Novel Roles of Actin Cytoskeleton on Mitochondrial Dynamics and Homeostasis

Dr Rajarshi Chakrabarti is a research associate at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, working as a postdoctoral scientist in the lab of Professor Henry Higgs. Dr Chakrabarti completed his BS in Zoology and MS in Biophysics & Molecular Biology from University of Calcutta. Dr. Chakrabarti then finished his PhD in biochemistry in 2015, where he studied spatio-temporal regulation and function of lipid kinases and in the nucleus.

In 2015, Dr. Chakrabarti joined Professor Higgs lab as a postdoctoral scientist where became interested in mechanisms of mitochondrial dynamics, more specifically in analysing how actin filaments regulate mitochondria dynamics. For the last four years at Dartmouth, Dr. Chakrabarti has made valuable contributions in the field of mitochondria dynamics and has worked to uncover the cellular and molecular mechanisms of actin regulated mitochondrial dynamics. The results of his work were published in 10 papers in high impact journals, were Dr Rajarshi Chakrabarti has been co-author, main author and even corresponding author.

Claudia graduated in Applied Chemistry, has a MSc in Human Molecular Biology, a PhD in Cell Biology, and two postdocs in Cell Biology.
With more than 15 years' experience in research, Claudia has worked in several areas like cell biology, HIV studies, oncobiology, endocrinology and neurosciences. In 2010 Claudia joined Universidade do Algarve as a facility manager and three years after Claudia become the director of Advanced Light Microscopy Facility.
In May 2019, Claudia joined Andor Technologies as a Product Specialist in the Microscopy Systems Division.

Meredith is the Imaris Product and Business Manager. She previously worked as an Imaris Sales Engineer from 2010-2017. Meredith received a MS in Biology from the University of Oregon and studied cell signaling and tissue polarity in Mark Peifer's lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.