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| birth_place = [[West Bengal]], India<br />
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| residence = [[Mohali]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], India<br />
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]<br />
| fields = {{ublist | [[Structural biology]] | [[Immunobiology]] }}<br />
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali]] }}<br />
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[University of Calcutta]] | [[Albert Einstein College of Medicine]] }}<br />
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| known_for = Studies on the [[Pore-forming toxin|Pore-forming protein toxins]] and [[T-cell]] [[costimulatory]] molecules<br />
| awards = {{ublist| 2014&nbsp;[[National Bioscience Award for Career Development|N-BIOS Prize]] }}<br />
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'''Kausik Chattopadhyay''' is an Indian structural biologist, immunobiologist, and a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and the Dean of R&D at the [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali]]. He is known for his studies on the [[Pore-forming toxin|Pore-forming protein toxins]] and [[T-cell]] [[costimulatory]] molecules. 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 2014.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{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}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
[[File:Kolkata univ jeroje.jpg|thumb|left|University of Calcutta]]<br />
Kausik Chattopadhyay, born in the Indian state of [[West Bengal]], secured his [[honours degree]] from the [[University of Calcutta]] in 1996 and continued there to complete his master's studies in 1998.<ref name="Biographical Sketch - Dr. Kausik Chattopadhyay's Lab: Cytolysin Study Group at IISER Mohali">{{Cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/kausikchattopadhyaysite/biographical-sketch |title=Biographical Sketch - Dr. Kausik Chattopadhyay's Lab: Cytolysin Study Group at IISER Mohali |date=2018-05-14 |website=sites.google.com |access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref> His doctoral research was in biochemistry which earned him a PhD from the University of Calcutta in 2003 after which he did his post-doctoral studies at [[Albert Einstein College of Medicine]]. On his return to India in 2009, he joined the [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali]] (IISER) where he serves as a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences.<ref name="Kausik Chattopadhyay - IISER" /> At IISER, he heads the ''Cytolysin Study Group'' as its principal investigator where he hosts several post-doctoral and doctoral researchers.<ref name="Lab Members - Dr. Kausik Chattopadhyay's Lab: Cytolysin Study Group at IISER Mohali">{{Cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/kausikchattopadhyaysite/dr-chattopadhyay-s-research-group |title=Lab Members - Dr. Kausik Chattopadhyay's Lab: Cytolysin Study Group at IISER Mohali |date=2018-05-14 |website=sites.google.com |access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref><br />
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== Professional profile ==<br />
Chattopadhyay's research focus is on the structural studies of [[pore-forming toxins]] and their [[host-pathogen interaction]] from an [[Immunobiology|immunobiological]] perspective.<ref name="Dr. Kausik Chattopadhyay's Lab: Cytolysin Study Group at IISER Mohali">{{Cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/kausikchattopadhyaysite/ |title=Dr. Kausik Chattopadhyay's Lab: Cytolysin Study Group at IISER Mohali |date=2018-05-14 |website=sites.google.com |access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref><ref name="Kausik Chattopadhyay - IISER">{{Cite web |url=http://14.139.227.202/dept/dbs/?iiser-faculty=kausik-chattopadhyay |title=Kausik Chattopadhyay - IISER |date=2018-05-14 |website=IISER Mohali |access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref> His group also studies the structure anf functions of [[T-cell]] [[costimulatory]] molecules.<ref name="Dr. K. Chattopadhyay - IISER Mohali">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iisermohali.ac.in/faculty/dbs/dr-k-chattopadhyay |title=Dr. K. Chattopadhyay - IISER Mohali |date=2018-05-14 |website=www.iisermohali.ac.in |language=en-gb |access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qLgzyOgAAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2018-05-14 |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and [[ResearchGate]], an online repository of scientific articles has listed 29 of them.<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kausik_Chattopadhyay |title=On ResearchGate |date=2018-05-14 |access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref> Besides, he has contributed chapters to books published by others.<ref name="ChakrabartiSurolia2014">{{cite book|author1=Abhijit Chakrabarti|author2=Avadhesha Surolia|title=Biochemical Roles of Eukaryotic Cell Surface Macromolecules|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_HB3BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA109|date=18 November 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-11280-0|pages=109–}}</ref> He was also a member of the advisory committee of the 6th International Library and Information Professional Summit (LIPS 2017) held at Mohali in April 2017.<ref name="6th International Library and Information Professional Summit">{{Cite web |url=http://slp.org.in/LIPS2017/LIPS2017.pdf |title=6th International Library and Information Professional Summit |date=2018-05-14 |website=Society for Library Professionals |access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref><br />
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== Awards and honors ==<br />
The [[Department of Biotechnology]] (DBT) of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2014.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{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}}</ref> He received the Prof. B.K. Bachhawat Memorial Young Scientist Award of the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] in 2015.<ref name="News from the Group - Dr. Kausik Chattopadhyay's Lab: Cytolysin Study Group at IISER Mohali">{{Cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/kausikchattopadhyaysite/news-from-the-group |title=News from the Group - Dr. Kausik Chattopadhyay's Lab: Cytolysin Study Group at IISER Mohali |date=2018-05-14 |website=sites.google.com |access-date=2018-05-14}}</ref><br />
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== Selected bibliography ==<br />
=== Chapters ===<br />
* {{cite book|author1=Abhijit Chakrabarti|author2=Avadhesha Surolia|title=Biochemical Roles of Eukaryotic Cell Surface Macromolecules|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_HB3BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA109|date=18 November 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-11280-0|pages=109–}}<br />
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=== Articles ===<br />
* {{Cite journal |last1=Kathuria |first1=Reema |last2=Chattopadhyay |first2=Kausik |date=2018-02-22 |title=Vibrio cholerae cytolysin: Multiple facets of the membrane interaction mechanism of a β-barrel pore-forming toxin |journal=IUBMB Life |language=en |volume=70 |issue=4 |pages=260–266 |doi=10.1002/iub.1725|pmid=29469977 |doi-access=free }}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last1=Kundu |first1=Nidhi |last2=Tichkule |first2=Swapnil |last3=Pandit |first3=Shashi Bhushan |last4=Chattopadhyay |first4=Kausik |date=2017-01-15 |title=Disulphide bond restrains the C-terminal region of thermostable direct hemolysin during folding to promote oligomerization |journal=Biochemical Journal |language=en |volume=474 |issue=2 |pages=317–331 |doi=10.1042/BCJ20160728|pmid=27784764 }}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last1=Rai |first1=Anand Kumar |last2=Chattopadhyay |first2=Kausik |date=2016 |title=Revisiting the oligomerization mechanism of Vibrio cholerae cytolysin, a beta-barrel pore-forming toxin |journal=Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications |volume=474 |issue=3 |pages=421–427 |doi=10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.05.006|pmid=27150630 }}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Cytolysin]]<br />
* [[Oligomer]]<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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