Shimi Meleppattu

Shimi received her Ph.D. from Pune University, India where she studied stress-induced regulation of protein synthesis in protozoan parasites. As a postdoctoral fellow at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, and later at Harvard Medical School, she worked on the characterization of translational initiation in Leishmania. Shimi joined the lab in 2019 as a Research Associate and works to understand the mechanisms of intraflagellar transport in Leishmania. In 2022, she determined the structure of the IFT-A complex.