I am currently a Leon Levy Neuroscience Fellow at NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Neuroscience Institute, where I am conducting my postdoctoral work on reactive astrocytes in Shane Liddelow’s lab. Before coming to New York, I pursued my PhD as an Eli-Lilly Stark Neurosciences Predoctoral Research Fellow in Gaurav Chopra’s lab at Purdue University in the Chemistry Department, and was a part of the Interdisciplinary Life Science graduate program. At Purdue, I worked on microglial biology, particularly focusing on the proteomics and lipidomics characterization of glia, and development of biochemical tools to evaluate glial phagocytosis. I am originally from the beautiful city of Bengaluru in India, where I obtained my Bachelor’s in Biotechnology Engineering.