About Me
I’m a postdoctoral scholar in John Tuthill’s lab at the University of Washington funded by a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award via the BRAIN Initiative. I’m the proud daughter of Indian immigrants and a passionate mycophile. When I’m not in the lab or out mushroom hunting, you can find me cooking, reading, or coloring yarn with natural dyes.
Positions and employment:
- Mar 2016-current: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Washington
- Feb 2016 Visiting scientist, Case Western Reserve University
- 2009-2015 Graduate Student, California Institute of Technology + University of Washington
- 2006-2009 Undergraduate, Columbia University, B.A. in Neuroscience
Honors:
- 2021-current: HHMI Leading Edge Fellow
- 2020-current: NIH Career Transition/Pathway to Independence K Award
- 2021: Grass Foundation Achievement Award
- 2019: Physiology and Biophysics department best poster award
- 2016: Finalist, Best Student Presentation, Division of Neurobiology, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting
- 2010-2015: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2015 Robin Mariko Harris Fellowship
- 2014 CSNE Student Leadership Council Travel Award
- 2013 CSNE Student Leadership Council Travel Award
- 2012 CSNE Center Travel Award
- 2009 Graduated cum Laude, department honors, Phi Beta Kappa