Somalisa Pan | PhD Student

419 LSE 

Stillwater OK 74078

somalisa.pan [at] okstate.edu

Somalisa Pan iswasa PhD student from West Bengal, India. She studied how the protein PtsN in Pseudomonas aeruginosa represses biofilm formation through a newly discovered hydrolase and how PtsN phosphorylation affects downstream cell physiology. She decided to continue research in this field of microbiology so that she can study these pathogens at the molecular level, to understand their physiology and pave a way towards finding a therapeutic cure against them. Somalisa was supported in 2019-2020 by an OCRID Pilot Project grant and has served as a mentor to multiple undergraduate Niblack Scholars. She earned her PhD in 2024 and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in the Hauser lab.