LS50 is Harvard's year-long integrated introduction to the life sciences for first-year students. I supervise student-led research projects — on the ligand specificity of yeast GPCR sensing (2023, 2026) and on signal processing through the yeast MAPK pheromone pathway (2024) — and teach lectures and hands-on labs in molecular biology, fluorescence microscopy, and quantitative data analysis.
Prepared course material for EMBL graduate students and gave lectures and demonstrations on modeling bistable switching and gene expression noise.
Mentored undergraduate teams on synthetic biology projects, including GPCR-based sensing and inducible lysis circuits in bacteria, guiding them through project scoping, experimental roadmapping, and troubleshooting. The 2023 team received a Silver Medal at the iGEM Grand Jamboree in Paris.
Winter Quantitative Biology (QBio) Retreat, Hawaii, 2026
Gordon Research Conference, Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution, 2025
129th International Titisee Conference, Germany, 2024
American Society for Cell Biology Minisymposium, 2023
Merck Innovation Cup, 2022 — selected in the top 7 teams
Institute Silver Medal and Best Thesis Award, 2020 — IIT Kharagpur
Khorana Scholar, 2019 — Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
Honda Young Engineers and Scientists Award, 2018 — Honda Foundation, Japan