Global Instructors & Mentors

Researcher focusing on Cell Biology at Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research with 10+ years of expertise in organelle biogenesis and membrane trafficking, investigating cellular mechanisms across developmental, endocrine, and age-related disease contexts.

Group Leader focusing on Cell Biology at Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland. Dr. Anupama’s research investigates the critical intersection of cellular energy metabolism, cell fate, and growth factor signaling. Her lab focuses on how metabolic rewiring influences cellular behaviors such as proliferation and differentiation, and how it directs essential signals during normal development.

Instructor focusing on Molecular Genetics & Cell Bio at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York. His research focuses on understanding bacterial mechanisms and therapeutic targets in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) to advance treatments for tuberculosis and related co-infections.

Career Development Fellow focusing on Neurobiology at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge, UK. Her work spans investigating the translational and molecular mechanisms of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders to exploring the mechanistic basis of Amyloid-Beta-induced sustained inflammation.

Research Fellow in Neurobiology at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Mentors students in neural circuitry, developmental biology, and scientific literature analysis.

MD/PhD student in Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Dedicated to mentoring Scienspur scholars through neurophysiology, synaptic transmission, and journal club paper dissection to foster critical scientific inquiry.

AIS - BioImaging Specialist focusing on Cell Biology & Bioimaging at AIS - Nikon BioImaging Lab, Cambridge, UK. Guides students on microscopy modules and different types of advanced microscopic machinery.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal Biology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad. She heads the Laboratory of Immunology, vesicle biology and remodeling (LIVeR), where her research primarily focuses on the pathophysiology of acute and chronic liver diseases, including drug-induced liver injury (DILI), metabolic syndrome, and alcohol-associated liver diseases.

Research Affiliate focusing on Neurobiology at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA. His work explores human and animal cognition, specifically focusing on time perception, the sense of agency, and action. He investigates how these processes are influenced by a wide range of factors, including emotion, social and religious contexts, sports-based training, meditation, addiction, consciousness, fairness, and brain-computer interfaces (BCI).

Postdoctoral Fellow focusing on Cell Biology & Tissue Sculpting at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. Her work aims to uncover the mechanisms that drive compositional asymmetry across epithelial cell junctions, a defining characteristic of planar polarized epithelia.

Research Associate focusing on Cell Biology & Neurobiology at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA. His research investigates the roles of lipid transfer proteins in neurodevelopment and how their disruption may contribute to neurological disorders. His work integrates CRISPR-based genetic models, functional analyses of neuronal development, in vivo cell biological approaches, proteomics, and genomics to uncover mechanisms in lipid signaling in the nervous system.

Faculty focusing on Neurobiology at UMass Chan Medical School, Massachusetts, USA. Her work focuses on investigating the role of glia in sleep regulation, extracellular and endosomal vesicles with a focus on transporter recycling, and advancing research in transporter discovery and characterization.

Assistant Professor focusing on Neurobiology at CHINTA, TCG Crest, Kolkata. His research investigates neuronal cell biology, intracellular trafficking, and the transport of RNA, proteins, and organelles within neurons to understand cellular homeostasis and neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disease mechanisms.

Postdoctoral Associate focusing on Neurological disorders and RNA biology at Boston University, Massachusetts, USA.

Postdoctoral Associate focusing on Cell Biology & Signaling at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA. His research focuses on cellular insulin response, phosphoinositide lipid signaling, and the quantitative analysis of cell cycle, differentiation, and metabolism in adipose and pancreatic islet cells.

Postdoctoral Research Associate at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA. She works at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence (NeuroAI). Her research bridges artificial and biological intelligence by investigating how neuromodulators like dopamine and serotonin drive learning and adaptive behavior in complex, stochastic environments.

Research Scientist focusing on Neurobiology at MIT, Massachusetts, USA. Engaged in cutting-edge neural investigation and mentoring future life scientists.

Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, USA. Her area of interest revolves around uncovering the regulation and relevance of circadian rhythms in peripheral tissues, specifically focusing on the immune system.

Postdoctoral Scholar focusing on Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School & MGH, Boston, USA.

Assistant Professor focusing on Muscle Biology at Purdue University, USA. Her interest lies in exploring the role of skeletal muscle specific Akt signaling in regulating whole body metabolism and muscle performance using approaches encompassing molecular biology, biochemistry, metabolomics, transcriptional techniques, whole-animal physiology, proteomics, and ex-vivo tissue culture.

Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School & Boston Children's Hospital. His research utilizes computational protein design technologies to modulate signaling in immune development, function, and ageing, with the ultimate goal of enhancing T cell function to combat cancer, autoimmune diseases, and viral infections.

Postdoctoral Fellow focusing on Cell Biology & Neurobiology at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

Assistant Professor of Biology focusing on Cell Biology & Neurobiology at Stetson University, Florida, USA. Her current research centers on the intersection of biology and education. She designs educational technologies and curricula that foster student agency and emphasize how science is deeply intertwined with society. She actively utilizes her laboratory experience with Drosophila as a foundational teaching tool in her programs.

Field Application Scientist at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Massachusetts, USA. Her research focuses on molecular biology and next-generation sequencing technologies. She possesses extensive expertise in standardizing methylation and hydroxymethylation assays across various cell line and disease models, as well as analyzing clinical samples from cancer and cardiovascular patients to identify biomarkers and elucidate complex disease pathophysiology.

Postdoctoral Researcher at Brandeis University, USA. Her experience lies in investigating neural circuit function using in vivo and slice electrophysiology, investigating how neural circuits support learning, memory, and behavior.

Staff Fellow focusing on Neurobiology at Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire, USA. Her expertise lies in spatial proteomics, spatial transcriptomics, multi-omics, multiplex immunofluorescence, molecular biology, confocal microscopy, image analysis, and quantitative data analysis. She has established and implemented emerging technologies, developed analytical workflows, and led research programs from concept and experimental design through validation, data interpretation, publication, and grant development.

Staff Scientist - Clinical Genomics focusing on Neurobiology & Genetics at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, New Hampshire, USA. His experience includes translational research and molecular diagnostics, dedicated to advancing patient care through cross-disciplinary collaboration between research, clinical laboratories, and the instrumentation/assay industry. He has over 13+ years of expertise in human genetics, neuroscience, and molecular diagnostics.

Teaching Faculty focusing on Neurobiology at Cambridge Centre for International Research.

Faculty focusing on Cell Biology at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi NCR. Her research interests lie in membrane remodelling during cellular exocrine secretion, membrane biophysics and cell biology of membrane reservoirs, lipid signalling regulating membrane curvature, trafficking, and cellular homeostasis, live imaging of organelle dynamics to quantify organelle function and behaviour, and correlative (Light and Electron) microscopy, high-throughput cellular electron microscopy data acquisition and cellular electron tomography for detailed structural-functional studies.

Assistant Professor focusing on Cell Biology & Genetics at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi. His research interests lie in Vascular Biology, lymphatic system, developmental biology, regeneration, genomics, vascular networks, the lymphatic vessels (LV) and the blood vessels (BV) in the vertebrate body.

Postdoctoral Research Associate focusing on Cell Biology at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA.

Scientist at Sarafan ChEM-H, Stanford University, California, USA. She is part of the Preclinical Pharmacology Team at Stanford’s Innovative Medicines Accelerator.

Staff Research Associate focusing on Cell Biology & Genomics at McGill Genome Centre, Quebec, Canada. He currently manages pan-Canadian personalized cancer genomics projects, develops new sequencing methods at the bench for cancer tissues, and manages collaborative interactions between the genome center and clinicians at the Research Hospital (RI-MUHC).

Postdoctoral Fellow in Neurobiology at Harvard University. Guides Scienspur scholars through neurophysiology, synaptic transmission, and journal club paper dissection to foster critical scientific inquiry.

Doctoral Student at the University of Hyderabad. She has a background in genetics, with a strong desire to apply genetic concepts to everyday life.

Scientist at Sanofi, USA. Her expertise lies in RNA Biology, molecular biology, CRISPR-Cas-9, FISH, and Immunostaining.

Postdoctoral Researcher at IGBMC, Strasbourg, France. He currently investigates post-transcriptional gene regulation in embryonic stem cell maintenance and differentiation and has worked on projects studying mammalian brain development and function using in vivo and in vitro models. He has 10 years of research experience in cell culture, rodent models, advanced light microscopy, animal behaviour, and molecular biology techniques.

Postdoctoral Fellow at Barnard Neurobiology Lab at Columbia University in The City of New York, USA.

Research Fellow at ZON Lab, Boston Children's Hospital, Massachusetts, USA. He is currently investigating the role of RNA modification during blood development.

Professor at Howard University, Department of Biology, Washington DC-Baltimore Area, USA. His lab’s efforts are geared toward developing technology to address drought and salt stress resistance in crop plants.

Educational Specialist focusing on Molecular Genetics and life science pedagogy. Teaches molecular mechanisms of gene regulation and emerging genetic tools to undergraduate scientists.

Faculty member at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, specializing in molecular biology and cellular physiology, dedicated to advancing undergraduate scientific inquiry.

Research Educator focusing on cellular dynamics, immunology, and organelle biology. Dedicated to mentoring Scienspur scholars through interactive case studies and academic advising.

Assistant Project Scientist at UC San Diego, California, USA. She has extensively worked in the field of cell cycle and chromosome segregation with expertise in developmental biology and tissue morphogenesis. She has also worked with protein kinases and phosphatases and their regulation during these fundamental processes.

Postdoctoral Scholar focusing on Cell Biology and Biophysics at University of California, Berkeley. Dedicated to mentoring undergraduate scientists in membrane dynamics and quantitative biophysics.

CEO & Co-founder, Ex-Amplify Therapeutics. Her expertise lies in virology, gene therapy, and extracellular vesicle (EV) research and is a biotech entrepreneur in San Diego.

Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA. He works at the interface of computer science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence (AI). His interdisciplinary expertise includes computational modeling, interpretable AI models, large-scale data analysis, and experimental design.

Postdoctoral Scholar at MIT, Massachusetts, USA. Her interest lies in the relationship between the ecology and evolution of the marine photosynthetic bacterium Prochlorococcus and the ocean's carbon cycle.

Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore, Mechanobiology Institute. Her research focuses on endothelial cell dynamics and vascular mechano-medicine pathways, with the goal of decoding, predicting, and engineering disease-relevant mechano-responses of the endothelium.

Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. His research interest lies in bio-imaging. He currently explores novel methods to optimally perform multicolor imaging in cathodoluminescence microscopy.

Postdoctoral Research Associate focusing on cellular mechanisms and biophysics at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA.

Postdoctoral Scientist at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA. He works on learning dynamics: how activity across an entire nervous system is reorganized when an animal learns, measured at the resolution of single neurons. He co-leads a multi-institutional whole-brain imaging project in C. elegans and leads its computational analysis and modeling.

Postdoctoral Researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA. Her interest lies in understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms of cranial neural tube closure by trying to identify candidate genes which are essential for successful neural tube closure along with those essential for tissue morphogenesis during this critical process.

Postdoctoral Fellow focusing on Neurobiology at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA.

Principal Investigator at University of Düsseldorf, Germany. His expertise lies in life Sciences with a focus on Mitochondrial Biology, Metabolism and Pathology to solve biological questions using a combination of various OMICS, biochemical techniques, advanced microscopy like Super-Resolution Microscopy (STED), and live-imaging of cellular organelles.

Principal Scientist and Head Genomics Lab at OneCell Diagnostics India Pvt Ltd, leading clinical genomics and molecular diagnostic programs.

Scientist at Novartis, Hyderabad. His expertise lies in the biopharmaceutical industry with skills in biomolecular characterization, LC & LC-MS, molecular biology, protein purification, and cryo-EM.

Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Hohenheim, Germany. His interest lies in understanding how early embryonic development compares across various insect species with a focus on flies. He aims to address questions on the effect of environmental fluctuations on embryo fitness at a cell biological level.

In loving remembrance of Dr. Seetha Krishnan. A distinguished scientist and beloved mentor who inspired generations of life science scholars with her dedication to scientific discovery, drug development, and egalitarian education.

Assistant Professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston), Texas, USA. He studies bacterial survival strategies and their impact on antibiotic resistance evolution.

Instructor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts, USA. He currently investigates the epigenetic mechanisms of prostate cancer lineage plasticity and treatment-resistance with a goal of developing novel therapeutic strategies for neuroendocrine prostate cancer.

Senior Professor at National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR), Bangalore. Specializes in cellular biophysics and neurophysiology, fostering scientific rigor and mentoring young investigators across India and globally.

Assistant Professor at William & Mary, Virginia, USA. Her research interest lies in fundamentally advancing our understanding of human diseases by utilizing innovative basic and translational research on the immune system.