Ankita received her PhD from Georgia State University in biological sciences. During those graduate years, she studied heme biochemistry in pathogenic Streptococci. She joined the Helmann lab in 2016 as a post-doc fellow and began investigating the case of Bacillus diabetes in cpgA knockout strains! Currently, Ankita focuses on assigning functions to unknown gene(s) and undertakes study of built-in, Bacillus STRESS response mechanisms and adaptations. Ankita hopes to be at the research and leadership frontier.
