Sankalp Gupta

Sankalp grew up and was initially educated on the banks of the rivers Ganga and Yamuna in Allahabad, India. As a graduate student, his basic research training was organized around biochemistry and molecular biology. He earned his PhD working on signal transduction systems in Mycobacterium tuberculosis under Dr. Dibyendu Sarkar at the Institute of Microbial Technology near the foothills of the Sivalik’s in the scenic city of Chandigarh. To pursue a postdoc with Ken Marians at MSKCC, Sankalp moved literally to the middle of the Hudson River where he lived on Roosevelt Island.  While there, he studied various mechanisms of replication fork reactivation after the fork hits DNA damage. It was while working in Ken’s lab that he became interested in single molecule techniques to further investigate what he observed in his gels. To pursue these interests, Sankalp moved to Harvard and chose, yet again, to live by a river. This time it is the Mystic River in Medford. Beside gels he is an ardent fan of cricket (he considers himself a good leg spinner), admires nature and is a whisky connoisseur. His dream vacation is a whiskey tour of Scotland.