Sudip Chattopadhyay
Department of Biotechnology
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Sudip Chattopadhyay obtained his BSc (Hons) in Chemistry from University of Burdwan and MSc (Biochemistry) with first class first position from Kalyani University, West Bengal. He then joined the group of Professor Sudhamoy Ghosh in the Department of Biochemistry at Bose Institute, Calcutta, and worked on regulatory genes involved in carbohydrate metabolism to earn his PhD. Chattopadhyay carried out his post-doctoral research (1993-2000) in the US working at the University of Michigan, Yale University and Purdue University. His work at Yale University demonstrated HY5 as the first genetically defined transcription factor of light signaling pathways that interacts with COP1 (a repressor acts as ubiqutin ligase) to define the regulatory switch of seedling development in plant. Chattopadhyay joined National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi in 2000. He then moved to National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, in 2009 as a Professor of Department of Biotechnoly.
Research Interest
Plant Sciences (Developmental Biology)
