About author
Sonal was trained in molecular and structural biology and completed her doctorate in Dr. R. Ravishankar’s lab at the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India. During her doctoral training she identified a Mycobacterium metabolic enzyme, SerB (serine phosphatases) role as an ‘invasin protein’. She also purified SerB protein and submitted its crystal structures at RSCB protein data bank (PDB). She is working at Joe Howard’s lab to characterize branching morphogenesis in sensory neurons using Drosophila as a model system. She is interested in how complex arbors form and how molecular players such as microtubules and associated proteins (MAPs) regulate branching, growth, and intracellular transport. She is utilizing tissue specific CRISPR, Drosophila genetics, and a spinning disk confocal microscope to understand the underlying mechanism of dendrite branching morphogenesis.
Sabyasachi earned his doctoral degree under the supervision of Dr. Raja Paul at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India. During his doctoral tenure, he experimented with several soft-computing techniques to understand some complex biological phenomena with a particular focus on the computational modeling of different mitotic events, such as chromosomal oscillation, how inter-polar microtubule force regulate spindle length and how microtubule-based forces regulate the nuclear migration and spindle alignment in different budding yeast phyla. After his Ph.D., Sabyasachi joined Prof. Joe Howard’s lab at Yale University. He is interested to understand the underlying principles that govern branching morphogenesis of Drosophila Class IV sensory neurons using his image processing and computational skills.
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