Anusree Saha
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Cambridge
Anusree got her PhD from the University of Hyderabad in India, where she worked extensively to understand the role of ribosomal protein genes in abiotic and biotic stress tolerance in rice. She then worked in India as an Assistant Professor for three years before moving to the UK. In 2023, she joined Niab in Cambridge as a postdoctoral researcher focusing on understanding the role of strigolactones in wheat nitrogen responsiveness. Anusree is now a postdoc in the Luginbuehl lab, where she will be exploring the molecular mechanisms that allow plants to regulate carbon transfer to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. She will also test whether carbon allocation, and therefore the cost–benefit balance of the symbiosis, can be manipulated by genetic engineering of host plants.