Education
Bio
Duhita is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the lab of Prof. Michael Manhart working on the effect of cross-feeding interactions on mutation effects, especially as mediated by spatial structure, in laboratory systems. She received a PhD in July 2022 from Monash University, studying the evolution of bacteriophages (viral parasites of bacteria) in the context of microbial community diversity and structure, supervised by Prof. Mike McDonald and Prof. Jeremy Barr.
Before joining CABM, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford with Prof. Tim Barraclough and Prof. Kayla King, examining the impacts of environmental stress (i.e., pH) on coevolutionary interactions within the wild bacterial communities.
Research Focus
2021 Faculty of Science Graduate Research Completion Award, Monash University
2020 Australasian Evolution Society 2020 Student Research Award – Prize (500 AUD) for recognition of a single, significant research publication in evolutionary biology
2017 Faculty of Science Dean’s International postgraduate research scholarship
2013 MSc awarded with high honors (4th Rank), Pune University