Urbashi Basu

Bio/Description

Urbashi Basu joins the Department of Molecular Biology, aiming to understand the molecular mechanisms that underlie circadian clock regulation of immune functions and the impact of this regulation on resistance to infection across the day-night cycle. Basu holds a Ph.D. in biology from the National Centre for Biological Sciences at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, an M.Sc. in biotechnology and a B.Sc. in microbiology from the University of Calcutta, India. She is advised by John Brooks, assistant professor of molecular biology.