Long-term internship at NCBS (National Centre for Biological Sciences)

Currently I’m working in the ‘Adaptation Laboratory’ under supervision of Dr. Deepa Agashe (NCBS-TIFR) in the field of bacterial genome evolution. One of my research directions is related to the coevolution of tRNA gene copy number and codon usage bias in eubacteria.

Another part of my work focuses on the evolution of tRNA content in E.coli, where we are trying  to understand evolutionary explanation of the fact that some tRNA genes are generally missing among many sequenced bacteria (this question is especially interesting considering the fact that bacterial genomes show large diversity of tRNA genes pool).