Biography:
Dr. Ganesh received her Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Michael Blaut from the German Institute of Human Nutrition-Potsdam Rehbruecke (DIfE), Leibniz institute, Germany from 2010 to 2014. Shortly thereafter, she relocated to Houston, TX for her post-doctoral training where she was trained by Dr. James Versalovic in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine from 2014 to 2017. She in-between held a visiting scientist position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge from 2014-2016 where she was trained by Dr. James Fox. After post-doctoral training at Baylor, she joined the department of Neurology (BRAINS lab) led by Dr. Louise McCullough at University of Texas Health Science Center Houston (UTHSC) as a senior postdoctoral fellow, Texas, USA from 2017 to 2018. In 2018, she was promoted as an Assistant Professor in the department of Neurology. Currently, her primary interest lies on investigating signaling mechanisms involved in gut-brain axis interactions in aging-associated cerebrovascular diseases especially, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy, Neonatal Hypoxic encephalopathy at UTHSC.
Title : The Gut-Brain Axis in Neurodegenerative Diseases