Sona John

Sona is a post-doctoral fellow (funded by the DFG SPP 1590 and SPP 1819) working on mathematics of host-parasite ceovolution models. She did her PhD in India with Prof. K. Jain.

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Education:

2011-2016: PhD, Theoretical Sciences Unit, J.N.C.A.S.R, Bangalore, India.

2007-2009: Master of Science (Physics), C.M.S College, Kottayam, Kerala, India.

2004-2007: Bachelor of Science (Physics), C.M.S College, Kottayam, Kerala, India.

Professional experience:

Oct 2016-Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, Technische Universität München

2011-2016: PhD, Theoretical Sciences Unit, J.N.C.A.S.R, with Prof. Kavita Jain

10-11/2010: Junior Research Fellow at IITChennai with Dr. Manoj Gopalakrisnan

Publications

Jain K. and S. John. Deterministic evolution of an asexual population under the action of beneficial and deleterious mutations on additive fitness landscapes. Theoretical Population Biology (2016),112,117125.

John* S. and S. Seetharaman*. Exploiting the adaptation dynamics to predict the distribution of beneficial fitness effects  (2016), PLoS One, 11(3):e0151795. (*equal contribution).

John S. and K. Jain. Effect of drift, selection and recombination on the equilibrium frequency of deleterious mutations. Journal of Theoretical Biology (2015), 365, 238246.