Sakshi Dokania is a doctoral student at the Biological and Life Sciences division, School of Arts and Sciences. She graduated with an Integrated Masters in Biotechnology from St Xavier’s College, Kolkata, post which she worked as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at SSKM Hospital, Kolkata. She is interested in understanding the importance of voltage gated ion channels, especially the role of KCNQ channels in action potential patterning.