Research Assistant
Mala is a research assistant in the Gadagkar Lab. In 2023, she graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Neuroscience, with a concentration in behavioral and systems neuroscience. At Michigan State, Mala worked in the Johnson Lab where she studied the role that susceptibility to obesity had on the neuroanatomy of feeding centers in the brain of mice. Broadly, Mala is interested in the neural mechanisms of evaluation during learning and social communication.