Kanika Khanna, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley studying the structural basis of membrane manipulation and cell-cell fusion by bacterial pathogens. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in January 2020, where she employed novel modalities in cryo-electron microscopy to uncover the mechanisms of cell division and peptidoglycan remodeling in Bacillus subtilis and jumbo phage replication in Pseudomonas. She is fascinated by the world at the intersection of science and art. You can learn about her on her website or Twitter.