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Congratulations to Jaimin and Gyanesh on the publication of the 16S-23S-5S rRNA database!
Link: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.23.661116
June 25, 2025
Congratulations, Richa, on the publication of her collaborative work!
Publication link: https://journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.1128/jb.00103-25
June 11, 2025
Dr. Sharma presented a talk at the Indo-French workshop on Plant Microbiome in Lyon, France. Grateful to the Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR) and DST.
May 26, 2025
Welcoming Dikshita Tailor
Dikshita is a Master student from the Centre of Advanced Study, Department of Botany, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur
Welcome to our lab, Dikshita!
May 17, 2025
Welcoming Srishti Sharma
Srishti is a Master's student from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, School of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Lovely Professional University, Punjab
June 5, 2025
Congratulations to Niharika on the publication of her paper on AFDB extractor!
AFDB extractor is a freely available tool that allows users to download structure files from the AlphaFold database using common protein accessions.
Link: https://project.iith.ac.in/sharmaglab/alphafoldextractor/
May 6, 2025
Welcoming Keerthana
Welcoming Keerthana
Keerthana joined our lab as an M.Tech (IITH) dissertation student.
Welcome to our lab, Keerthana!
May, 2025
Welcoming Amritha
Amritha joined our lab as an M.Tech (IITH) dissertation student.
Welcome to our lab, Amritha!
May, 2025
SharmaG_omics lab won in Step it UP and Food Premier League (FLP) competition
SharmaG_omics lab won in Step it UP and Food Premier League (FLP) competition
Utkarsha and Niharika won first and third rank, respectively in Step it Up competition organised by Biotech society, Department of Biotechnology, IITH , on the occasion of World Health Day 2025.
Congratulation Utkarsha and Niharika!
April 7, 2025
All the best, Deepthi, for your future endeavors!
Deepthi from SRM University joined our lab in August 2024 and has successfully completed her dissertation work. She will soon be joining an Indiana University Indianapolis for her upcoming master's studies
March 28, 2025
5th IBSE International Symposium - MICROBIOMES: EXPLORING INVISIBLE FRONTIERS IN HEALTH, HABITAT, SPACE, AND BEYOND
Utkarsha and Shravani presented their work as a poster.
Dr. Gaurav Sharma chaired a session and presented a talk on Utkarsha's recent work.
February 19-21, 2025
Shravani won Best Poster award (worth of 70USD book of her choice)
Shravani won Best Poster award (worth of 70USD book of her choice)
Shravani won best poster award at 5th IBSE International Symposium - MICROBIOMES: EXPLORING INVISIBLE FRONTIERS IN HEALTH, HABITAT, SPACE, AND BEYOND
Congratulations Shravani !
February 21, 2025
Dr. Judith M. Noronha, Assistant Professor from the School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Goa University, visited our lab in February
February 10-14, 2025
Dr. Sharma was invited to attend the discussion meeting on Machine Learning for Molecular Sciences (ML4 Science 2025) at The Tripura Castle, Shillong, Meghalaya.
Dr. Sharma was invited to attend the discussion meeting on Machine Learning for Molecular Sciences (ML4 Science 2025) at The Tripura Castle, Shillong, Meghalaya.
He presented on "How Machine learning (ML) can be implemented in microbial evolution (ME)?
He presented on "How Machine learning (ML) can be implemented in microbial evolution (ME)?
February 6-8, 2025
Dr. Sharma presented two pedagogy talks on "phylogenetics" and one "research talk" at the one-week school on “Experimental & computational methods to study evolution” organized by Microbial Evolution Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay
February 3-7, 2025
Welcoming Balavardhan Merugu
Welcoming Balavardhan Merugu
Balavardhan joined our lab for his 3rd-year project at IIT Hyderabad, Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. He will be working on lantipeptides BGC prediction in a bacterial genome
Welcome to our lab, Balavardhan !
January, 2025
Year-end celebration to celebrate a year of milestones with @omics_lab folks and welcoming the new year 2025 with joy!
26 December, 2024
Congratulations to Utkarsha on her publication!
Our latest study, "Same strain, two genomes: Creating a consensus circular genome of Myxococcus xanthus DZ2 revealed the diversity of a large polyploid prophage region within the close-related myxobacterial strains", is now available on bioRxiv!
