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Introduced high school students to the basics of synthetic biology and the iGEM competition, sharing insights into student-led research and opportunities in bioengineering. The session aimed to spark curiosity in the life sciences and highlight how students can engage with real-world challenges through science. Read more
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Moderated a discussion on Health & Medical Data Privacy, framed around the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure (Goal 9) and Good Health and Well-Being (Goal 3). The session was part of the iGEM India BioSummit 2020 and brought together young researchers and practitioners to explore ethical and regulatory perspectives in health data management. Read more
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Participated in a workshop exploring challenges and opportunities in North–South research collaboration. Discussions focused on identifying barriers to equitable partnerships and co-developing strategies to address them. I contributed to sessions on power dynamics, knowledge production, and capacity building in global research networks. Read more
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Hosted the Nucleate booth at the Swisstech Convention Center, pitching the Activator program to potential cohort applicants and expanding our expert/mentor network. Read more
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Overview of involvement in peer review, community standards, and academic service. See more… Read more
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Honeybees serve as a powerful model for studying gut microbiota evolution in the context of host ecology and evolutionary history. Unlike the highly diverse and variable microbiomes of humans, primates, or mice, honeybees harbor a small, conserved set of gut microbes shaped by well-documented ecological and evolutionary forces. This makes them a tractable system for understanding how gut microbiota are distributed and evolve across hosts. Read more
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As a Master’s student eager to work on cutting-edge technologies, I chose to focus my thesis on gut microbiome research using Nanopore sequencing—an emerging platform that excited me deeply. Read more
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As an undergraduate student, I was excited to explore emerging technologies for studying the gut microbiome and joined a project focused on gut metaproteomics—the large-scale study of microbial proteins in the gut. Read more
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In 2016, I co-initiated the first iGEM team at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. The iGEM competition (International Genetically Engineered Machines) is a global synthetic biology event that brings together student teams to design and build biological systems using standardized genetic parts. Read more
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Gut microbial communities often differ at the strain level even among closely related individuals, but the ecological mechanisms driving this variation are not well understood. One potential driver is priority effects—differences in the timing or order of microbial colonization—which can lead to lasting differences in community structure even under similar environmental conditions. Read more
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Little is known about the gut microbiome of wild honeybees. Taking advantage of a large collection of wild honeybees of various subspecies from across Africa, painstakingly put together by our collaborators, we are investigating the differences in the gut microbiome of wild and managed honeybees. We are using shotgun metagenomics to resolve strain-level differences in the gut bacterial community and are currently analyzing the data to identify bacterial strains and species that are found in wild and managed honeybees and investigating their distribution across colonies of different subspecies. Read more