Ashlesha

Gogate

Ashlesha completed her bachelor’s degree in Engineering from India and master’s degree in Bioinformatics from Georgia Tech. During graduate school, she was a part of Storici lab and studied the consequences of excessive ribonucleotide incorporation in DNA. She also worked briefly on Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease in a drug discovery startup focused on neurodegenerative diseases. As a computational biologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center, she is now involved in projects focused on autism spectrum disorder, analyzing different types of sequencing data in the Chahrour lab. Ashlesha enjoys cooking, hiking, and is a dog aunt to her favorite - Mowgli!