Sayantan Mitra MSc

I am a PhD student co-supervised by Dr. Chris Ambrose and Dr. Teagen Quilichini. My research involves studying leaf polarity—the asymmetric orientation of leaves into two distinct surfaces—in Arabidopsis thaliana and the various cellular processes involved in this complex phenomenon. I did my MS in 2018 from Miami University, USA, where I studied proteins involved in sister chromatid cohesion during meiosis. Before joining the University of Saskatchewan, I was a science communicator at the L V Prasad Eye Institute. I believe that science should be made accessible to the general public in the simple, easy-to-understand formats.