About Me
I am currently a postdoctoral associate in Ed Boyden's lab at MIT
I recently finished my PhD in Neuroscience, working on developing engineered Toxoplasma gondii as potential biological vectors for delivery of proteins to the central nervous system. I did my PhD in Oded Rechavi's group at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with Lilach Sheiner's group at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology at the University of Glasgow. After finishing my PhD, I helped start Epeius Pharma, a biotech startup that will use the technologies from my PhD to develop therapies for neurological diseases.
My main interests are in synthetic biology, bioengineering, evolutionary biology, microbial diversity and the ways in which they can be combined.
My pronouns are she/her.
shaharbra at gmail dot com
