From Studying the Biology of Plants to the Biology of Neural Circuits and Memory

While pursuing my MSc. degree in Biotechnology at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in India, I became fascinated with plant molecular genetics and biochemistry. I learned theoretical fundamentals in genetic engineering and decided to pursue these methodologies for making transgenic plants that could be beneficial for agriculture. Later, I was fortunate enough to be admitted 

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Heart Racing Research Discovery

Before going to grad school in Durham, North Carolina, I was trying to figure out if research was for me or not. I worked in an academic lab as a research technician to study developmental genetics in mice. I found out very early that not everything goes as planned and experiments do not always work 

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