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Somnath
Chindhe
Doctoral Researcher, Physiology and Genetics
Doctoral Researcher, Department of Biology
My Research Project is part of UTU-GreDiT (Solutions for Green and Digital Transition-https://sites.utu.fi/utugredit/).

Areas of expertise

Genetics and Computational Genomics

Biography

I completed my Master's degree in Molecular and Human Genetics in India.  During my master's studies, I explored various human genetic disease mechanisms, focusing on how their susceptibilities vary among populations influenced by factors such as inbreeding, selection, and admixture. This experience deepened my interest in evolutionary genomics, with an emphasis on population-specific adaptations, while further refining my skills in genomics and bioinformatics. Engaging with numerous articles on human evolution through population and evolutionary genomics has fostered my fascination with human evolution and population genetics.

Research

In my doctoral research, I am passionate about understanding the genetic adaptation in North-Eastern Europe due to past infectious diseases and environmental changes.  In this project, I combine ancient and modern human DNA and life history trait data in a Finnish context to examine the effects of past events on human genomes in the past versus the present population.