Postdoctoral Fellow
Education:
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata, India
Biography
Rahul Basu is a postdoctoral fellow under the Rocky Mountain Lab (RML)-Bethesda (Rocky-Beth) collaborative program. He received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, India where his project was directed to understand the changes in neuroglial interaction in a murine coronavirus infection model. In 2017, he joined Dr. Karin Peterson’s Neuroimmunology Section at RML to study the age-related changes in blood-brain barrier permeability that contributes to La Crosse virus (bunyavirus) susceptibility in children. Through the Rocky-Beth Program, he transitioned to Dr. Fraser’s Signaling Systems Section in 2019 to perform focused genetic screening and host-factor targeting in his La Crosse study. Since the onset of the COVID pandemic, he has also worked on development of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection models. Outside the lab Rahul loves travelling and landscape photography.