Student Information
Graduate Student
Global Health
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Graduate Student
Global Health
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Long Bio
Medhavi Verma is a PhD student in the Global Health program in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, advised by Dr. India Schneider-Crease. Hailing from New Delhi, India, she moved to the US to attend Washington University in St. Louis in 2018, where she majored in Biology and minored in Psychology. As a member of the Ben-Shahar Lab, she explored the gene-brain-behavior relationship in glial cholinergic receptors. After graduating, she joined the Bracewell Lab at Indiana University where she studied chromosomal evolution and speciation in flies, beetles, and fungi. Medhavi is broadly interested in disease and behavioral ecology and evolution, human-wildlife interaction, and conservation. She is investigating disease dynamics of tapeworm infections in geladas as a part of the Simien Mountains Gelada Research Project.