I am an experimental molecular microbiologist, and my primary interest is to understand the biology of bacteriophages that exist from the bathypelagic zone of the ocean to the GI tract of humans.

I obtained my PhD funded by the Department of Science and Technology of India, INSPIRE fellowship, to investigate an essential gene called racR of E.coli K12 from a cryptic prophage. I showed that the essentiality of this gene is attributed to its repressive role of adjacent toxins in the same prophage named ydaS and ydaT.

During my time as a postdoc at the University of Liverpool, I experimented with unravelling the role of bacteriophages in one of the significant epidemic strains of polylysogenic Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the Liverpool Epidemic Strain (LESB58). I showed that prophages significantly alter their host.

At the Quadram Institute, I investigate how phages affect the microbial communities in the gut.