

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1969}}

| birth_place = Berhampore, West Bengal, India

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| nationality = Indian

| fields = {{ublist | Molecular biology | Mycology }}

| workplaces = {{ublist | Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research }}

Visiting Professor, Osaka University, Japan (2020 - 2023)

| alma_mater = {{ublist | Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya | Madurai Kamaraj University | Bose Institute }}

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

| doctoral_advisor = Prof. Pratima Sinha

| academic_advisors = John Carbon

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| known_for = Studies on pathogenic yeasts

| awards = {{ublist| 2012 N-BIOS Prize }}

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

| website = https://www.jncasr.ac.in/faculty/sanyal

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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).{{Cite web |url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/faculty.php?d=mb |title=Faculty - JNCASR |date=2018-02-03 |website=www.jncasr.ac.in |access-date=2018-02-03}} He is known for his molecular and genetic studies of pathogenic yeasts such as Candida and Cryptococcus).{{Cite web |url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/sanyal/ |title=Faculty profile |date=2018-02-03 |website=www.jncasr.ac.in |access-date=2018-02-03}} 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.{{Cite web |url=https://f1000.com/prime/thefaculty/member/1303935136244309 |title=Faculty Member - F1000Prime |date=2018-02-03 |website=f1000.com |access-date=2018-02-03}} He moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA{{cite web |title=Home {{!}} UC Santa Barbara |url=https://www.ucsb.edu/ |website=www.ucsb.edu |language=en}} to work in the laboratory of John Carbon on the discovery of centromeres in Candida albicans.{{cite journal |last1=Sanyal |first1=K |last2=Baum |first2=M |last3=Carbon |first3=J |title=Centromeric DNA sequences in the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans are all different and unique. |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |date=3 August 2004 |volume=101 |issue=31 |pages=11374–9 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0404318101 |pmid=15272074|pmc=509209 |bibcode=2004PNAS..10111374S |doi-access=free }} He joined JNCASR{{cite web |title=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research |url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/ |website=www.jncasr.ac.in}} 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,{{cite web |title=2014 Centromere Biology Conference GRC |url=https://www.grc.org/centromere-biology-conference/2014/ |website=www.grc.org |language=en}} EMBO conferences on comparative genomics{{cite web |last1=Workshops |first1=EMBO Courses & |title=Comparative genomics of eukaryotic microbes: Dissecting sources of evolutionary diversity |url=http://meetings.embo.org/event/17-eukaryotes |website=meetings.embo.org}} and kinetochores.{{cite web |last1=Workshops |first1=EMBO Courses & |title=Dynamic kinetochore |url=http://events.embo.org/17-kinetochore/ |website=events.embo.org}} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20 |archive-date=4 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304191331/http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |url-status=dead }} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=S |title=NASI fellows |date=2018-01-25 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2018-01-25 |archive-date=16 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316043224/http://nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=S |url-status=dead }} He is also an elected fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (2017),{{cite web |title=Fellowship {{!}} Indian Academy of Sciences |url=https://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Sanyal,_Prof._Kaustuv |website=www.ias.ac.in |language=en}} and the Indian National Science Academy (2018).{{cite web |title=INSA :: Indian Fellow Detail |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/detail/P18-1792 |website=www.insaindia.res.in}} 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.{{cite journal |last1=Chatterjee |first1=Gautam |last2=Sankaranarayanan |first2=Sundar Ram |last3=Guin |first3=Krishnendu |last4=Thattikota |first4=Yogitha |last5=Padmanabhan |first5=Sreedevi |last6=Siddharthan |first6=Rahul |last7=Sanyal |first7=Kaustuv |title=Repeat-Associated Fission Yeast-Like Regional Centromeres in the Ascomycetous Budding Yeast Candida tropicalis |journal=PLOS Genetics |date=4 February 2016 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=e1005839 |doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.1005839|pmid=26845548 |pmc=4741521 |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Sun |first1=Sheng |last2=Yadav |first2=Vikas |last3=Billmyre |first3=R. Blake |last4=Cuomo |first4=Christina A. |last5=Nowrousian |first5=Minou |last6=Wang |first6=Liuyang |last7=Souciet |first7=Jean-Luc |last8=Boekhout |first8=Teun |last9=Porcel |first9=Betina |last10=Wincker |first10=Patrick |last11=Granek |first11=Joshua A. |last12=Sanyal |first12=Kaustuv |last13=Heitman |first13=Joseph |title=Fungal genome and mating system transitions facilitated by chromosomal translocations involving intercentromeric recombination |journal=PLOS Biology |date=11 August 2017 |volume=15 |issue=8 |pages=e2002527 |doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.2002527|pmid=28800596 |pmc=5568439 |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Yadav |first1=Vikas |last2=Sun |first2=Sheng |last3=Billmyre |first3=R. Blake |last4=Thimmappa |first4=Bhagya C. |last5=Shea |first5=Terrance |last6=Lintner |first6=Robert |last7=Bakkeren |first7=Guus |last8=Cuomo |first8=Christina A. |last9=Heitman |first9=Joseph |last10=Sanyal |first10=Kaustuv |title=RNAi is a critical determinant of centromere evolution in closely related fungi |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |date=20 March 2018 |volume=115 |issue=12 |pages=3108–3113 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1713725115|pmid=29507212 |pmc=5866544 |bibcode=2018PNAS..115.3108Y |doi-access=free }} He was awarded the J.C. Bose National Fellowship in 2020.