Principal Investigator

Dr. Pradhan is an Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University, in Pocatello, USA since 2018. Since 2019, she is also an Assistant Editor of the journal, Integrative and Comparative Biology, Division of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry. In 2014, she earned her PhD in Neurobiology and Behavior from Georgia State University under the mentorship of Dr. Matthew Grober after which she pursued her postdoctoral training at University of California, Los Angeles (2014-2018) in Dr. Barney Schlinger's lab. She was a lecturer at California State University, Dominguez Hills (2017-2018). She completed her K-12 schooling in India, after which she joined University of British Columbia for her B.S. in Biology. She then spent about a year at Department of Fisheries and Oceans in West Vancouver and eventually went back to University of Briitish Columbia to pursue a M.S. in Zoology from under Dr. Kiran Soma. She received the Dorothy Skinner Award from the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in 2015, which recognizes women scientists in the early stages of their career for high scholarship. As part of ISU's Undergraduate Committee, in 2019, she founded the This is Biology a professional development series for students. She is currently serving as Chair of the Undergraduate Committee.

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