Amartya Sanyal BSc, MSc, PhD

Dr Amartya Sanyal obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in India from the University of Calcutta and Banaras Hindu University respectively. He then pursued his PhD from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore during which he worked on human germ cell gene expression and their regulation during spermatogenesis. He then moved to University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, the USA for his postdoctoral training under the supervision of Dr Job Dekker who pioneered the Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) technique. During his postdoctoral tenure, Dr Sanyal has actively involved in the NHGRI funded ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) consortium projects.

He successfully generated high-resolution 3D chromatin architecture map and comprehensively annotated long-range chromatin interactions in 1% of the human genome using high throughput 3C-based method combined with next-generation sequencing (NGS). Dr Sanyal’s work has been published in leading research journals and is highly cited. He worked in close collaboration with several reputed laboratories at Stanford University, University of Washington, Emory University, Harvard Medical School, etc. His research has made significant impact on the understanding of genome organization and chromatin looping interactions. In August 2014, Dr. Sanyal joined NTU as Nanyang Assistant Professor in School of Biological Sciences (SBS) and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) - a joint medical school by Imperial College London and NTU.