2018
B.Sc. Botany
University of Delhi, India
2022-present
Fellowships & Awards
2026
Biological Sciences' Outstanding Research Award - Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn
2025
Alabama Agriculture Experiment Station, PEER Grant
Project Title: An integrative approach towards improving tomato development by utilizing cytokinin as a tool for sugar reallocation. (Awarded $5000 to pursue independent research project)
COSAM 3 Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) – 1st Place
2024
Graduate Student Oral Presentation Award – 1st Place at Southern Section – American Society of Plant Biologists
2023
Henry Daniell International Scholar Award - Graduate Student at Southern Section – American Society of Plant Biologists
Narendra Singh Graduate Student Research Award - Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn
2021
CSIR-UGC NET-Junior research fellowship - Life Sciences.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Plant Biology (BIOL 3101) - Sole Lab Instructor
Organismal Biology (BIOL 1031)
Genetics (BIOL 3001)
Guest Lecture
Plant Biology (BIOL 3100)
Ethnobotany: Interaction of humans with plants
Teaching
Brianne and Ashley Presenting their Research Findings
Auburn University Research Symposium, 2025
Mentoring
Shelby Crowell
Project: Characterizing etiolation responses in chloroplast-import mutants
Peyton Hass
Project: Characterizing temporal and spatial variability of cytokinin signaling in altered chloroplast-import mutants
Brianne Giglio
Project: Identifying effects of cytokinin treatment towards source-sink dynamics and sugar transport in Arabidopsis thaliana
Hannah Wurzbach
Project: Characterising chloroplast-related gene expression under altered Cytokinin accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Ashley Buchheit
Project: Genotyping and phenotypic characterization of sugar transport mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana
Lukas Dill
Project: Analysis of fluorescence based photosynthesis efficiency of Cytokinin-N-glucosides under stress induced leaf senescence
Lauren Weiner
Project: PCR based genotyping of Cytokinin-signalling members as potential targets of Cytokinin-N-glucosides
Summer Science Institute: Detecting transgenic plants!
Working with high school students to perform commonly used plant molecular biology techniques.
Destination STEM: Fruit or Vegetable? Let’s ‘Scope’ it Out!
Demonstrating microscopy and differentiating fruits from vegetables to 3-5th graders.
