Dr. Anupam Bandyopadhyay

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Room & Contact: 

Office: Room 335

Phone: 01881-242260

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Department: 

Department of Chemistry

Email: 

anupamba@iitrpr.ac.in

Biography: 

Dr. Anupam Bandyopadhyay was born in Burdwan, India in 1983. He received bachelor in science from Burdwan University, India in 2004, and then he moved to BHU for masters study. After a short period of R&D job in synthetic organic chemistry, he joined IISER-Pune in 2008 for pursuing PhD degree. He received PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. H. N. Gopi, and his work has resulted in twelve (12) publications about foldamer chemistry and bioorganic chemistry. To gain better proficiency in biochemistry and chemical biology, he joined Boston College as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2013 with Prof. Jianmin Gao and worked on primarily selective membrane lipid recognition expanding non-covalent as well as covalent binding strategies for 3 years 4 months. Further, he continued another postdoctoral experience in Prof. Bradley Pentelute lab at MIT for 1year 8 months. Developing technology applied to high-throughput screening utilizing synthetic protein was the major focus at MIT. Then after a short period of bridging postdoc position at NCBS-TIFR, since January 2019 he is appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India.

Areas of Research: 

Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Peptide and protein engineering.

Molecular recognition of disease-related biologics

Dynamic covalent Chemistry in the biological system

Bioconjugation and ligation chemistry

Peptide-based Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Education: 

Ph.D. (2013): IISER-Pune, India (Thesis Advisor: Professor H. N. Gopi).

M.Sc. (Chemistry) (2007): Banaras Hindu University, India.

B. Sc. (Chemistry) (2004): University of Burdwan, India.

Selected Publications/Patents: 

Awards and Honors

  • Ramanujan Fellowship, DST-SERB, India, 08/2018.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow (NCBS-TIFR, India), 2018.
  • Postdoc associate, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA aided), USA, 2016.
  • STAR postdoctoral fellowship Novo Nordisk, 2016.
  • 1st Prize, Young Investigator Award at the Peptide Gordon Conference-2016, CA, USA.
  • Boston College Postdoc Fellowship 2013 (NIH aided).
  • Senior Research fellowship, CSIR, India 2010-2012.
  • Junior Research fellowship, CSIR, India 2008-2010.
  • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, India, 2007.
    
    Teaching Activities

    CYL101 Chemistry for Engineers.
    CYL515 Bio-organic Chemistry
    CYL456 Chemistry of Life 
    GE101   Technology Museum Lab

    Selected Publications

7. Touti, F., Gates, Z. P., Bandyopadhyay, A., Lautrette, G., Pentelute, B. L.  In-solution enrichment identifies peptide inhibitors of protein-    protein interactions. Nat. Chem. Biol. 2019, 15, 410-418.

6. Gates, Z. P.,  Vinogradov, A. A., Quartararo, A. J., Bandyopadhyay, A., Choo, Z. N., Evans, E. D. Halloran, K. H., Mijalis, A. J., Mong, S. K.,   Simon, M. D., Standley, E., Styduhar, E., Tasker, S., Touti, F., Weber, J., Wilson, J., Jamison, T. F., Pentelute, B. L.  ‘Xenoprotein’ engineering via   synthetic libraries. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2018, 115, E5298-E5306.

 

 5. Bandyopadhyay, A., Cambray, S., Gao, J. Fast Diazaborine Formation of Semicarbazide Enables Facile Labeling of Bacterial Pathogens.    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 871-878.

 4. Bandyopadhyay, A., Cambray, S., Gao, J. Fast and selective labeling of N-terminal cysteines at neutral pH via thiazolidino boronate       formation.  Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 4589-4593.

 3. Bandyopadhyay, A., Gao, J. Iminoboronate-based peptide cyclization that responds to pH, oxidation, and small molecule modulators.            J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 2098-2101.

 

 2. Bandyopadhyay, A., MaCarthy, K., Kelly, M., Gao, J. Targeting Bacteria via Iminoboronate Chemistry of Amine-Presenting Lipids.     Nature Communications, 2015, 6:6561.

 1. Bandyopadhyay, A. and Gopi, H. N. Hybrid Peptides: Direct Transformation of α/α, β-Unsaturated γ-Hybrid Peptides to α/γ-Hybrid Peptide 12-Helices.  Org. Lett., 2012, 14, 2270-2273.

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Work Experience: 

01/2019-Present: Assistant Professor at IIT-Ropar, Punjab, India

05/2018-12/2018: Postdoc Fellow at NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore, India.

06/2016-02/2018: Postdoc Associate at MIT, USA. Advisor: Prof. Brad Pentelute.

02/2013-05/2016: Postdoc Research Fellow at Boston College, USA. Advisor: Prof. Jianmin Gao.

07/2007-04/2008: Research Associate at Syngenta Biosciences Pvt. Ltd., Goa, India.