Affiliation: University of Dayton

I received my BSc from the Government Degree College Nahan, H.P. University, India, and MSc and PhD from Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India. After a short stint as a Research Associate in Transgenics of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, in the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc.), Bangalore, India, I moved to Academia Sinica Taiwan to pursue post-doctoral research in the field of eye development using Drosophila melanogaster model system. In 2002, I moved to Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, to further pursue my work on Drosophila eye development and was promoted to an instructor (non-tenure-track faculty) position in 2004. I was hired at the University of Dayton as a tenure track assistant professor in 2007 and promoted to associate professor in 2013and full professor in 2018. To date, I have published one book and 61 papers.