Publication link: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.30.630742
December 30, 2024
Congratulations to Gyanesh on his first publication!
Gyanesh published his work in "Trends in Microbiology" titled, "A unique bacterial family strikes again!" highlighting a novel myxobacterial family, Pendulisporaceae, published by Muller et al. in Chem.
Publication link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2024.10.002
December, 2024
Dr. Sharma was accompanied by seven BTech/MTech students under the Sakura Science Exchange Program 2024 to explore science and culture in the Hokkaido University, Japan!
December 8-16, 2024
Utkarsha secured the second position for a poster presentation.
Utkarsha secured second position for the poster presentation at the INBIX-ADNAT 2024, “International Archaeogenetics, Forensics & multi-omics for Human Health Breakthrough,” organized by Banaras Hindu University (BHU).
Congratulation Utkarsha!
November 28-30, 2024
Dr. Sharma presented a talk on 'Tracing the Evolutionary Threads of Myxobacterial Flagella, the Old World and New World Myxobacteria' at INBIX-ADNAT 2024, 'International Archaeogenetics, Forensics & Multi-Omics for Human Health Breakthrough,' organized by Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
November 28-30, 2024
Dr. Sharma had the opportunity to conduct two sessions for the Jawahar Navodaya Teachers Training Programme.
November 25, 2024
Congratulations to Shruti on her first publication!
Shruti, an MSc dissertation student (currently at Novartis), has published her paper in Microbiology Spectrum, titled , "Putative evolution of Myxococcus fulvus 124B02 plasmid pMF1 from a chromosomal segment in another Myxococcus species".
Publication link: https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.01206-24
November 15, 2024
Congratulations to Niharika on her first publication!
Our latest study, "Comparative genomic insight into the myxobacterial carbohydrate-degrading potential and their ecological impact", is now available on bioRxiv!
Co-authored by Niharika and Dr. Sharma.
November 11, 2024
Congratulations, Niharika, on her collaboration work!
Publication link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43630-024-00635-1
September 19, 2024
Welcoming Deepthi
Welcoming Deepthi
Deepthi from SRM University has joined our lab for her bachelor's dissertation. She will be working on microbial genomics, focusing on gene duplication.
Welcome to our lab, Deepthi !
August, 2024
Welcoming Vishvesh
Welcoming Vishvesh
Vishvesh joined our lab as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF)
Welcome to our lab, Vishvesh !
August, 2024
Welcoming Krutideepa
Krutideepa has joined as a Ph.D. student and will work on the genomics and metabolomics analysis of the Ocimum (Tulsi) plant. Her research will focus on the de novo genome assembly, functional characterization, comparative genomics analysis, and in silico detection and analysis of secondary metabolite pathways.
Welcome to our lab, Krutideepa !
July, 2024
We recently celebrated five years of @omics_lab with a retreat at Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. We celebrated the successes, failures, and teamwork through all the highs and lows.
July 27-31, 2024
Dr. Gaurav Sharma is honored to share his journey and the challenges of transitioning from a DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow to a young scientist committed to advancing research in India, in the fifth article of the "Journey of Young Investigator (JOYTI) 2024" series
Thanks @IITHyderabad @BTIITH @omics_lab, for their constant support.
July 22, 2024
Welcoming Sri Nithya
Welcoming Sri Nithya
Sri Nithya joined our lab as an M.Tech (IITH) dissertation student. She would be working on the comparative genomics of the phylum Actinomycetota, focusing on the signal transduction systems.
Welcome to our lab, Sri Nithya !
May, 2024
Welcoming Dr. Jyoti
Welcoming Dr. Jyoti
Dr. Jyoti has joined our lab in May 2024 as an Institute Post Doctoral Fellow. She will be working on the engineering of myxobacterial NRPS-PKS hybrids using bioinformatics approaches.
Welcome to our lab, Dr. Jyoti !
May, 2024
Richa secured the second position for a poster presentation.
Richa secured the second position for a poster presentation at The International Symposium on Plant Biology and Functional Genomics (ISPBFG 2024) & 15th Plant Sciences Colloquium hosted by the Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Telangana
Congratulation Richa!
