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!
India Bioscience has put together a useful peer guide for early-career faculty in the life sciences, with contributions from several faculty including Deepa. Find the guide here!
As the 2023–2024 Obaid Siddiqi Chair 2023-24 at NCBS, sociologist Prof. Gita Chadha interviewed several female faculty at our institute. Listen to her discussion with Deepa on youtube, and follow up with the other episodes in the series to hear about the experiences and perspectives of these women in biology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh0_fA3WIgc&list=PL42P6prB3Bu830RFSYYvRw8CtEnvIGaaX&index=3
Deepa was interviewed for the Big Biology podcast, and the episode (#120) is now out! Listen to a free-ranging discussion about our work on mutation biases, pleiotropy, and flour beetles, with wonderful hosts Cameron Ghalambor and Art Woods (also on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). And check out the Big Biology website for a big bunch of other interesting... Continue Reading →
Bacterial genomes experience lots of mutations that result from a complex mix of DNA damage, errors made by DNA polymerase, and errors repaired or made by repair enzymes. Do these processes leave a tell-tale signature in the genome, and can we use it to infer which processes were most important? A new paper in Genome... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
We are very happy that Aakanksha Madhwal has joined the lab as a new PhD student. She has a Bachelor's degree in Microbiology from Graphic Era Deemed To Be University, Dehradun, and a Master's Degree in Biotechnology from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Microorganisms have always piqued her interest, and she is curious about how these seemingly simple... Continue Reading →
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