
Education
PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Subjects
Genetics, Behavior, Evolution, Drosophila, Model Organisms
Achievements
2nd rank in the AIIMS MSc Reproductive Biology and Clinical Embryology entrance exam; 84.4% in BSc Zoology, among the top 10 students in a class of 105; qualified GATE 2021 (Life Sciences) with rank 1417 of 23,973; 2nd prize in a national-level essay competition (NANI, IAPT); co-authored a research preprint on HIP1 as a potential biomarker for rheumatoid arthritis
About
Ayushi is a PhD student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan, where she studies how genetic variation influences behavior using Drosophila. She completed her bachelor’s in Zoology at the University of Delhi and her master’s in Reproductive Biology and Clinical Embryology at AIIMS Delhi, and has worked on model organisms including C. elegans, mice, and human cell lines. She has been a graduate student instructor for three undergraduate courses.
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