Sammani De Silva is currently a NSF funded Research Assistant attached to the Molecular Microbiology & Human Diseases research group at the National Institute of Fundamental Studies (NIFS). She received her B.Sc. in Microbiology from the Lovely Professional University, India in 2018 and currently reading for her M.Sc in Medical Microbiology at the University of Peradeniya and joined NIFS at 2020. Her research focuses on cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins as a causative factor for CKDu. Her research interests include Microbiology and Molecular Biology.