Welcome to the Microbial Evolution Lab in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay! 

We are a group of biology enthusiasts from diverse backgrounds working in the broad area of evolution. Specifically, we are curious about answering questions related to speciation, adaptation, horizontal gene transfer, and gene duplication & diversification. We use theory and perform experiments using S. cerevisiae to help understand evolutionary processes. 

Visit our research page to know more about the problems we are currently working on. 

What's new?

• Dr. Neetika Ahlawat joins our group as a DBT/Wellcome (India Alliance) Early Career Fellow.  

• Ecological disruptive selection acting on quantitative loci can drive sympatric speciation - published in npj Systems Biology and Applications

• Increased privatization of a public resource leads to spread of cooperation in a microbial population - published in Microbiology Spectrum.

• Allopatric evolution of S. cerevisiae leads to the rapid development of pre-zygotic barriers - published in Microbiology Spectrum.