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PhD In Evolutionary Biology

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Integrated BS-MS in Bioinformatics

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune

Bioinformatician

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge

Cell-type specificity of mitochondrial dysfunction

• Analyzing data from diverse sequencing technologies to identify cell-type specific mitochondrial dysfunction

Research Fellow

University College London

Genetic basis of sexual antagonism

• Designed experimental evolution study to identify sexually antagonistic genetic variants
• Developed analytical pipelines to simulate and analyze population genetic data
• Built Nextflow pipeline for processing and analyzing Pool-Seq data

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Coevolution between the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes

• Characterized the impact of a mito-nuclear incompatibility on male sterility
• Developed integrative pipeline for sequence, structure and phylogenetic characterization of mitochondrial disease-causing mutations
• Performed phylogenetic analysis to identify coevolutionary patterns in mammlian mitochondrial and nuclear genomes

Masters Thesis Researcher

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune

PIZSA: Protein Interaction Z-Score Assessment

• Developed a novel scoring function for the prediction of protein-protein interactions
• Implemented the method as a web-server for public use

Multilevel Selection on Mitochondrial Genomes

Current Opinion in Genetics & Development

Review article on the evolutoinary dynamics of mitochondrial genomes across multiple levels of biological organization.

A Knowledge-Based Scoring Function to Assess Quaternary Associations of Proteins

Bioinformatics

Describes a novel scoring function for the prediction of protein-protein interactions.

Temperature-Sensitive Reproduction and the Physiological and Evolutionary Potential for Mother's Curse

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Investigates the impact of deleterious mito-nuclear interactions on the temperature sensitivity of male reproduction.

Protein Interaction Z Score Assessment (PIZSA): An Empirical Scoring Scheme for Evaluation of Protein-Protein Interactions

Nucleic Acids Research

Describes a novel scoring function for the prediction of protein-protein interactions implemented as a web-server for public use.

UNVEILing Connections between Genotype, Phenotype, and Fitness in Natural Populations

Molecular Ecology

Review article outlining the latest developments in the field of evolutionary genetics presented at the UNVEIL conference.

Quantum Computing

Quantum computing is the use of quantum-mechanical phenomena such as superposition and entanglement to perform computation. Computers that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers.

• Quantum Teleportation
• Quantum Cryptography