I am thrilled and honoured to become a part of the School of Biology School of Biology, IISER-Thiruvananthapuram at IISER Thiruvananthapuram IISER Thiruvananthapuram . I extend my gratitude to everyone for their warm wishes! Looking forward to opportunities for both research and teaching that lie ahead.

Steven Strogatz, one of my scientific heroes, kindly wrote: "Systems medicine is a masterpiece. To my mind it's nothing short of revolutionary".

Does bacterial physiology affect antibiotic killing? A new high-throughput death assay shows that nutrients and stress differentially affect killing as explained by a resource allocation model that yields a simple "death law" rb.gy/j2k3rd #Microbiology #SystemsBiology

E. coli engineered to become stem cells that differentiate! We prevent take-over by mutant stem cells that only self renew - by linking differentiation to an essential function. A new way to engineer stable microbial communities. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to finally share this work! This paper is years in the making... We uncover a global network of purine and pyrimidine cross-feeding among ocean microbes and begin characterizing the forces shaping it. 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Much improved review on conformational entropy from James Fraser (A$AP J) and me. Despite the entropy loss during folding, proteins retain substantial conformational entropy as they fluctuate between conformations in their native state. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Warmly recommend, this fellowship for post docs gives you a community and great soft skills training.

Predicting microbial growth conditions from amino acid composition biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

How cool is this!

Interested in #phylogeny, #biogeography & #speciation? We are looking for a #JRF to join our team to work on soil arthropods CSIR-CCMB; more details here about the project, DEADLINE is 25th May- sites.google.com/view/jahnavijo… about the lab - sites.google.com/view/jahnavijo……Please retweet

Just did a group meeting of a PhD student in the cloud. It takes courage to say I'm stuck, confused, discouraged. This vulnerability elicited solidarity and support from the group, and a flood of new ideas and hope. It was gratifying for everyone.

Congratulations to the iGEM team of IISER TVM for winning the Best Fashion and Cosmetic Project, Best Project Promotion Video, and a Gold Medal at the Grand Jamboree held in Paris.

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We have funding for a postdoc competent in computational work for one year. Expertise and interest in microbial genetics/evolution and NGS analyses ideal. Please look at miralab.co.in and write in by 10th December to [email protected] with a CV and SOP

"IISER TVM is excited to host the 3rd edition of "New Ideas in Molecular Evolution" (NEMO3)- a national annual meeting that aims to bring together scientists bridging the gap between molecular & evolutionary biology. More details can be seen here: sites.google.com/view/nemo3iise…."

I am very excited to share that our paper led by Ayşe Nisan Erdoğan, Pouria Dasmeh, Adrian Serohijos is out Nature Communications. It touches key dynamics to understand protein evolution"Neutral Drift" and "Phenotypic Variation" during enzyme/protein evolution. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Available online - the Spotlight "Crabtree effect in yeast: a phosphate tug-of-war between fermentation and respiration" from Vijay Jayaraman and colleagues. #phosphatemetabolism #glycolysis #deubiquitinase #proteostasis authors.elsevier.com/a/1kIls3S6GfQa…

Out today! In this article I talk about evolutionary novelties in bacteria and argue for the crucial role of environment in their emergence and detection. Andreas Wagner Amitabh Joshi Raghavendra Gadagkar Sutirth Dey Yashraj Chavhan Alvaro Sanchez Lab …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Protein function often depends on protein dynamics. To design proteins that function like natural ones, how do we predict their dynamics? Hannah Wayment-Steele and I are thrilled to share the first big, experimental datasets on protein dynamics and our new model: Dyna-1! 🧵

We invite applications for the PhD in Biological Sciences at School of Biology, IISER-Thiruvananthapuram for the Vasanth 2026 semester. For further details on areas and eligibility, click the link below: admissions.iisertvm.ac.in/phd/index.php/… #PhDOpportunity #IISER IISER Thiruvananthapuram