Kaustuv Sanyal

Kaustuv Sanyal (born 1969) is an Indian molecular biologist, mycologist and 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.

Kaustuv Sanyal
Born	8 November 1969 Berhampore, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya Madurai Kamaraj University Bose Institute
Known for	Studies on pathogenic yeasts
Awards	2012 N-BIOS Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Molecular biology Mycology
Institutions	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Doctoral advisor	Prof. Pratima Sinha

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Selected bibliography

• Sridhar, Shreyas; Dumbrepatil, Arti; Sreekumar, Lakshmi; Sankaranarayanan, Sundar Ram; Guin, Krishnendu; Sanyal, Kaustuv (2017). S.ndal, Subhrangsu (ed.). Centromere and Kinetochore: Essential Components for Chromosome Segregation. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. pp. 259–288. doi:10.1002/9783527697274.ch9. ISBN 9783527697274.
• Sreekumar, Lakshmi; Varshney, Neha; Sanyal, Kaustuv (2017). Chromosome Components Important for Genome Stability in Candida albicans and Related Species. Springer, Cham. pp. 233–251. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50409-4_12. ISBN 9783319504087.

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See also

• Chromosome segregation
• Candida albicans

References

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. 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. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
11. "NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 25 January 2018. 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.1713725115. PMC 5866544. PMID 29507212.
17. Sanyal, K; Carbon, J (1 October 2002). "The CENP-A homolog CaCse4p in the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans is a centromere protein essential for chromosome transmission". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99 (20): 12969–74. doi:10.1073/pnas.162488299. PMC 130570. PMID 12271118.
18. 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.0404318101. PMC 509209. PMID 15272074.
19. Baum, M; Sanyal, K; Mishra, PK; Thaler, N; Carbon, J (3 October 2006). "Formation of functional centromeric chromatin is specified epigenetically in Candida albicans". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103 (40): 14877–82. doi:10.1073/pnas.0606958103. PMC 1595444. PMID 17001001.
20. Padmanabhan, S.; Thakur, J.; Siddharthan, R.; Sanyal, K. (5 December 2008). "Rapid evolution of Cse4p-rich centromeric DNA sequences in closely related pathogenic yeasts, Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105 (50): 19797–19802. doi:10.1073/pnas.0809770105. PMC 2604992. PMID 19060206.
21. Sanyal, Kaustuv; Heitman, Joseph (9 February 2012). "How Do Microbial Pathogens Make CENs?". PLoS Pathogens. 8 (2): e1002463. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002463. PMC 3276562. PMID 22346745.
22. Thakur, Jitendra; Sanyal, Kaustuv (19 April 2012). "A Coordinated Interdependent Protein Circuitry Stabilizes the Kinetochore Ensemble to Protect CENP-A in the Human Pathogenic Yeast Candida albicans". PLoS Genetics. 8 (4): e1002661. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002661. PMC 3334883. PMID 22536162.
23. Thakur, J.; Sanyal, K. (25 February 2013). "Efficient neocentromere formation is suppressed by gene conversion to maintain centromere function at native physical chromosomal loci in Candida albicans". Genome Research. 23 (4): 638–652. doi:10.1101/gr.141614.112.
24. Mitra, Sreyoshi; Gómez-Raja, Jonathan; Larriba, Germán; Dubey, Dharani Dhar; Sanyal, Kaustuv (24 April 2014). "Rad51–Rad52 Mediated Maintenance of Centromeric Chromatin in Candida albicans". PLoS Genetics. 10 (4): e1004344. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004344. PMC 3998917. PMID 24762765.