Dr. Krittika Sudhakar graduated from PSG College of Arts and Science (affiliated with Bharathiar University), Coimbatore, India with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry. She did her Master’s in advanced biochemistry at University of Madras, Chennai, India, and Ph.D. degree in biochemistry/biotechnology at SASTRA Deemed University (Advisor: Dr. Pankaj Yadav), Tamil Nadu, India. She studied the short- and long-term effect of diet restriction in influencing the fitness and its related traits in fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster. Her current project is investigating how maternal nutrition can influence the offspring metabolism and development. Her skills lie in assessing phenotypic, fitness, fitness-related, behavioral (RING, chemotaxis and phototaxis) and biochemical parameters in D. melanogaster alongside nutritional geometry studies. In 2022, Dr. Krittika Sudhakar joined the lab of Dr. Adelheid Lempradl at Van Andel Institute as a postdoctoral fellow.

AWARDS AND EXTERNAL FUNDING

• DST-INSPIRE junior research fellow (Jan 2018- May 2020) and senior research fellow (June 2020- March 2022)
• Fellowship for Ph.D. from Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India.
• Sudhakar Krittika- First Person Interview- Biology Open, The Company of Biologists. June 2019; 8: bio044966. Doi: 10.1242/bio.044966.
• DST-AWSAR Best story Awardee 2019 (DST, Government of India)