Ananya Mukherjee is a graduate student at Louisiana State University. Her research focuses on finding the proteins that deliver carbon dioxide in green algae. For the RIPE project, she will be working on a project that involves characterizing a new family of putative bicarbonate transporters in the carbon dioxide concentrating mechanism of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Ananya earned her bachelor's degree in biotechnology from West Bengal University of Technology. Her work is published in Molecular Plant, Plant Methods and Journal of Experimental Botany.