Smitha Hegde

Smitha joined the team to develop low cost diagnostics to detect Salmonella typhi using Cas12 models. During her Ph.D., she worked on understanding the mechanism of Escherichia coli’s intracellular-pressure homeostasis using single-cell high resolution imaging techniques. She is passionate about working in the niche intersection between bacterial basic science and technology to develop innovative applications. Intrigued by the unicellular life of bacteria and the wonders microbiome can do to human body, she dreams that the future of medicine converges to consuming variety of bacterial concoctions to treat illnesses.