Research Interests

Piya is a team member of the DOE BRaVE-funded Phage Foundry project for systematic characterization of phages and phage-tail like bacteriocins as a powerful countermeasure to tackle the antimicrobial resistance pandemic. He is currently interested in identifying factors that modulate interactions between phages and pathogenic bacteria so that machine learning tools can be employed to predict interaction between novel phages and their bacterial hosts. He is applying CRISPR and Dubseq technologies to study how genes affect fitness in the context of phage infection.

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