In 2011, I completed my Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology from the Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology under Prof. Detlef Weigel. 2011, I received ARC-APD Post-doctoral Fellowship and moved to Monash University to work on Alternative splicing in plants, and this work was published in Sureshkumar et al. 2016, Nature Plants. During my Ph.D., I discovered the triplet repeat expansion-associated phenotype in Arabidopsis, a genetic model plant; at the molecular level, repeat expansions in plants parallel to human Fredrich ataxia. Recently, we showed that molecular epigenetic mechanisms are associated with triplet repeat-mediated gene expression (Eimer, Sureshkumar, et al.,2018, Cell). This study was supported by an ARC-Discovery collaborative grant awarded in 2012. I am an ARC-Future Fellow, and my lab is continuing to work on the mechanisms of triplet-repeat expansions. Both my Ph.D. and post-doctoral research works have been published in PLoS Genetics, Nature Genetics, Science, Nature, Cell, Nature Plants, and Nature Communications.