Prahlad Lab Team

• PhD in Genetics – University of Iowa
• BS in Biology-Genetics – University of Puerto Rico

Johnny’s current research focuses on robustness and variability in gene expression, including developing bioinformatics methods to study variability in expression in tumors, investigating the role of piRNA in the regulation of stress in C. elegans, and analyzing transcriptional changes in C. elegans mutants under stress.

His dissertation is titled “Causes and Consequences of Crossing Over Variation in Drosophila melanogaster.”

• MS in Biotechnology – Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
• BTech in Biotechnology - Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Tamil Nadu, India

Prior to joining Dr. Prahlad’s lab, Nithya also worked with Roswell Park researchers Mukund Seshadri, DDS, PhD, Pamela Hershberger, PhD; Agnieszka Witkiewicz, MD, and Eric Knudsen, PhD.

• MS in Biomedical Sciences – Bharathidasan University

Kavinila’s research is uncovering the signaling molecules involved in the undescribed IL-17 dauer pathway in C. elegans and to understand the crosstalk between the IL-17 and the existing dormancy pathways.

She previously worked as a project assistant at the National Brain Research Centre in Haryana, India, under the supervision of Dr. Anindya Ghosh Roy.