Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, United States
Dr. Mehani completed her educational training mainly from India. She was first introduced to the amazing field of bioinformatics and its application in science in 2011 when she joined her masters at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU, Varanasi), and there has been no going back since then. She was trained by Dr. Arijit Mukhopadhyay at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB, New Delhi, India) where she joined his group as a project fellow in 2011 to study comparative genomics using spectrum of CNVs, somatic mosaicism and non-coding RNAs in human brain. In 2014, she enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the same lab where she did her doctoral research on transcriptomics changes in human brain mediated by fusion transcripts and RNA editing. For post-doctoral training, she joined Dr. Aldape’s lab at NCI in December 2018 as a visiting fellow to investigate the regulatory landscape of gliomas by integrating single cell RNA Seq with the deconvolved bulk tumors and other multi-omics.