Broadly speaking, we seek to understand how the life-history of organisms and demographic parameters of populations interact with various environmental aspects on both short (i.e. ecological) and long (i.e. evolutionary) timescales. In simpler words, we study the ecology and evolution of populations. One major feature of our work has been a close juxtaposition of numerical simulations and laboratory experiments for many of the questions that we have tackled. This allows us to not only generate our own testable predictions, but also to investigate the generalizability of our empirical results. The other feature of our work is the use of an wide-array of genomic, biochemical, physiological and behavioural techniques to understand how organisms evolve.
Currently, there are four broad themes of research in the lab:
Ecology and evolution of dispersal
Effects of fluctuating environments and population size on microbial evolution
Controlling unstable dynamics
Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
A slightly more elaborate description of some of our insights in each of these areas can be found on the research page.