Iswarya Muthukumarasamy is a Ph.D. candidate in the Hurley Lab. She joined RPI in January 2019 to pursue a PhD in Chemical Engineering. She earned her bachelor’s in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. Her undergraduate research focused on utilization of ceramic membranes to remove dye particles from textile industry waste effluents. During the later phase of her undergraduate, her focus shifted towards the field of biotechnology, which led her to be a part of my institute’s iGEM team where they worked on engineering E. coli to help reduce odor in public urinals. At RPI, her research is focused on understanding the influence of the circadian clock on the activation of NADPH oxidase enzyme in microglial cells. This might shed some light on the influence of immune cell response in the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease.