Ronita Nag Chaudhuri

Biography

Ronita received her PhD in Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Genetics from the Department of Biochemistry, University of Calcutta, in 2006. She then moved to School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, USA for her postdoctoral research on chromatin biology. Presently she is an Associate Professor in the Postgraduate Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's College, Kolkata. She has been serving as an Associate Editor for the journal The Nucleus since 2021, and is an elected fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology. Her lab focuses on understanding the interplay of transcription factors and phytohormonal crosstalk during reprogramming of gene expression in response to environmental and developmental cues.