I am postdoc in Barbara Sixt lab working on deciphering host cell death programs activated during infection with Chlamydia trachomatis mutants.
I was born in Chennai, India, and completed my schooling and undergraduate studies in biotechnology at Anna University, Chennai, India. I was awarded the Lund University Global excellence scholarship and therefore I moved to Sweden for my master studies in molecular biology and genetics at Lund University. After I obtained my MSc degree, I worked at the Department of Medical Microbiology at Skåne University hospital, Malmö, as a research technician with a focus on the bacterial pathogen Helicobacter pylori, which causes gastric cancer.
I then moved to Germany for my PhD studies on characterizing the human respiratory pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.
I loved my time in Sweden and so I decided to move back to Sweden for my postdoc in the Barbara Sixt lab at Umeå University. Here, I am now working on deciphering host cell death programs activated during infection with Chlamydia trachomatis mutants.