Geeta Narlikar (born ????) is an American biologist of Indian origin and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.
Life and career
editNarlikar is a faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco. She works in the understanding of the mechanism for genome compartmentalization, chromatin remodeling and epigenetic regulation. She completed her masters in chemistry from IIT , Bombay in the year 1992 before moving to Stanford University in 1998 for her Ph.D. She did her postdoctoral research at the Harvard Medical School. She is recently working in the role of phase separation regulating the heterochromatin formation. Prof. Narlikar's scientific work has been recognized by different awards during the course of her faculty career. These include the Beckman Young Investigator Award (2006)[1], the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar Award (2008), the Outstanding Faculty Mentorship Award by the UCSF Graduate Students Association (2011) and the Deleage Prize awarded by the Deleage foundation (2017). Since 2017, Professor Narlikar has been appointed to the Lewis and Ruth Cozen Chair I.