Dr. Mahul Chakraborty is a Postdoctoral Scholar working in the lab of J. J. Emerson, in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Mahul’s primary interest is the genetics of adaptation, studying how new biological functions evolve at the molecular level and what evolutionary forces facilitate origin of such functions. He uses genomic approaches to address these questions and, when necessary, he focuses on the evolution of single gene or mutation.
Mahul received his Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Rochester, where he researched about the evolutionary significance of a mutation that helps fruit flies breed in presence of ethanol-rich food but becomes harmful when ethanol is absent.