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Dr. Sharmila Bhattacharya (born 24 March 1964 in Jaipur, India) is the head of the Biomodel Performance and Behavior laboratory at NASA .

Education

After getting a Bachelors degree in Biological Chemistry from Wellesley College, she started her career out as an undergraduate research assistant in the biochemistry lab at Princeton University. After that she earned her Masters degree and Ph.D. at Princeton University for her research in Molecular Biology, where she studied for the signal transduction pathway for the ras oncogene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. She then went on to do her post-doctoral research at Stanford University in Neurobiology.

Career

She worked as a lecturer of Psychobiology at UC Santa Cruz. Then she was hired as a payload scientist by Lockheed Martin to work at the NASA Ames Center. She was later promoted to the spot of Chief Scientist in the Life Sciences division of the Ames center .

Papers

• Developing New Habitats for Life Science Experiments on the International Space Station

References

1. Board of Governors Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
2. ^ Meet:Sharmila Bhattacharya NASA
3. Directory Stanford University

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