Vartika Sharma

I'm a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology at UCLA, working in Prof. David Walker’s lab since January 2022. My current research focuses on understanding the mechanistic relationships between intestinal barrier dysfunction, aging, and age-onset neuroinflammation using Drosophila as a model system. I earned my Ph.D. in Molecular and Human Genetics from Banaras Hindu University, where I studied the role of Deltex in regulating signaling pathways in Drosophila.