Dr. Sridharan obtained her undergraduate and Masters degrees in India. She worked on transcriptional control of developmental transitions during thymocyte maturation for her Phd from University of California, Los Angeles. During her postdoctoral work she uncovered functional contributions of each Yamanaka factor in the reprogramming of somatic cells to induced pluripotent stem cells. Her lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison has discovered mechanisms of epigenetic regulation of cell fate in the maintenance of pluripotency using ensemble and single cell genomic techniques. She is a recipient of the Basil O' Connor, Kimmel Scholar and the Greater Milwaukee Foundation-Shaw Scientist award