Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ

Biography

Subhshri Sahu, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Department of Biology at Western Carolina University. Before joining WCU, Dr. Sahu was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Emory University (2022-2023) and Bates College (2021-2022). She worked as Postdoctoral Associate at University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (2016 - 2020) and University of Virginia (2014 -2016). Dr Sahu earned her PhD from National Centre for Cell Science as a CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) fellow in India. She earned her master’s degree in animal biotechnology from University of Hyderabad, India and bachelor’s degree in biotechnology from Osmania University, India.<br>​<br>She is experienced geneticist and molecular biologist with 12 plus years of research experiences on range of model systems from Human and mouse derived primary cultures to <i>Drosophila melanogaster.</i> In addition to her knowledge of genetics she specializes in micro-dissection and variety of microscopy.

Education

• Ph D, University of Pune

Teaching Interests

BIOL 240: Introduction to Genetics<br>BIOL 333: Cell and Molecular Biology lab<br>BIO 493: M & M (Micro-dissection and Microscopy)<br>BIO480: Research in Biology<br>Dr. Sahu has also developed and taught upper level molecular biology lecture and CURE labs at Bates College. During her time at Bates College she also developed summer skills course to train students in biological techniques to prepare them for further internships and /or graduate school.<br>She has also taught Genetics lecture and CURE lab course at intro levels at Oxford College of Emory University

Research Interests

Dietary input has huge impact on physiology and fertility/ovulation/ oogenesis. Hormones and metabolic pathways integrate nutritional status to these processes. Reproductive processes like oogenesis is an energetically expensive process. Oogenesis is a stem cell supported process, which in turn reads the dietary status through hormone and metabolic process directly or indirectly (interorgan communication). Under poor food conditions animals would choose surviving over reproduction. My lab focuses on how organism chooses between physiology and fertility when there is poor food/ starvation. We study stem cells supported oogenesis in adult female <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> to decipher this mechanism of selective energy allocation under stress like starvation.