Urbi obtained her Ph.D. degree in molecular virology in October, 2021 from Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (ICMR-NICED), Kolkata, India. Her doctoral research was focused on studying the regulation of host RNA interference machinery in context of Rotavirus infection. Urbi received EMBO long term postdoctoral fellowship to pursue her postdoctoral research and joined Dr. Sagar Bhogaraju’s group in European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Grenoble, France in October, 2021. There Urbi started to work on E3 ubiquitin ligases, and developed a simple, cost-effective method, called UbPOD, to identify E3 ubiquitin ligase substrates in- cellulo. In August, 2024, Urbi moved to Frankfurt to join the Dikic group and here she will focus on studying E3 ubiquitin ligases involved in cytoskeleton organization.