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!
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 →
Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Fellowship
I am very happy to say that for the next 5 years (beginning January 2018), a large part of our work will be generously funded by a Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship Award. As part of the grant, I have an open postdoctoral position for a microbiologist or an entomologist who is interested in... Continue Reading →
Open postdoctoral position
I am recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to analyze bacterial communities associated with flour beetles. The postdoctoral fellow will work with a team of researchers towards the following goals: Quantify the repeatability of ecological and evolutionary changes in the gut microbiome of an insect adapting to a new diet Determine the metabolic and genetic basis of... Continue Reading →
Laasya awarded a Wellcome Trust-DBT Early career fellowship
Congratulations to Laasya for getting the (very competitive) fellowship! The award will support her work on the potential adaptive consequences of altered initiator tRNA levels in bacteria. We're excited about the project and can't wait to see what Laasya discovers!
ICGEB research grant
We got another grant! The International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology will fund part of Kruttika's thesis project to analyze butterfly gut microbial communities. The three-year grant will begin from Jan 2015.
CSIR Research grant
I'm pleased to say that part of our work on tRNA evolution will be funded by a two-year research grant from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
