Rahul Sehgal, B.S.

Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow

Education:

B.S., 2024, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

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Biography

Rahul Sehgal joined the BPARS as a Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow in September 2025. His research focuses on investigating antibiotic resistance in clinical Bacteroides fragilis isolates mediated by epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation. He brings prior research experience with single-cell RNA sequencing and is currently using Oxford Nanopore and Illumina short-read sequencing approaches.