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Needhi Bhalla
Needhi Bhalla is an American biologist. She researches mitosis and meiosis in ''Caenorhabditis elegans''. Bhalla is a professor at University of California, Santa Cruz. Early life and education Needhi Bhalla was raised on the southern shore of Long Island near Queens. She was born into a Punjabi Khatri family who emigrated to the United States from India in the 1960s and 1970s for higher education opportunities. Bhalla's mother is a nutritionist and her father, a United States Air Force engineer. In 1993, Bhalla worked as a summer intern with John Kornblum in the New York City Public Health Laboratories. In 1995, she graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College (New York). One summer during her undergraduate studies, Bhalla researched in Teri Melese's lab at Columbia University where she learned of her interest in cell biology. Bhalla completed a Doctor of Philosophy at University of California, San Francisco in 2002. She completed her doctoral resea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California, Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located in Monterey Bay, on the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz, the main campus lies on of rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. As of Fall 2024, its ten residential colleges enroll some 17,940 undergraduate and 1,998 graduate students. Satellite facilities in other Santa Cruz locations include the Coastal Science Campus and the Westside Research Park and the Silicon Valley Center in Santa Clara, California, Santa Clara, along with administrative control of the Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, San Jose in the Diablo Range and the W. M. Keck Observatory, Keck Observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Founded in 1965, UC Santa Cruz uses a residential college system consist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
