Nandita Garud

Nandita is an Assistant Professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department at UCLA. As a graduate student, Nandita worked on characterizing signatures of rapid adaptation in natural populations of Drosophila. Specificially, she developed haplotype statistics for detection and differentiation of hard and soft sweeps from population genomic data and discovered that soft sweeps dominate the strong adaptation in D. melanogaster. Nandita continues to study adaptation in natural populations and lately has been focused on bacteria in the gut microbiome. Nandita completed her postdoctoral work with Katie Pollard at Gladstone UCSF and undergraduate work with Andy Clark at Cornell. A link to her website with more details here.