Adrita is one of the recipients of the Graduate Research Excellence Grant (GREG) R. C. Lewontin Early Award this year, given by the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE). The award will support her PhD thesis project to analyse the effect of mutation rate on mutualisms. Congratulations Adrita, and good luck with your upcoming... Continue Reading →
Congratulations Pahil!
Pahil was awarded a LOTUS fellowship to support academic exchange for a new collaboration in Japan. Over the next two years, she will initiate work with Fyodor Kondrashov's group on the fitness effects of mutations in regulatory RNAs. Congratulations Pahil, we look forward to your discoveries!
2025 RVP (Bhatnagar) award
Deepa received the 2025 Rashtriya Vigyan Yuva Puraskar (Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award) from the President of India, in recognition for our lab's work in molecular evolution and evolutionary ecology. We are grateful for the generous support from NCBS staff, which makes it possible to do high quality work. The recognition is a nice boost for... Continue Reading →
Congratulations Dr. Singhal!
Shivansh just defended his PhD thesis, summarizing nearly 6 years of hard work to understand the genomic basis of adaptation and divergence in flour beetles. Along the way, he assembled a new genome for Tribolium castaneum, picking up serious genomics chops and expertise on population genetics and flour beetle biology. Apart from his own thesis,... Continue Reading →
SMBE Faculty award for Deepa
At the Annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), Deepa accepted the 2024 Mid-career faculty excellence award from past society President Kateryna Makova. It is an honor to receive this award, which recognizes our group's work in molecular evolution over the past few years. Read more here!
New funding and open postdoctoral positions
We are very happy that the lab now has more funds to support our work on the evolution and consequences of mutation bias, in the form of a DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Senior Fellowship to Deepa. The generous funding means that we will soon be hiring two postdoctoral fellows to join our group and work... Continue Reading →
Shivansh wins poster prize
The lab had a great showing at the 2024 NCBS Annual talks, with three exciting posters from Pratibha and Harshith (Ecological drift in the flour beetle gut microbiome), Ruchith and Shazia (Mutation bias and tradeoffs), and Shivansh (The genetic basis of adaptation in flour beetles). These are all fun new stories from the lab that... Continue Reading →
Symposium Section in the American Naturalist
In 2022, Deepa organized the ASN Vice-Presidential Symposium at the annual meeting of the Evolution societies in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The symposium featured a set of wonderful talks by five invited speakers from across the world, analysing how genetic variation shapes adaptation. The work reported in these talks is now out in the Symposium section... Continue Reading →
