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Khorana-Bose Scholars Orientation at the University of Chicago (2019)
2021
Volunteered for NeuroFemIndia 2021
NeuroFemIndia 2021 was a BiasWatchIndia conference, which aimed at showcasing the work and increase the visibility of Indian women neuroscientists.
Read more about NeuroFemIndia 2021 at https://biaswatchindia.com/neurofemindia2021/.
Read about BiasWatchIndia initiatives at https://biaswatchindia.com/.
2020
Convened the NeuroNovember Convention 2020
NeuroNovember Convention 2020, organized in the last two weekends of November 2020, was the first international youth-led neuroscience convention from India. With over 800 registrations, and 39 speakers and panelists from across the globe – a fair representation of women, trans persons, and people of color – this convention not just covered science but consciously took the effort to address the social issues faced in STEM.
Read more about NeuroNov 2020 using the links below:
Joined Vaidya Lab at TIFR, Mumbai, as a Junior Research Scholar
Started tenure as a Junior Research Scholar at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. I will be a part of the Vaidya Lab and will be studying neural circuits underlying anxiety and depression, and possible therapeutic interventions of hallucinogens.
Elected as Vice President of Project Encephalon
Elected as Vice President of Project Encephalon (formerly Student Interest Group in Neuroscience), an international and inclusive community by and for Neuroscience enthusiast.
Cracking the COVID-19 Conundrum
Read our blog on how to fight COVID-19, its mental health related aspects and associated rumors on WINStep Forward website.
WINStep Volunteer
Excited to join the WINStep Forward team as a volunteer. I hope that I will be able to create an impact working for the academic community.
Got a chance to interact with Prof. K VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, and ask about the brain-drain situation in India during the Monsoon Brain Meeting.
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/5hk0sovn/clips/5ef60691edd15300ab638560
Best Poster Award
One of our works authored by Manusmriti Agarwal and co-authored by me, bagged the best poster award at the International Conference on Drug Discovery (ICDD) 2020, organised by Schrodinger Inc. USA, at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus. This conference witnessed participation from more than 600 teams across the country.
(29 Feb 2020 to 2 Mar 2020)
We worked on developing a protocol for in silico affinity maturation, using which novel findings were reported.
Link: https://www.schrodinger.com/ICDD-2020; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3533072
Poster Presentation at eBBT-2
Presented a poster on a hypothesized anti-PD-L1 x CD3 bispecific T-cell engager (BiTE) antibody at eBBT-2. (7 to 9 Feb 2020)
Abstract published in Elsevier SSRN
Abstract highlights interesting structural findings about PD-L1 binding with its corresponding antibody.
Feature in IUSSTF Newsletter
Read about my experience as a Khorana Scholar in the Jan 2020 edition of IUSSTF Connect Newsletter.
2019
Presentation at the Young Scientists' Conference 2019
Got a chance to present a poster on the effect of drug-mediated stress on lipid droplet accumulation, one of the emerging hallmarks of cancer, in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). (Nov 2019)
Young Scientists' Conference is a highly prestigious and flagship international conference of the Government of India hosted under the aegis of India International Science Festival (IISF).