Hi! I am Balan. I am an Assistant Professor at the Mahindra University. I did my Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Arlington in Dr. Jeff Demuth’s Lab and my post doc from the University of Idaho in Dr. Adam Jones’s Lab. As an evolutionary/computational biologist I am currently working on two broad topics:

• understanding the evolutionary origins and implications of sex chromosomes in syngnathid (pipefish and seahorse) fishes.
• Predicting and simulating mutations that are more likely to cause antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens using evolutionary hypotheses.