Postdoctoral Fellow
Education:
Ph.D., 2023, Indian Institute of Science and Educational Research, India
Languages Spoken: Hindi
Biography
Shikha is a postdoctoral visiting fellow in the Computational System Biology Section (CSBS). She received her Ph.D. in computational biology in August 2023 from the Indian Institute of Science and Educational Research in Mohali, India for her work on antimalarial drug actions and their mechanisms of resistance. Shikha joined CSBS in November 2023 to further pursue her interest in 3D structural modeling to create a generalizable predictive algorithm for TCR-pMHC binding specificities and their influence on TCR-pMHC complex stability, a variable that plays an important role in stochastic models of T-cell activation. She is also interested in modeling cell trafficking kinetics by employing computational multi-compartment models.