Indrayani Waghmare, PhD
Indrayani joined the lab as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2016. She is studying how secreted ligands are distributed from the source cells to target cells in the extracellular space to orchestrate development. She received her bachelors of science degree in 2009 from Hislop College majoring in chemistry, zoology, and biotechnology. She earned a masters degree in molecular biology from Umea University, Sweden, in 2011. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Dayton, Ohio, in 2016, working under the mentorship of Dr. Madhuri Kango-Singh where she studied alterations in inter-cellular signaling during tumor development using fly epithelial tumor models.
Indrayani hails from the city of Nashik in Maharashtra, India. She considers herself to be fortunate to be a part of a family that has had her back through thick and thin and taught her to be brave enough to overcome failures. She has a wonderful and supportive husband who (she believes) has an unwarranted fear of green chillies used in her cooking. She enjoys cooking, painting, Indian classical music, reading, and writing. She hopes to travel around the world someday to discover cultures through food, music, and art. She is terrified of pets but is currently considering getting a fish to get over her fear of animals. Fortunately, flies don’t scare her.