March 13-15, 2024
Congratulations to Jaimin on his first publication, a commentary in the Journal of Bacteriology!
Congratulations to Jaimin on his first publication, a commentary in the Journal of Bacteriology!
The new year began with a commentary in the Journal of Bacteriology titled, 'Deoxy' to be or 'Desoxy' not to Be – a century-old tale in the history of DNA nomenclature."
The new year began with a commentary in the Journal of Bacteriology titled, 'Deoxy' to be or 'Desoxy' not to Be – a century-old tale in the history of DNA nomenclature."
Publication link: https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.00401-23
January 31, 2024
The year-end celebration to embrace our achievements and welcome 2024 with great enthusiasm!!
The year-end celebration to embrace our achievements and welcome 2024 with great enthusiasm!!
December 25, 2023
Our lab is funded with the Start-up Research Grant (SRG)
Our lab is funded with the Start-up Research Grant (SRG)
On the occasion of Teacher's day, we also received an additional happy news.
SERB, Government of India has also technically approved our SRG proposal.
September 5, 2023
Gaurav Sharma has been inducted as an IAS Associate.
Gaurav Sharma has been inducted as an IAS Associate.
Honored to be inducted as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences @IAScBng! It's an incredible honor to join this prestigious scientific community. I look forward to contributing to academy initiatives.
Thanks @IITHyderabad @BTIITH @omics_lab, for their constant support.
https://twitter.com/IITHyderabad/status/1697272862103539975
Aug 21, 2023
Gyanesh, Niharika, Shravani, and Jaimin: New PhD students
Gyanesh, Niharika, Shravani, and Jaimin: New PhD students
Four students joined our lab in the July 2023 session. They would work on diverse microbial genomics aspects.
Welcome to our lab, folks. May the DATA be with YOU.
July 14, 2023
Richa & Haneen's First paper has been accepted in "Frontiers in Plant Science".
Richa & Haneen's First paper has been accepted in "Frontiers in Plant Science".
Congratulations to Richa & Haneen (first authors) & Akash on publishing their first research paper in 'Frontiers in Plant Sciences'. Twitter post
Paper link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1139215/full
Accepted: April 3, 2023
Welcome-2023.
Welcome-2023.
Farewell-2022.
Farewell-2022.
Year-end celebration with a few past/present @omics_lab folks located in Hyderabad. Till now, 23 wonderful people have worked with us & it feels great seeing them occasionally. We missed others; they might be getting hiccups.
Merry Christmas.
Happy New Year 2023!
Onwards & upwards!
December 25, 2022
Dr. Sharma has joined "IIT Hyderabad" as an Assistant professor.
Dr. Sharma has joined "IIT Hyderabad" as an Assistant professor.
Our lab is shifting to Hyderabad. Thank you, IBAB Bengaluru, for a great start.
Our lab is shifting to Hyderabad. Thank you, IBAB Bengaluru, for a great start.
September 29, 2022
AMI Young Scientist Award-2021
AMI Young Scientist Award-2021
Gaurav Sharma has been awarded the "AMI Young Scientist Award-2021 (Environmental Microbiology)" by the Association of Microbiologists of India.
September 22, 2022
Welcoming Haneen
Welcoming Haneen
Haneen has joined our lab as the third Ph.D. student. She would work on medicinal plant metagenomics, understanding their associated microbiota, physiology, and secondary metabolite potential.
Good luck with everything, Haneen.
April 31, 2022
Welcoming Riya, AAqib, Shruti, Aayushi, and Arpita
Welcoming Riya, AAqib, Shruti, Aayushi, and Arpita
Five IBAB students have joined our lab as dissertation students. They will work on diverse microbial genomics projects and learn new ways of computational biology.
Good luck with everything, folks.
January 1, 2022
Our paper has been accepted in "NATURE Biotechnology."
Our paper has been accepted in "NATURE Biotechnology."
Our short correspondence on SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance is now out in Nature Biotechnology. Here, we identified the time lag from strain Collection to genome Submission at GISAID (CSTlag) for >1.7M SARS-CoV-2 strains.
Publication Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-01040-0
August 10, 2021
Welcoming Richa
Welcoming Richa
Richa has joined our lab as the second Ph.D. student. She would work on medicinal plant genomics with a focus on understanding their physiology and secondary metabolites.
