Sunanda Williams is a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Professor Gabriel Waksman at Birkbeck, University of London, specializing in the structural biology of bacterial conjugation. She earned an MSc in Biotechnology from Mahatma Gandhi University and a PhD in Molecular Biophysics from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, where she utilized X-ray crystallography to study bacterial stress responses. In her postdoctoral work, she integrates high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) and biophysical techniques to investigate the mechanisms and structures of relaxosomes, the nucleoprotein complexes that mediate DNA transfer in bacterial conjugation. Her research explores the molecular dynamics governing the spread of antimicrobial resistance genes. Her work is supported by a Wellcome Trust grant to Gabriel Waksman and partly funded by a Wellcome fellowship. She has been awarded CSIR and ICMR Junior Research Fellowships for her PhD, and her postdoctoral research proposal received the Marie Curie Seal of Excellence.