About

Dr. Deepa Rajan is a scientist living in San Francisco. She is in the MD/PhD program at the University of California, San Francisco and holds a PhD in Cell Biology. She is also a former Fulbright Scholar at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India. She studies complex behaviors across the tree of life, from cells to humans, and has most recently made discoveries about how single cells learn and make memories without a brain. She is an avid public speaker and has given several talks about education, feminism, and science, including a TEDx talk about the effects of music on the brain.