Personal Information
      I, nicknamed Tots by all my friends, was brought up in Burnpur, a small township, in interior Bengal, India. My overarching academic interest has always been in processes that govern life: I had realized that one of the better routes to a holistic understanding of these processes was through Chemistry. Hence I wanted to develop a strong base in Chemistry, and did my B.Sc. in Chemistry from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. I then went on to do my Masters in Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. Throughout these years, I retained my original interest in life sciences. However, it was Chemical Biology, the fascinating interface between Biology and Chemistry that I found myself increasingly drawn towards and joined the Begly lab in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, in 2004 aspiring for a PhD degree.

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