Sheetal Gandotra is Senior Principal Scientist at the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi. Her group works to understand the role of lipid metabolism during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection with a focus on inflammation in tuberculosis. Using a multipronged approach of cell and molecular biology, genomics and biochemistry, her group studies the role of lipid droplets and proteins in the innate immune defence against mycobacteria as well as lipid remodelling pathways of mycobacteria that help it counter host defense mechanisms and cause inflammation.
