Sara Dutta

Doctoral Student

Student, Balliol College

Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD

Interests

My research interests focus on using a combination of computer simulations and experiments to understand the mechanisms behind the initiation and maintenance of arrhythmias, and especifically the transition from VT to VF. I am particularly interested in the effects of ischaemia and mechano-electric feedback on the occurrence of these arrhythmias. In my first year I did a combined computational and experimental study on the interpretation of optical mapping recordings in a globally ischaemic heart. We showed how dual wavelength optical mapping can be used to characterise the ischaemic border zone.

Biography

I graduated from Imperial College London in 2009 with a Beng in Computer Science. I then joined Oxford as a Systems Biology DTC student. The first taught course year provided a good foundation for the interdisciplinary PhD that I started in 2010 within the Computational Biology group (and more specifically the cardiac modelling group).

Recent News

Awards

Doctoral student wins Best Poster Award

The Department's DPhil student Sara Dutta won the Best Poster Award at the Cardiovascular Technology Network meeting at Imperial College in February 2012.

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