Mahita J

Mahita J, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology since November 2020, focusing on machine learning methods to predict antibody specificity. Previous experience includes a scientific writing role at The STEM Times, a research associate position at Dartmouth College developing computational epitope binning methods, and visiting researcher activities at TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences involving structural modeling of protein interactions and peptide synthesis. Mahita also served as a bridging postdoctoral fellow and graduate student at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, contributing to odor transfer models in mosquitoes and protein modeling in immune signaling pathways. Educational qualifications include a Ph.D. in Biology from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, a Master's degree in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Bachelor of Science in Botany, Zoology, and Chemistry from Osmania University.