Our group has an opening to host a student for a 6-month paid internship, starting in January 2026. If you are a 2nd-year Master's or 3rd/4th-year Bachelor's student & interested in learning evolution - please apply! Details at: https://ircc.iitb.ac.in/IRCC-Webpage/IITBInternship/
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?
Congratulations to Supreet and Pavithra for winning the R. Kumar Award for Innovative Modeling in Chemical Engineering! - Aug 2025
Supreet joins the Editorial Board of BMC Ecology & Evolution - Jul 2025
Congratulations to Pavithra on winning the Smt. Mangatayaru Ph.D. Thesis Award! - Jul 2025
Namratha successfully defended her Ph.D thesis. Congratulations! - Jul 2025
Our latest work on the role of resource packaging on adaptation is now published in npj Systems Biology & Applications. Link - Jul 2025
Supreet and Lon Chubiz (U. of Missouri) are guest editing an issue on Evolutionary Systems Biology for npj Systems Biology & Applications. Papers are invited from researchers in the area—more details here!
Our work is funded by