> Hi Deepa, > > Welcome, and good to see you unlurked. > > Do say more about your work here? I guess you work with Vijay at NCBS? > > Yes, I am setting up my lab at NCBS.
For my research I use populations of bacteria or beetles that evolve in the lab under various conditions. I sometimes manipulate their genes to try and retrace evolutionary steps or test predictions about future evolution. I'm interested in how species adapt to different habitats, and how ecological factors influence evolution. Also, as we accumulate complete genome sequences of various species, a number of really cool patterns have emerged. For instance, there is large variation in bacterial DNA composition- which of the four nucleotides A, T, G and C are used more often- and we're not quite sure why. I am interested in how such genomic patterns evolve, so I will soon be setting up experiments to alter some of these genomic patterns in some pet lab bacteria and see what happens. > Oh, and I will raise my hand to the April 14 silkmeet. > > Excellent. The both of you? > > Nope, just me (my other half will be out of town). Deepa
