Postdoc, Pipettes, and Pages: A New Chapter Begins
Hello everyone!
I am a postdoctoral researcher working at the intersection of immunology and metabolism, with a focus on T cell-mediated responses in Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). It is a niche but rapidly advancing field where immune-metabolic crosstalk is reshaping how we understand chronic diseases. My work explores how immune cells communicate across tissues like liver and adipose, uncovering pathways that drive inflammation and fibrosis in MASLD.
My scientific journey began in India, rooted in cancer biology, and has since led me to London, where I now investigate clinical immunology using human samples and multiomics technologies. Along the way, I have come to appreciate that science isn’t just about conducting experiments - It is also about communicating, questioning, and connecting.
As someone who bridges both wet-lab experiments and computational analysis, I constantly find myself shifting between minute technical decisions - like optimising antibody staining or choosing clustering parameters in Seurat - and broader conceptual questions about immune regulation and disease progression. That duality is exciting but also mentally taxing, and in the chaos of experiments and deadlines, I kept telling myself I had start this blog “soon.”
Truth is, I have been procrastinating on writing this for a long time. Not because I didn’t want to - but because like many postdocs, I often felt too stretched, too unsure, or too perfectionistic to start. Between visa renewals, publication pressure, and the sheer unpredictability of working with human samples, finding time (and mental space) to write for myself felt like a luxury.
But I have come to realise that writing doesn’t have to wait for perfect clarity. In fact, this blog is an attempt to bring clarity through writing - A personal and professional space to document what I am learning, reflect on the messy parts of science, and share insights that might resonate with others walking a similar path.
Here, you can expect posts that touch on topics close to my work:
- T cells in tissue inflammation and fibrosis
- Single-cell data analysis
- Human immunopathology in the context of liver disease
- Computational tools I have found useful (and those I am still wrestling with)
- Reflections on the postdoc experience, perspective of an international researcher
This space will not be just a summary of what I have figured out - It will be a living archive of things I didn’t even realise I knew until I had to explain them. If you are someone who lives between code and cell culture, between curiosity and imposter syndrome - welcome aboard.
Let us explore science not only as a discipline but as a dialogue.