Concentration: Population Medicine and Epidemiology
Faculty Co-Mentors:  Laura Goodman & Casey Cazer
 

Brief Biography: Gayatri grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and completed her undergraduate degree at Penn State. In college, she spent summers at the National Aviary’s Teaching Hospital, Tristate Bird Rescue and Research’s Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, Forgotten Cats, and Penn State’s Dairy Barns. Gayatri was an undergraduate researcher at Penn State’s Animal Diagnostic Laboratory, and her Schreyer Honors thesis, under the mentorship of Dr. Bhushan Jayarao, focused on developing a field-level diagnostic assay to detect infectious coryza in chickens. In her free time, Gayatri enjoys reading, watching movies and sports, playing the violin, and dancing Bharatnatyam.

Education:
B.S. in Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences with a minor in One Health, The Pennsylvania State University, 2022

Research Interest Statement: 
Gayatri is interested in genomics, infectious disease research, geospatial mapping, and diagnostic assay development. In the future, she would like to become a veterinary epidemiologist and use her clinical and research training in a public health setting.

Publications:
Gontu, A, Marlin, E.A., Ramasamy, S., Neerukonda, S., Anil, G., Morgan, J., Quraishi, M., Chen, C., Boorla, V.S., Nissly, R.H., Jakka, P., Chothe, S.K., Ravichandran, A., Kodali, N., Amirthalingam, S., LaBella, L., Kelly, K., Natesan, P., Minns, A.M., Rossi, R.M., Werner, J.R., Hovingh, E., Lindner, S.E., Tewari, D., Kapur, V., Vandegrift, K.J., Maranas, C.D., Surendran Nair, M., Kuchipudi, S.V. (2022). Development and Validation of Indirect Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays for Detecting Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in Cattle, Swine, and Chicken. Viruses, 14(7): 1358. https://doi.org/10.3390/v14071358

Anil, G. (2022). Development of a Prototype Immuno-Lateral Flow Assay for Antigen Detection of Avibacterium paragallinarum Isolates. [Bachelor’s thesis, The Schreyer’s Honors College]. The Pennsylvania State University.

Presentations:
“Development of an Immuno-lateral Flow Assay to Detect Infectious Coryza in Chickens.” Poster presentation at The Pennsylvania State University Undergraduate Research Exhibition, March 30, 2021, University Park, PA.

“IL-33 Enhances Anti-tumor effects of Anti-CEA CAR-T Cells.” Oral presentation at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Tumor Immunology and poster presentation at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Academy, August 4, 2017, Pittsburgh, PA.