Staff Scientist
Education:
Ph.D., 2015, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Languages Spoken: Hindi, Bengali
Biography
Dr. Ghosh received her Ph.D. in 2015 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, where she used Systems Biology approaches to study host-pathogen interactions in the context of iron acquisition by M. tuberculosis. She joined Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in 2015 as a postdoctoral research fellow with Dr. Tamara O’Connor in the department of biological chemistry. There, she studied convergent evolution in Legionella and how the combined selective pressures of residing in multiple protozoan hosts have equipped Legionella to infect mammalian hosts, including humans. Dr. Ghosh joined BPARS as a staff scientist in December 2021, where she is using her combined training in computational and experimental methods to study bacterial pathogenesis.