I completed my PhD in Molecular Microbiology from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2014. My PhD dissertation addressed the characterization of a highly conserved gene family-sulfatases in Salmonella. Soon after that I joined as a Research Fellow at the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI), National University of Singapore in the Bacterial Pathogenesis and Signal Transduction Lab. I completed one year of fellowship at MBI. During my Postdoctoral fellowship in NUS, I characterized the role of a small protein as a molecular ruler on Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 2 (SPI-2) locus. I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston working on Ehrlichial effector proteins. I am working on elucidation of an ehrichial T1S substrate as a nucleomodulin. I have extensive training in Molecular Microbiology and Cell Biology and interested in host-microbial interaction.
