Rishabh Kapoor

/in /by

Rishabh Kapoor

Post Doctoral Researcher
rkapoor@g.harvard.edu


Website

Current Position: IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellow, Tufts University

Education:

B.S. Stanford University

Research Interests:

Rishabh completed his undergraduate degree in Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at Stanford University, with a minor in Education. His undergraduate research focused on the mechanisms underlying the transcriptional activation of the zygotic genome in early Xenopus development.

As a Systems, Synthetic and Quantitative Biology PhD student in our lab, Rishabh delved into evolutionary biology and pursued projects that bridged his interests in molecular and evolutionary mechanisms. Rishabh was supported by a Graduate Research Training Fellowship (GRFP) funded by the National Science Foundation for his doctoral work.

He is currently an IRACDA Fellow at Tufts University, pursuing postdoctoral research with Daniel Promislow and Nathan Clark.

Publications while at Extavour Lab:

The dynamic evolution of panarthropod germ cell specification mechanisms. Jonchee A. Kao, Emily L. Rivard, Rishabh R. Kapoor and Cassandra G. Extavour Development, 153 (7): dev205168. (2026).

Related Media: [PubMed]
View PDF
Evolutionary innovation through fusion of sequences from across the tree of life. Rishabh R. Kapoor, Evelyn E. Schwager, Supanat Phuangphong, Emily L. Rivard, Chandrashekar Kuyyamudi, Suhrid Ghosh, Isobel Ronai and Cassandra G. Extavour PNAS, 123 (29): e2602557123 (2026). [PubMed]
View PDF

Other Publications:

The DNA-to-cytoplasm ratio broadly activates zygotic gene expression in Xenopus. D. Jukam, R.R. Kapoor, A. F. Straight, J.M. Skotheim. Current Biology 31(19):4269-4281 (2021)