A Warm welcome to Dr. Pavithra P. Nayak, who has jointly joined the NICE group as well as the lab of Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan at NCBS. Pavithra will be working on interaction studies of Rhododendron across elevational gradients in North-East India from an ecology and evolutionary perspective. She has joined our labs as part of the NER-DBT program. We are so excited to work with her!