I’m starting a special interest group with monthly seminars + discussion focused on the role of mut in evo, covering #evobio #popgen #histsci #philsci

Upcoming speakers: Peter Lind Deepa Agashe Grey Monroe, Rose Novick, Alex Klug

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Super-amazing work by Takanori Nishino, Hiromi Mukai, Minoru Moriyama and other colleagues on a novel insect-microbe symbiosis is now available as preprint
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to announce the Biodiversity Fellowships programme, supported by IFB Trust among other partners: biodiversitylab.org/biodiversity-f….
Applications are open (forms.office.com/r/rLhRT8c4wm). Please spread the word around among young students and researchers.

We are thrilled to announce this year's 5-day summer course on Phylogenetics and Experimental Evolution at IIT Bombay! We welcome participants from all fields, who are interested in learning evolution.

Click to register: forms.gle/nNsQApiEZLS83z…

Now published! We discover a novel and highly-conserved transcription factor (Cada2) that is post-translationally modified to regulate an essential response to methylation DNA damage in Caulobacter. With some cool hand-drawn artwork from Aditya Kamat (1/n)

First step in a community project to provide a uniformly assembled, annotated and searchable set of bacterial genomes, our preprint on our initial release of 1.9 million genome assemblies+taxonomic estimates. (figure compares with previous 661k dataset)
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Presenting NCBS and DBT-inStem 's Advanced Biology Lecture Series with the theme 'Funneling into Biology,' focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to biological questions. Undergraduate and Masters students are encouraged to apply. More details: ncbs.res.in/people/postdoc…

I have been writing short stories in Hindi for the last few years.

At long last, I have put some of them up on Amazon Kindle at amzn.eu/d/gB8LRck!

Looking forward to your comments and feedback. Happy reading!

Now the final edited version of my review on „Epistasis and adaptation on fitness landscapes“ is available in Annual Reviews (paywall-free via this link): annualreviews.org/eprint/S7XY5J7…

Our work investigating mutational processes in E. coli got out today in GBE: academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-ar…

At the Sixth Bangalore School on Population Genetics and Evolution at ICTS, Namratha and Sanghamitra Kumar presented their work on same sex mating and the evolution of reproductive barriers in allopatric populations, respectively.

Presented my research work on survival strategies & chemical ecology of sap sucking bugs to Prof. J. Kitano, Prof. K. Jain, Prof. Deepa Agashe & other fellow participants at 6th Bangalore School on Pop Gen & Evolution organized by ICTS. It was an amazing learning experience.

Immediate position for an MSc holder with microbiology experience to work Ashoka University
Project involves field work and tracking community AMR burden in water samples. Please email [email protected] with a CV and statement of interest by 27th February if interested.

Looking for a JRF. Experimental evolution, AMR, genomics.We plan to test the evolutionary responses to unconventional antimicrobials & elucidate their genomic basis.Position will be in Pune, duration 2 years. Pls RTSutirth Dey Deepa Agashe Amitabh Joshi Bugs&Drugs N G Prasad

Leave one spot, only one spot without blood, so I can explain to the children tomorrow what the color of the sand was like [...]

—Khaled Juma
▪︎ Palestinian poet ▪︎

FUNGUS IN SPACE!!! 🍄🚀

Equal parts cosmic horror and nature being metal, let's talk about the lichen that grew on the OUTSIDE of the International Space Station!

Get your tea and curl up, because I PROMISE you wanna hear about these fungal cosmonauts 🧑‍🚀
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Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

Our paper on how life history traits constrain the adaptation of arthropods to climatic warming (or cooling!) is out: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Remember, arthropods (especially insects) are the most abundant animals on planet earth across land and water!

We are organizing the fourth edition of the Frontier Symposium in Biology from February 2-4, 2024. Dive into compelling discussions on cutting-edge research with an exceptional lineup of speakers. Get ready for a scientific feast! conference.iisertvm.ac.in/fsbio2024/

Honored that our work was awarded the Zuckerkandl Prize by Journal of Molecular Evolution. This was a terrific effort by Postdoc Sarah B Worthan and former undergraduate Robby McCarthy! A must read for anyone who performs lab cell culture, is interested in plasticity, or collects fitness measurements!