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Manveen K Sethi
Instructor of Biochemistry at the Boston University School of Medicine, USA.
Manveen did her Ph.D. at Macquarie University (MQ), Australia, under the primary supervision of Dr. Morten Thaysen-Andersen, an internationally recognized researcher in Glycobiology. During her Ph.D., she forayed into colorectal cancer (CRC) research. After her Ph.D., she was offered a postdoctoral research fellowship at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), USA, under Prof. Joseph Zaia, an internationally-acclaimed leader in mass spectrometry (MS) and Glycoscience, where she is currently employed in a research faculty-track position of Instructor. Her research work involves identifying and characterizing biomolecules such as proteins and glycans using mass spectrometry techniques and utilizing this information to understand biomolecular deregulation in human diseases, such as cancer and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In addition, she also serves as an Instrument Manager for Thermo QExactive HF mass spectrometer at Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University, President of Boston Glycobiology Discussion Group (BGDG), and as a reviewer for many renowned scientific journals. She has recently been awarded her first fellowship grant as an independent P.I. from BrightFocus Foundation to investigate the role of extracellular matrix components in AD. Her long-term career objective is to establish an analytical glycobiology research group with a focus on unraveling the biomolecular deregulations in neurodegenerative disorders, specifically AD.
Beside being a passionate stem cell researcher, Pragya Gupta is trained in Indian classical music, enjoys baking, inventive craftwork and learning about different cultures. She is currently doing her PhD at the University of Melbourne in Australia, where she is researching new ways to treat brain cancers.
Kshipra has completed Bachelor’s in Biomedical engineering from University of Mumbai where she was the recipient of institute gold medal and university bronze medal for obtaining the highest GPA in her cohort. She received her master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Rice University, where she is working with Prof. Raghu Kalluri in the field of exosomes. Specifically she is interested in dissecting the exosome heterogeneity between healthy and cancer cells-derived nanovesicles and advancing the understanding of exosomes classes in cancer. In her spare time, Kshipra enjoys keeping fit, cooking, calligraphy and family & friends.
Kshipra is also involved in various professional development programs and as a first generation-PhD student is helping amplify the voices and stories of minorities in her field via the global organization she is part of snevresearch where she manages the events.
An experienced Biomedical scientist with focus on inflammation research, Dr. Vikram Gujar is working as a postdoc at Northwestern University, Chicago. Besides science, he enjoys hiking, cooking and playing Bansuri.
Nivedita is a Postgraduate in Biotechnology, with one year Project Assistantship experience at inStem, DBT. She is currently a UPSC aspirant planning to appear for 2021 CSE. Although switching from science career to focus on governance policy and administration, her love for science remains ever-etched in all that she does. On her journey from a researcher toward public administrator, she believes in the critical role of science communication and journalism in bridging the gap between lab benches and public fields. Being part of BioPatrika is her being one stone laid for that very bridge.
Sukanya hails from a small town, kotdwara in Uttarakhand. She completed her Masters’ degree in Biotechnology from Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan. After this, she served as a graduate teacher for one year at P.G. College, Kotdwara, Uttarakhand. In 2014, she qualified for the JGEEBILS exam conducted by NCBS/TIFR and joined as a Research Scholar (Ph.D. student) in Dr. Tina Mukherjee’s lab at inStem. Currently, she continued working as a bridging post-doc in Dr. Tina Mukherjee’s lab. Besides work, she loves reading non-fiction books, enjoys gardening, and cooking delicious food.
Anjali is an evolutionary biologist working as a postdoctoral researcher in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests mainly lie in understanding the relationship between natural selection, adaptation and drift in deciding the evolutionary fates of biological functions as well as of whole organisms. She has a PhD from IIT Bombay where her research focused on understanding the process of speciation. Anjali also has her Masters from IIT Kanpur and Bachelor’s from NIT Raipur. She also had short work stints at Dr. Reddy’s Institute of Life Science and at a Central University in Chhattisgarh. She is interested in science communication and volunteers for several organizations towards the same. Although not an avid reader, she likes to read fiction in her free time.
Postgraduate at Vikram Sarabhai Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, Gujarat. She is a neuroscience enthusiast. Apart from that, she enjoys reading and trying her hand at sciart.
Dolly Singh, Ph.D. in Botany from H.N.B. Gharwal Central University is a passionate science graduate with multidisciplinary research experience. She has completed 2years of Post-Doctoral Research at Yeugnam University, Daegu, South Korea where she explored various phytochemicals for therapeutical values. Working on exploring alternatives medicines for liver disorder, eye and lung diseases and developing drug delivery system was her primary research focus. She completed her M.Sc in Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology from University of Madras (Ethiraj College for Women). Presently a mother, and exploring her passion for law, she is working on taking Regulatory affairs for pharmaceuticals and herbal drugs organizations.
Nikita Completed her PostGrad in Biotechnology. She has interest in Bioinformatics. Her hobbies include travelling and calligraphy. She is always up for new challenges.
Neha is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. She completed her PhD from JNCASR India.