I am a first year PhD student at Texas A&M University, having joined the Chappell lab in Spring 2020. I received my Bachelors degree from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (India), and have completed my Masters in Food Science from The Pennsylvania State University.
My primary interests lie in studying vectored plant diseases through the interplay of inoculum quantification and transmission, and how stressors might influence these dynamics. To begin with, I have gotten started with cotton as a host, and intend on establishing vector colonies soon.
