Saurabh Pophaly

Saurabh is a PhD student from India with a degree in Biological sciences and Bioengineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. After dealing with NGS data for human applications in a company in India, he decided to work on genome evolution in maize. He was studying the genetic causes and consequences of domestication. Saurabh has submitted his thesis in November 2016 and will work at LMU Munich in the group of Prof. Jochen Wolf.

 

Publications - Awards:

Unterseer S., Pophaly S.D., Peis R., Westermeier P., Mayer M., Seidel M.A., Haberer G., Mayer K. F. X., Ordas B., Pausch H., A. Tellier, Bauer E., and C-C. Schön
2016, A comprehensive study of the genomic differentiation between temperate Dent and Flint maize, Genome Biology. 17: 137.

Pophaly S. D. and A. Tellier,
2015, Population level purifying selection and geneexpression shape subgenome evolution in maize
Mol. Biol. Evol. 32(12): 3226-3235