Srishti Sinha, PhD

Dr. Srishti Sinha completed her master's degree in 2014 from Lady Irwin College, Delhi University and received her PhD degree in 2022 from St. John’s Research Insititute (SJRI), Bengaluru, India. She is a recipient of Junior and Senior Research Fellowship from Government of India which was awarded for five years. Her PhD research focused on energy metabolism and worked with stable isotopes and indirect calorimetry to measure energy expenditure and substrate oxidation. The research was aimed to characterize nocturnal fat oxidation and examine the effect of single-dose dietary bioactive compounds on nocturnal fat oxidation. She helped refurbish the indirect calorimetry suite housed in Division of Nutrition at SJRI. 

Before joining for PhD, Dr. Sinha worked with Public Health Foundation of India to improve moderate acute malnutrition in children below 5 years of age. Later she joined the University to work as an Assistant Professor. Over past few years, she had worked on estimating energy and iron requirement for Indians, finding ways to improve physical activity among adolescents, assessing trend of basal metabolic rate and conducting systematic literature reviews to determine calcium and vitamin B12 deficiency among Indians. She also worked with the Expert Committee of WHO to derive zinc requirement for young children. Prior to her postdoctoral position with Cornell, she worked with the nutrition section of the United Nation’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). She has many articles in peer-reviewed journals, is a contributing author to the IAEA-Doubly Labelled Water Database and a reviewer in international journals.  

Sarada Ghosh, PhD

Dr. Sarada Ghosh is an Assistant Professor & Head of the Department of Statistics, at Gurudas College, Kolkata, India. She received her M.Sc in Statistics (Gold medalist) from West Bengal State University (Kolkata, India) in 2017 and completed her Ph.D. in Statistical Modeling in the field of Epidemiology from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (Shibpur, India) in 2022.

Dr. Ghosh is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University. She is a Statistician with expertise in the application of complex statistical and technical skills toward the collection, analysis, and translation of statistical data from cohort studies, and public health surveillance programs. She focuses on conducting statistical modeling and data analysis on complex population surveys from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS), and National Food Consumption and Micronutrient Survey (NFCMS) in Nigeria.

Nate Cole, PhD

Dr Nate Cole obtained his BSc (Hons) in Biological and Biomedical Science from Maynooth University in Ireland in 2019, and his PhD in Microbiology from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland in 2023. His doctoral work was part of FunHoMic (www.funhomic.eu), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network funded by the European Commission. His project focused on identifying anaerobic bacteria from the human gut microbiota with the potential to be developed as live biotheraputic products (LBP's) against the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans.

Antra Ganguly, PhD

Before joining Cornell University in 2024, Dr. Antra Ganguly earned her  B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (Gold-medalist) in 2017 from India and M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2019 and 2023, respectively. Her doctoral work focused on the development of a point-of-care electrochemical biosensor platform for the diagnosis and management of recurrent Urinary Tract Infections. Her expertise and interests include lateral flow assays, electrochemical biosensors, machine learning, and translational point-of-care diagnostics. Her work has been published in several high-impact journals, including the American Society of Chemistry Sensors (ACS Sensors), Wiley Bioengineering and Translational Medicine (Wiley BioTM), and Nature Scientific Reports. She has also contributed to several review articles and book chapters. As a Postdoctoral Associate, she is enthusiastic about leveraging her skills to address nutritional and global health challenges, especially in resource-limited settings, contributing to a better and healthier future.

Catherine Kagemann, PhD