Dr. Zutshi received her bachelor of engineering and master of science degrees in biology and computer science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, in India, and completed her master’s thesis with Carmen Sandi, PhD, at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, working on the epigenetic transmission of behavioral phenotypes. She went on to receive her PhD from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she worked in the laboratory of Stefan Leutgeb, PhD. Her thesis work focused on understanding how networks within the medial entorhinal cortex and hippocampus support spatial navigation and memory. During her PhD studies she was the recipient of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Research Fellowship, and her thesis work was awarded the UCSD Biology Founding Faculty Award for Graduate Excellence. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of György Buzsáki, MD, PhD, where she is combining in vivo electrophysiology and optogenetics to pursue her interest in understanding how connections between neurons within the hippocampus give rise to sharp-wave ripples and theta oscillations, both complex physiological phenomenon that support memory.
