We are looking to recruit a Postdoctoral Fellow with a start date of February or March 2025. The position is for a minimum of 2 years (extendable for up to 4 years), supported by an ongoing grant from the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance to study the evolutionary effects of mutation bias. Salary and benefits will... Continue Reading →
Lab at NCBS Open day
NCBS had an Open day in September this year, where the campus opened to visitors, and several labs put up posters, demos, games and other activities for children and members of the public. The lab put up a stall showcasing activities based on our work, and it was a hit! Featured: a beautiful Mandala highlighting... Continue Reading →
Welcome Swastika!
We are pleased to welcome Swastika Issar as a Postdoctoral fellow. Swastika completed her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and in the coming months she will analyze population dynamics data from laboratory experimental evolution studies. Swastika worked as a project assistant with us several years ago, and we are happy that she is back... 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!
Young Investigator 101 by India Bioscience
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!
Gender in/of science: A conversation
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
We are on the Big Biology podcast!
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 →
Mutational signatures in wild E coli
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 →