Welcome to our lab, Richa. Good luck.
January 4, 2021
Welcoming Utkarsha
Welcoming Utkarsha
Utkarsha has joined as the FIRST Ph.D. student in our lab. She would work with myxobacterial comparative genomics focused on their genome size and evolution.
Welcome to our lab, Utkarsha. Good luck.
March 8, 2021
Our work on the largest bacterial genome is now published in "BMC GENOMICS".
Our work on the largest bacterial genome is now published in "BMC GENOMICS".
A part of my Ph.D. work has been now published. In this work, we sequenced, assembled, and annotated a 16.04 Mbp circular genome of Minicystis rosea DSM 24000T, the largest bacterial genome sequenced to date along with its genome characterization, and further emphasized the putative reasons for its genome expansion.
September 13, 2021
Welcome Niharika, Shruti, Kishan, & Kevin
Welcome Niharika, Shruti, Kishan, & Kevin
Welcoming @official_ibab MSc students (Niharika, @ShruSinha, and @kalia_kishan) along with Kevin (an external student from Sardar Patel University, Anand, Gujarat). They will work on their dissertation projects with us @omics_lab for six months. I hope you will have a good learning experience.
May the DATA be with YOU.
January 7, 2021
Role of CglB protein in Myxobacterial adventurous gliding motility
Role of CglB protein in Myxobacterial adventurous gliding motility
Another fruitful multi-institutional collaboration work with @IslaMyxoLab @inrsciences & Tam Mignot @lcb_officiel is out in @biorxivpreprint. #Myxococcus
@ucdavis @ucdavisbiology @IndiaDST @omics_lab
Updated: July 22, 2020
SARS-CoV-2 Genomics: vARIANT aNALYSIS
SARS-CoV-2 Genomics: vARIANT aNALYSIS
Our work on 864 Indian SARS-CoV-2 genomes (distributed month-wise) is now available at bioRxiv where we have identified 30 variants showing contrasting mutational probabilities within a span of four months. We are suggesting that 25 of them are propagating with time whereas 5 are terminating.
Updated: July 14, 2020
Welcoming Animesh
Welcoming Animesh
Animesh joined as a Project Intern in our lab. He would be focused on Phage Genomic studies.
Welcome to our lab, Animesh. Good luck.
July 2, 2020
Our paper on SARS-CoV-2 Genomics: diversity & evolution is published in PeerJ
Our paper on SARS-CoV-2 Genomics: diversity & evolution is published in PeerJ
When the lockdown started in Late March, I started teaching the "Advanced Bioinformatics" course to @official_ibab MSc II semester students using recently sequenced SARS-CoV-2 genomes. Two months of teaching and extensive research work leads to this publication @thePeerJ. I am always enthusiastic for such "teaching-based Research" with students.
Publication link: https://peerj.com/articles/9576/
Accepted: July 1, 2020
BPS Paper is published in PLOS BIOLOGY.
BPS Paper is published in PLOS BIOLOGY.
Finally, the first collaborative project with @IslaMyxoLab, Tâm Mignot, and @EmiliaMauriello is out in @PLOSBiology. Here we have identified the functional and evolutionary aspects of a novel biosurfactant polysaccharide (BPS) in Myxococcus xanthus.
"Modulation of bacterial multicellularity via spatio-specific polysaccharide secretion" https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000728
June 10, 2020
Welcoming Sneha
Welcoming Sneha
Sneha joined as a Project Assistant jointly in our Lab, BioIT Centre, and Dr. Shruthi Vembar's Lab. In our lab, her focus would be on Microbial Genomics and Microbiome studies.
Welcome to our lab, Sneha. Good luck.
March 23, 2020
New Collaboration paper in MRA
New Collaboration paper in MRA
Draft Genome Sequence of Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus NCT7M, Obtained from the Microbiome of a Marine Copepod
Welcome Shradha
Welcome Shradha
Shradha joined SharmaG_omics Lab as a Project intern. Welcome to our lab. She will learn the basic of genomics first followed by doing Myxobacterial genomics.
