I am a molecular biologist working to gain mechanistic insights into vertebrate regeneration. Broadly, I am interested in how regeneration in vertebrate tissues is regulated at the level of transcription and cell signaling across time and space. Using state-of-the-art approaches in cell biology I hope to gain new quantitative insights into biology of tissue regeneration in zebrafish.
Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Kenneth Poss at Morgridge Institute, co-mentored by Dr. Stefano Di Talia at Duke University. Previously, I was a CAGT genome Technology fellow in the Dept of Cell biology at Duke University.
I completed my graduate work with Dr. Auinash Kalsotra at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where I investigated the mechanisms of liver maturation and regeneration using transgenic mouse models and genomic approaches. I did my undergraduate studies in Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science where my thesis work focussed on the biochemical characterization of Type II restriction-modification systems in H. pylori under the guidance of Dr. D. N. Rao.