I am 'Excellence by Choice' Postdoc in Peter Lind's group in the Dept of Molecular Biology and Eric Libby's group at IceLab. My research is on mathematical modelling of microbial gene regulation.
I am an 'EC' Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Molecular Biology at Umeå University, Sweden, working in Peter Lind lab and Eric Libby lab. I completed my Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Calcutta. I then got a PhD in Mathematical Evolutionary Biology with Supratim Sengupta at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, where I showed a plausible pathway for the emergence of primitive cells on the prebiotic Earth.
Currently I am working on bacterial adaptation under stressful environments like antibiotics. Bacterial populations exposed to stress can accumulate mutations, resulting in possible adaptation towards a phenotype that can counter the stress. However, such mutations are mainly loss-of-function mutations that can lower their fitness. Therefore, how bacterial populations maintain their basic gene regulation under stressful conditions is a crucial question. In collaboration with Eric Libby and Peter Lind, I aim to find answer to this question by developing mathematical models and carrying out computer simulations, that are informed by experimental data.