Prachee Avasthi, Assistant Professor at University of Kansas Medical Center

Prachee is an Assistant Professor in the Anatomy and Cell Biology Department and Ophthalmology Department at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City. Her laboratory studies the formation and regulation of ciliary structures using Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and mammalian cell culture. Passionate about open science, Prachee sits on the Board of Directors for the Open Access journal eLife and the non-profit organization ASAPbio. She has also lead an excellent course, “Analysis of Scientific Papers”, in which she taught students how to write peer reviews and critically evaluate scientific manuscripts using preprints.