Dr. Kaur received her bachelor of science degree and a master’s degree in biotechnology from Punjab University in Chandigarh, India. She did her PhD thesis research in the laboratory of Shailly Tomar, PhD, at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, working on the biology of alphaviruses. In her thesis studies, she elucidated the structure and function of alphavirus antiviral molecules. Dr. Kaur is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Nathaniel R. Landau, PhD, where she is using the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus mouse model to investigate viral mechanisms of neuroinflammation and the neuroimmune response to viral infection. She is studying the mechanisms by which viruses cause neuroinflammation, focusing on the role of antiviral cytolytic T lymphocytes, infiltrating myeloid cells and brain glial cells. She is also working toward developing cell-based vaccines against neuro-tropic virus infection.
