Biography
I am a PhD student in the Quince group at the Earlham Institute, on the UKRI MRC-funded Microbes, Microbiomes and Bioinformatics Doctoral Training Programme (MMB DTP).
My research focuses on developing novel bioinformatics tools and molecular methods to resolve the strain-level dynamics of microbiome transplantation.
Before joining the Earlham Institute, I completed an Integrated BS-MS in Biological Sciences at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata (India) in 2025. During my master’s project, I explored the cancer immune checkpoint, primarily through structural bioinformatics and computational biology.
In 2024, I was selected in the prestigious Khorana Program for Scholars, an Indo-US exchange programme, and completed a summer internship at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA), where I investigated ion-binding dynamics in sodium-coupled transporter proteins using molecular dynamics simulations.
Prior to that, in 2023, I also undertook a summer internship at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India), where I was first introduced to bioinformatics, particularly transcriptomic analysis.