Rochelle Pereira

Rochelle Pereira is a graduate student in the Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA. She grew up in a small state called Goa in India. She received her B.Sc. degree, in the field of Microbiology, in 2018 at St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa, India, and an M.Sc. degree in Microbiology, at Goa University, Goa, India in 2020. She joined Miami University in the Spring term 2021 and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Microbiology. Her Ph.D. dissertation is focused on understanding microbial interactions in Antarctic ice-covered Lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valley's, Antarctica.