Biography
Professor Maitrayee DasGupta is an INSA Senior Scientist in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Calcutta, where she served as a Professor for three decades. Her research probes the molecular innovations underlying the evolution of intracellular symbioses between plants and nitrogen-fixing bacteria. She focuses on nodule organogenesis and rhizobial endocytosis to understand how existing developmental and cellular modules have been recruited during the evolution of symbiosis.