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About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University studying neuroscience, cardiovascular and respiratory physiology. Before this, I completed my PhD in developmental and systems neuroscience. I did my BSc. (Biomedical Science) at Delhi University and MSc. (Molecular medicine) at JNU, Delhi. So far, I have mentored undergraduate, masters, and PhD students and a few postdocs. I am happy to offer mentorship in scientific methodology, programming, neuroscience and more.

Interests: I started my research career during my Masters in Molecular medicine. Here I studied the molecular pathways to target Helicobacter pylori- an opportunistic bacteria that causes adenocarcinoma. I like to describe myself as a microbiologist turned neuroscientist As a neuroscientist, I am interest in understanding (1) How is the brain wired and, (2) How does it control voluntary (for example, locomotion) and involuntary (for example, breathing, heart rate) actions. During my PhD, I addressed the forst question of how the brain is wired using zebrafish cerebellum: > I discovered that the cerebellum in newborns undersgo synaptic pruning which improves the motor leaning and motor function > I discovered that cerebellum undergoes neurogenesis- which means new neurons are born after birth. I amde a genetic tool to study the newborn neurons in zebrafish during active locomotion (unpublished, manuscript in preparation) >I have studied the above using a combination of patch-clamp electrophysiology, ion channel biophysics, 2 photon and confocal imaigng, optogenetics and computation (Python & MATLAB). > I have also studied unexplored functions of electrical synapses in the brain Currently, during my postdoc, I am studying how the brain controls the involuntary processes like heart rate and breathing. Happy to discuss this more.