Ananya Mukherjee was a graduate student at Louisiana State University where she worked on the RIPE project. Her research focused on finding the proteins that deliver carbon dioxide in green algae. For the RIPE project, she helped characterize 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.