In our latest work, we explore epistasis on the 9-site intragenic landscape of folA reported by Wagner and co-workers. We report three important findings 👇 (1/n)

PhDs would be cooler if instead of "Dr", you earned a more personalized title - Janet the Broke, Toby the Anxious, John the Caffeinated, etc.

Excited to talk about my research on Unraveling diverse paths of efflux based antimicrobial resistance at 3:30pm! 🦠 Do join in for an interesting line up of talks at PhD cafe today! ✨

HGT is ubiquitous. However, not all horizontally transferred genes are functional in the new host. What is the minimum number of mutations that would make a non-functional gene functional in the new host? (1/3)

How sensitive are evolving populations to how food is packaged for them? In this work led by neetika ahlawat, we show that yeast populations evolving in subtly different environments show variable adaptive trajectories. (1/n)

Looking forward to this opportunity! Do tune in :)

It looks like I never posted anything (*but see below) on what are probably the most surprising results my lab obtained so far. Anyway, this work—led by an outstanding former PhD student Sarah Ardell in collaboration with Milo Johnson—is now published: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Deadline extended to 14 Oct. If you are interested in learning evolution & understanding its implications on health & disease, apply at: ircc.iitb.ac.in/IRCC-Webpage/I… Do theory or expts - as per interest. Only prerequisite is a strong interest in learning evolution!

This work is now out in Journal of Evolutionary Biology! Link to the article - doi.org/10.1093/jeb/vo…

💥One-week school IIT Bombay on Experimental & Computational Methods in Evolution. Financial support available! Last date to apply: 15 Dec 2024 More details 👇: @DeepaAgashe Gaurav Sharma, Ph.D. Saket Choudhary Supreet Saini

Game theory has used payoff matrices to represent interactions between organisms. Using empirical data, we show how evolution shapes payoff matrices depending on resources present in the environment Microbial Evolution Lab, Dept. of ChE, IIT Bombay @supreetsaini13 Pavithra Venkataraman Namratha shekar ow.ly/ueVW50U39VW

First day of our school on evolution IIT Bombay ! @supreetsaini13 & Gaurav Sharma, Ph.D. discussing fundamentals of evolution, and phylogenetics. See tomorrow's schedule at sites.google.com/view/esmlab/ev… All interested are welcome to attend!

Our latest work in @elife: Variations and predictability of epistasis on an intragenic fitness landscape doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… Congratulations Sarvesh Baheti (BTech student Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur) Namratha!

Why do mutations exhibit predictable patterns of mutation effects? In our latest work, we develop a toy model of bacterial growth to understand the mechanistic basis of global epistasis. We would love to hear feedback!

It has been a pleasure to be a part of this group - thank you for everything! 😀

Resource presentation shapes evolution! In our latest work, we show that chemically identical nutrients can drive different evolutionary responses, just based on how they're presented. Sounds wild? We explain 👇 (1/6)

Thank you! Grateful for the mentorship and support I received during my PhD. 😊

𝘾𝙖𝙣 𝙨𝙪𝙗𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙫𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙨? New research by IIT Bombay shows how microbes diverge when fed identical sugars packaged differently. Read: researchmatters.in/news/predictin… to dive deeper into

#IITBombay researchers use microbes to unlock nature’s hidden rules ✍🏼 Purnnima Sah trib.al/UZxcxmZ

The book assumes no background knowledge and is accessible to anyone with a passion for learning evolution. Now available for preorder - routledge.com/Fundamentals-o… #evolution #microbiology #books