Biography:
Dr. Chitra Upadhyay received her PhD degree in 2003 from India. She then and moved to USA in 2005 for her postdoctoral training. She took a career break from 2009-2012 to raise her family and later she joined NYU Langone Medical Center for a second post-doc. In 2015 she joined Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as an Instructor after which in 2017 she obtained the position of Assistant Professor at the same institution. Her research primarily focusses on HIV-1 pathogenesis and vaccine development.
Title : Distinct mechanisms regulate the exposure of Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Epitopes on HIV-1 particles