Avirup Sanyal, Graduate Student, Australia

Avirup is a PhD student at Griffith University, Australia working with Dr. Alison Peel.  Avirup received his bachelor's in microbiology and Biochemistry from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, India and further pursued his masters in virology from the National Institute of Virology, India. After studying adenovirus interactomes for his master's thesis as a Khorana Scholar at Harvard Medical School, USA, Avirup recently started his PhD to understand viral coinfections in bats and implications for pathogen spillover, with an aim to delineate the mechanisms involved using in-vitro systems.