Needhi Bhalla

Needhi Bhalla is an American biologist. She researches mitosis and meiosis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Bhalla is an associate professor at University of California, Santa Cruz.

Needhi Bhalla
Alma materColumbia University (B.A.)
University of California, San Francisco (Ph.D.)
Children2
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
Doctoral advisorAndrew W. Murray
Other academic advisorsTeri Melese
Abby Dernburg

Early life and education

Needhi Bhalla was raised on the southern shore of Long Island near Queens. She was born to Indian parents in Khatri family who emigrated to the United States in the 1960s and 1970s for higher education opportunities. Bhalla's mother is a nutritionist and her father, a United States Air Force engineer.[1]

In 1993, Bhalla worked as a summer intern with John Kornblum in the New York City Public Health Laboratories.[2] In 1995, she graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College (New York).[2] One summer during her undergraduate studies, Bhalla researched in Teri Melese's lab at Columbia University where she learned of her interest in cell biology.[1] Bhalla completed a Doctor of Philosophy at University of California, San Francisco in 2002.[2] She completed her doctoral research in Andrew W. Murray's lab where she researched mitotic chromosome segregation in yeast. Bhalla researched meiosis in C. elegans during her postdoctoral studies in Abby Dernburg's lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[1][2]

Career

Bhalla worked as an assistant professor from 2008–2015 in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at University of California, Santa Cruz. She became an associate professor in 2015,[2] and was appointed to full professorship in 2019. Bhalla is on the working group of Mothers in Science which works to evaluate scientific conference guidelines to address barriers facing parents.[3]

Personal life

Bhalla has two sons.[3]

References
  1. Sedwick, Caitlin (2016-02-01). "Needhi Bhalla: Chromosomes do the most amazing things". The Journal of Cell Biology. 212 (3): 260–261. doi:10.1083/jcb.2123pi. ISSN 0021-9525. PMC 4748584. PMID 26833784.
  2. "Needhi Bhalla CV" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-01-23.
  3. Stephens, Tim (March 5, 2018). "Mothers in science offer solutions to the conference-childcare conundrum". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
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