Presenting Author
The University of Texas at Dallas
Nisansala Sandamali Abeyrathna was born and raised in Kandy, Sri Lanka. She did her Bachelor of Science degree specializing in Chemistry at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka from 2013-2016. Immediately after her graduation she joined the academic staff of the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka as a teaching assistant where she conducted General Chemistry laboratory classes for BSc students in their freshman year. In 2017, Nisansala joined to the graduate program of The University of Texas at Dallas and worked with Prof. Gabriele Meloni to study the mechanisms of substrate translocation in different classes of transmembrane transporter proteins. She worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (2017-2019) and a Graduate Research Assistant at The University of Texas at Dallas (2019-2022).