Dr. Prajna Tripathi is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA. She obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Banaras Hindu University (India) in 2010 and 2012, respectively, and her Ph.D. from the National Institute of Immunology (India) in 2019. She is currently working on the development of regulatable expression systems in Mycobacteria and using CRISPRi-associated functional genomics to identify novel pharmacological targets in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.