Pleased to announce that one of the SMBE Global Symposia this year will be on the Genetics of Adaptation! On 21 Nov we plan an in-person intensive workshop at NCBS, for early-stage students from India who are interested in molecular evolution and evolutionary genetics (apply here). This will be followed by a virtual global symposium... Continue Reading →
Happy to announce the 2nd edition of our 1-week intensive school on population genetics and evolution in Feb 2024 at ICTS, co-organized with Kavita Jain from JNCASR Bangalore. If you are a student with a keen interest in population genetics but are relatively new to the topic, do consider applying (deadline 20 November 2022)! You'll... Continue Reading →
We are happy to finally announce the 1st meeting of our special topic network on synthesizing micro- and macro- evolutionary processes shaping prokaryotic genomes, supported by ESEB. The meeting will be hosted at the Milner Center for Evolution at the University of Bath, UK, from 30 May to 1 June 2022. We have a great... Continue Reading →
I am very pleased to announce the next iteration of our School on population genetics and evolution, co-organized with Kavita Jain (JNCASR) and generously hosted by ICTS Bangalore. The school will take place in a hybrid format from 17–28 Jan 2022, with covid precautions in place. The target audience is advanced PhD students and postdocs... Continue Reading →
Kavita Jain and I are pleased to announce the fourth edition of the Bangalore School on Population genetics and Evolution. As always, we have an exciting speaker lineup, and we look forward to a group of enthusiastic participants. We invite applications from PhD students and postdocs (and exceptional MSc students) from biology, computer science, physics,... Continue Reading →
We have another fun summer conference season lined up this year; as usual, most lab members have received travel awards. Come hear about our work if you happen to be at these meetings! Mrudula, Kruttika, Laasya, Saurabh, Joshua and I will be at the SMBE meeting in Yokohama, Japan, starting 8 July. We're all super... Continue Reading →
Our campus has a new outreach program under the Science and the City initiative: the BLiSc Science Cafe (BLiSc = Bangalore Life Science Cluster). I will kick off this program with a talk at MyBoTree in Kormangala, Bangalore, this coming Sunday (11 am, June 24). Come hear about the exciting world of microbes that live... Continue Reading →
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