TEAM
Jyotsna Kalathera
PhD Student
jyotsnak[at]iisc[dot]ac[dot}in
Research Topic
I am majorly figuring out the influence of population bottlenecks on the evolution of life-history traits. Also, interested to understand the genetic networks behind Myxococcus sporulation and germination. Another direction of research goes into understanding microbial community assembly in nature.
Education
Int. MSc. in Life sciences (2013-2018)
Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur
Research Experience
Master thesis (Dec 2017-May 2018)
PI: Mrinal Bhattacharya
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Project: Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the emergence of multiple drug resistance in P. falciparum
Summer intern / Indo-US Khorana program (May 2017 - June 2017)
PI: Nirbhay Kumar
Tulane university, LA, USA
Project: Immunological Cross-reactivity between Malarial Vaccine Target Antigen Ps25 in Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax
Summer intern / INSA-IAS summer research program(May 2016 – June 2016)
PI: Dipshikha Chakravortty
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Project: Evaluation of a mutant strain of Salmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium as a potential vaccine candidate
against Salmonella infection
Bio
Thank you for visiting here by the way!
I am a science enthusiast from let's say high school onwards, yes, a cliche sentence to begin with, and I always wanted to free myself in science and scientific thinking, which is a fact.
I thought to major in Physics, but later inclinations got me to Life Sciences. Within life sciences, I had visits at other biological disciplines but evolution with microbes became an un-resistable field to set myself in.
Hobbies : Scientific writing and reading are something I enjoy the most. Leisure times I like watching movies, wandering in our campus and clicking pictures.
A consistent announcement : Actively looking for interns to seed new ideas and pace-up the work!!