Feb 11, 2020
Welcome Drishti and Azra
Welcome Drishti and Azra
Our IBAB M.Sc. students, Drishti and Azra, joined SharmaG_omics Lab to do their Master's dissertation. Welcome to our group, guys. We are looking forward to doing exciting work with you.
Drishti will be involved in Myxobacterial genomics whereas Azra will study Myxobacterial transcriptomics.
Jan 5, 2020
Publications during 2019
Publications during 2019
We wish you Happy New Year 2020. We have published four manuscripts (2 as first co-author and 2 as co-author) during 2019 in Genomics, Microbiol Resource Announcement, and BMC Microbiology journals.
Khatri I*, Sharma G*, Subramanian S. Composite genome sequence of Bacillus clausii, a probiotic commercially available as Enterogermina®, and insights into its probiotic properties. BMC Microbiol. 2019 Dec 30;19(1):307. doi: 10.1186/s12866-019-1680-7. PubMed PMID: 31888501. * Equal authorship
Parales RE, Sharma G, Zhang X, Subuyuj GA, Langner JT, Wright ME, Ditty JL, Dawson SC. Draft Genome Sequence of the Caffeine-Degrading Methylotroph Methylorubrum populi Pinkel. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Nov 21;8(47). doi: 10.1128/MRA.01300-19. PubMed PMID: 31753954; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6872896.
Nuttall R, Sharma G, Moisander PH. Draft Genome Sequence of Vibrio cyclitrophicus NCT10V, Cultivated from the Microbiome of a Marine Copepod. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Oct 31;8(44). doi: 10.1128/MRA.01208-19. PubMed PMID: 31672750.
Whitfield DL*, Sharma G*, Smaldone GT, Singer M. Peripheral rods: a specialized developmental cell type in Myxococcus xanthus. Genomics. 2019 Oct 9;. doi: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2019.09.008. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31605730. * Equal authorship
Looking forward to a wonderful year ahead 2020.
May the Data be with you.
Welcome, Vaishnavi and Shenu
Welcome, Vaishnavi and Shenu
Vaishnavi and Shenu Joined our Lab as pioneer members. Special applause for them.
They will work as project assistants. We welcome both of you to our group.
Nov 1, 2019
I am very excited to have joined the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bengaluru, as a DST-INSPIRE Faculty. My lab will be focused on understanding diverse aspects of microbial genomics & plant microbiome.
My institutional Web page can be accessed from here.
https://www.ibab.ac.in/research/gaurav-sharma/
Aug 1, 2019
NEWS Till August 1, 2019
NEWS Till August 1, 2019
Awarded UCDavis PSA Travel Award — July 4, 2019
Attended EMBO Course: Bioinformatics & genome analyses — July 1, 2019
Awarded DST-INSPIRE FACULTY Award — Feb 2, 2019
Published first short Fiction story — jan 28, 2019
Attended West Coast Bacterial Physiologists — Dec 16, 2018
Attended ICMR-2019 in Pune, India — Nov 23, 2018
Second Corresponding Author Paper Accepted In BMC Genomics — Oct 19, 2018
Our manuscript accepted in 'Frontiers in Microbiology' — Jun 29, 2018
Collaborative work preprint in 'Cell' Journal — Jun 27, 2018
ASM Postdoctoral Travel Award — Jun 18, 2018
ASM Microbes 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia — Jun 18, 2018
Outstanding reviewer in 'Genomics Data' Journal — May 10, 2018
Recognized reviewer in 'Genomics Data' Journal — May 10, 2018
Recognized reviewer in 'Genomics' Journal — May 10, 2018
Selected for ASM Student and Postdoctoral Travel Award — Mar 28, 2018
Cover Page from my publication is out. — Jan 25, 2018
"Myxobacterial chemosensory systems" manuscript is now online — Nov 21, 2017
Cover page accepted in Journal of Bacteriology — Nov 10, 2017
Career Development workshop — Nov 8, 2017
Awarded Science Communication Fellowship — Nov 6, 2017
Poster presentation in "MicroBOOmes" — Oct 30, 2017
Chemosensory systems manuscript accepted in JBac — Oct 30, 2017
Myxo Meeting 2017 — Jun 21, 2017
Archangium manuscript is online now — Apr 7, 2017
Archangium manuscript accepted in GBE — Apr 4, 2017
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