Shweta is a postdoc at the DiAntonio Lab in the Department of Developmental Biology. She did her Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pune, India. For her doctoral work, she explored the role of non-neuronal cells in the progression of a motor neurodegenerative disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Currently, at the DiAntonio Lab, she studies the mechanisms that define axon degeneration.