Rubina obtained her master’s degree in biotechnology from VSBT, Baramati, India, and completed her PhD in 2018 at NCL, Pune, India. Her PhD thesis was focused on the regulation of aging by glycation inhibitors in yeast. In 2021, she joined Prof. Ullas Kolthur’s lab at TIFR, Mumbai, India as a postdoc, where she investigated the regulation of O-GlcNAcylation by cellular and mitochondrial energetics in primary hepatocytes. She joined the Dikic lab as a postdoctoral fellow in January 2024, where she is a part of the mass spectrometry team.