Aarthi Gopinathan began her graduate studies at SJU in the fall of 2001.  Her Ustilago research involved comparing polarity and filamentation in a variety of wild-type and mutant strains, and she presented her work in Germany as well as at meetings in the US.  Before coming to SJU, Aarthi received her BSc from Madras University in Microbiology, and took graduate courses in Genetics.  She is currently in a doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania.