Sahana Sitaraman, PhD

Assistant Editor at Labx Media Group

Sahana is an Assistant Editor at The Scientist, where she crafts stories that bring the wonders and oddities of science to life. In 2022, she earned a PhD in neuroscience from the National Centre for Biological Sciences, India, studying how neurons develop their stereotypical tree-like shapes. In a parallel universe, Sahana is a passionate singer and an enthusiastic hiker.

Education

National Centre for Biological Sciences, India

PhD

Award

Rukhmabai Initiatives Fellowship

Sharon Dunwoody Science Journalism Mentoring Program

Articles by Sahana Sitaraman, PhD

A group of newborn mice with their mother.

Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

Sahana Sitaraman, PhD | | 3 min read

Flowering Asarum flower and pollinating Megaselia fly.

Floral Stink Evolved Through Three Amino Acid Changes

Sahana Sitaraman, PhD | | 3 min read

An illustration of an eye made with dots.

Is the World Spinning, or Is It Me? How the Brain Distinguishes Self and External Motion

Sahana Sitaraman, PhD | | 4 min read

An illustration depicting the fundamental relationship between sound and life. It shows sound waves merging with a DNA helix, over a background of mouse cells.

Sound Waves Can Change Fat Cell Fates

Sahana Sitaraman, PhD | | 2 min read

Large clumps of bacteria (pink) entrapped by webs of DNA (green) released by neutrophils in human urine.

When a Urinary Tract Infection Strikes, What Protects the Kidneys?

Sahana Sitaraman, PhD | | 5 min read

Time-lapsed pictures of a starfish oocyte with light-induced pinching on one end of the cell.

Round Cells Square Up with an Optogenetic Switch

Sahana Sitaraman, PhD | | 3 min read

A human somatosensory pathway recreated in a dish.

Neural Assembloids Recreate a Key Pain-Sensing Circuit in a Dish

Sahana Sitaraman, PhD | | 3 min read

An illustration showing diverse protein domains, represented as squiggly gray structures, on a black background.

Unstable Protein Variants Linked to Many Human Diseases

Sahana Sitaraman, PhD | | 4 min read

An abstract concept of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease depicted using the loss of leaves from a tree in the shape of a human face.

A Protein Ratio Could Predict Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Decades in Advance

Sahana Sitaraman, PhD | | 3 min read

An infant thinking and possibly forming memories.

Babies Form Memories. Why Do Adults Forget Them?

Sahana Sitaraman, PhD | | 3 min read

An illustration of the human intestinal microbiota. Hypoxic guts can help avoid fungal blooms post antibiotic treatment.

Hypoxia Makes the Gut Healthy

Sahana Sitaraman, PhD | | 4 min read

Epithelial cells (green) produce electrical signals in response to laser-induced wounds (bright spots).

Skin Cells Create Neuron-Like Electric Signals

Sahana Sitaraman, PhD | | 3 min read

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