Katuri Pal received her bachelor’s degree in Physiology from Presidency College, University of Calcutta and went on to complete her masters from Madurai Kamaraj University. During her PhD training, she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Kathryn Defea at the University of California, Riverside. For her PhD thesis she worked on non-canonical, scaffold driven signaling by G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). As a part of her PhD training, she was actively involved with teaching undergraduate students of biology. She then joined Dr. Saikat Mukhopadhyay’s laboratory at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, for her postdoctoral training. Here, she worked on the regulation of the Sonic Hedgehog pathway by GPCRs which localized to the primary cilia. She then joined the laboratory of Dr. Velia Fowler, at the Scripps Research Institute, as a Judith Graham Poole postdoctoral fellow to work on the role of cytoskeletal proteins in megakaryocyte to platelet differentiation.