Affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Australia

Dr. Sandesh Panthi received his PhD from the Department of Anatomy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, in 2021, which focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying absence seizure generation using a mouse model and DREADD technology. Then he joined the nearby department of Zoology as an assistant research fellow and worked on developing new pre-clinical models of genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathy using Xenopus laevis as a model organism. Currently, he works as a research fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, Monash University, Australia.