Dr. Nirakar Sahoo is a faculty member in Biology at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His research focuses on lysosomes, autophagy, lysosomal ion channels, TRPML1, ROS signaling, mitochondrial stress, ferroptosis, microscopy, and quantitative image analysis. His NASA MPLAN interest is to develop a human-cell platform to study lysosomal control of inflammasome activation in radiation-relevant cardiovascular injury while training HSI students in NASA-relevant biomedical research.