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!
NCBS Annual Talks 2015
Our campus annual talks just finished, and many of us from the lab presented our work. It was a hectic but fun few days. Here are some pictures of lab people with their posters.
Congratulations, Arun!
A few months ago Arun turned in his Master's thesis to Bangalore University. At long last, he's received his Master's degree and has done really well. For his thesis project, Arun quantified the competitive ability of different Tribolium castaneum populations as well as their ability to resist bacterial pathogens. Arun continues to work on these... Continue Reading →
Lab trip 2014
We just returned from a lab trip to Gudalur-Mudumalai-Edakkal, which was great fun. Here are some pictures!
DST INSPIRE Faculty Award
Work on tRNA genes and synonymous codons in our lab will be supported by the Department of Science and Technology's INSPIRE Faculty award for the next five years.
Mihir Umarani joins the lab
Mihir recently finished his Integrated Master's degree from IISER Pune, where he worked with Deepak Barua to quantify variation in Impatiens plant species growing on rocky outcrops. He joins us as a Junior research fellow with a CSIR Fellowship, and is interested in insect-microbe interactions. Welcome, Mihir!
Aparna Agarwal joins the lab
Aparna, who did a rotation with us earlier, has decided to join the lab as a PhD student. Welcome Aparna!
People flux
It is summer- time for change! We recently said goodbye to Shreyasi, who will join Rice University as a PhD student this Fall. We will soon have interns joining us for the summer: Anshul (who is already here and developing into an expert beetle handler), Jayjit, Agrim, Varada, Aparnna and finally, Vedant. We look forward... Continue Reading →
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