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I have always possessed an innate inclination for the love of life forms. My
parents and cousins say it manifested the most during my younger years, when I
ran behind dragonflies and butterflies with a yen to keep them as my pets. My
mini excursions to Sanjay Gandhi National Park that stood a few meters away
institutes of India in the field of Life Sciences at Mumbai. I selected this subject
student of Ruia, I got entitled to unrestrained access for initiating novel group
College. This fabulous department where I aspired to get myself enrolled for the
Neuroscience program, and which I did on securing the 1st merit seat, has been
team-spirit in my genome. I firmly believe that the pursuit for a doctoral degree
is highly suited to a person who harbors these qualities and bears a positive
and skeletal muscles, I compared their patterns using gel electrophoreses and
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assayed for their enzyme activity. The excitement that triggered in my nerves as
I acquired the confidence to dissect an adult chick brain in less than five minutes
and run acrylamide gels to localize the enzyme isoforms was astounding.
project aimed at human health-care benefits, the efforts for which were
appreciated and supported by the much acclaimed Lady Tata Memorial Trust’s
scholarship. I received further extension for this project, during which I enjoyed
setting up bowl cultures for physiological studies on chick embryo. I also got
microtomy. Apart from the research project I carried out, I assisted the Sophia’s
orations, journal clubs and weekly student project presentations. I feel privileged
to have attended two annual neuroscience conferences for the years 2006 and
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At the same time, I got enticed to a project at National Institute for Research in
levels, where the hormone-receptor interactions exert their actions below the
remember my first trip to the animal house where I first saw these monkeys and
such as rats and mice as well. As I entered the nanoscience arena for
‘Small is Big’.
proliferation of knowledge, its permeation into every human who yearns for it is
endlessly with perseverance and this gives me a prime reason to zero down to
doing a Ph.D. I believe that the American outlook has the best to offer in this
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course and it would surely multiply not just my learning prospects, but also of
would strive to bring out the best in me to deliver quality research and do justice
interests me is the approach adopted in Prof. Willis’s lab to merge biology with
technology. The other projects that interested me are those of Prof. Debra Wood
and Prof. David Katz. I am assured that the Neuroscience program at Case
Western Reserve, with its plethora of varied scientific research and state of the
securing the highest marks at Master’s level. I was felicitated at Sophia College
as the deserving student in senior college (science), and awarded the Suman
and Ramesh Tulsiani Golden Jubilee Scholarship. I have been a team member of
position amongst all the entries received nationwide. I consider myself a strong
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facilitating my metamorphosis from a bio-enthusiast I have always been, to the