Karishma Kalera

I grew up in Rajasthan, India, where I received a BSc in Biology from Government College Ajmer in 2011 and an MSc in Microbiology from Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University in 2013. I worked as a lecturer in the USB College of Physiotherapy/Nursing and in a tuberculosis culture laboratory in India. In 2017, I was awarded a National Overseas Scholarship from the Government of India to support Ph.D. studies abroad. In 2018, I started her doctoral studies at Central Michigan University in the lab of Dr. Ben Swarts. Karishma's research is focused on the development of trehalosamine inhibitors of mycobacterial growth and biofilm formation.