Krishna earned his undergraduate degree in Microbiology and Cell Science at the University of Florida, where he studied microbial adaptations in freshwater rivers with Dr. Andrew Ogram. He received his PhD at the University of South Florida in the labs of Drs. Robert Deschenes and Vladimir Uversky, studying palmitoylation enzymes and their substrates through bioinformatics, yeast genetics, and biochemistry. During his PhD, he spent a summer as an NSF EAPSI graduate fellow with Dr. Masaki Fukata, examining membrane trafficking of palmitoyltransferases in primary neurons.
As an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow, and later Instructor, with Dr. Olga Boudker, Krishna investigated the structure, function, and dynamics of glutamate transporters. He grew interested in how molecular evolution could sharpen our understanding of transporter mechanism, and applied ancestral protein reconstruction to trace the evolution of ion coupling in glutamate transporters. In 2025, he returned to the Department of Molecular Medicine at USF to start his independent group.
When he’s not in the lab, Krishna enjoys being a dog dad, traveling to national parks with his better half, and seeing live music.
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