Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines
National Centre for Biological Sciences
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
GKVK Campus, Bellary Road
Bangalore-560065
India
Phone: +91-9075010640
Email: shrutim@ncbs.res.in
About me
About me
I am an independent Campus Fellow at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India. Before joining NCBS, I worked as a CSIR-Quick Hire Fellow at National Institute of Oceanography, Goa. I did my PhD from Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris under the supervision of Dr. Chris Bowler. During my PhD, I worked on biogeographical distribution of marine diatom communities collected during the Tara Oceans expedition using high throughput -omics data sets. My doctoral experience and a quest to unfold various ecological questions cemented the foundation for my research at NCBS.
Research interests: Ecoinformatics, Environmental genomics, DNA metabarcoding, Marine microbial diversity, Blue Biotechnology
Planktons are a vital part of the Earth's life support system, providing half of the oxygen generated each year on Earth by photosynthesis and lying at the base of marine food chains on which all other life in the ocean depends. Despite that drawing, a global picture of their biodiversity, community structure and ecological determinants remains a grand challenge. As a computational biologist involved in ecological research, the possibility that interests me, and that is the central topic of my study, is to understand their unexpected biodiversity. Presently, I am working on community structure and assembly of major protistan lineages, dominating the world oceans, by integrating genomics and environmental data.
Alongside this project, I am also interested in investigating the microbial eukaryotic community structure in the oligotrophic and oxygen-depleted zones in the Arabian Sea (AS) and Bay of Bengal (BoB) using metagenomic analysis. There are a lot of mysteries about the OMZs - and particularly the BoB and AS OMZs, which differ from the Eastern Upwelling Margins.
Recently, I joined National Advisory Board Committee of Marine Ecology Researchers Club (MERC) and Citizen Marine Science Program (CMSP) at Centre for Climate Change Studies (CCCS), Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Our main goal is to build a network of action-oriented researchers to discuss topics related to India’s coastal and marine ecosystems, their functional ecology and associated biodiversity conservation.
More details can be found on my LinkedIn profile.
Publications
1. Lewitus E, Bittner L, Malviya S, Bowler C, Morlon H (2018) A history of the diversification dynamics of marine diatoms. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2(11):1715-1723.
2. Ser-Giacomi E, Zinger L*, Malviya S*, de Vargas C, Karsenti E, Bowler C, de Monte S (2018) Ubiquitous abundance distribution of non-dominant plankton across the world’s ocean. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 1243-1249.*Authors contributed equally to the work.
3. Flegontova O, Flegontov P, Malviya S, Poulain J, de Vargas C, Bowler C, Lukeš J, Horák A (2018) Neobodonids are dominant kinetoplastids in the global ocean. Environmental Microbiology20(2):878-889.
4. Leblanc K et al. (2018) Nanoplanktonic diatoms are globally overlooked but play a role in spring blooms and carbon export. Nature Communications 9: 953.
5. O Flegontova*, P Flegontov*, S Malviya*, S Audic, P Wincker, C de Vargas, C Bowler, J Lukeš, A Horák (2016) Extreme diversity of diplonemid eukaryotes in the ocean. Current Biology26: 3060–3065. *Authors contributed equally to the work.
6. J Lukeš et al. (2016) Diplonemids-new kids on the block.Protistology10(2): 42-43.
7. O Flegontova et al. (2016) Diversity and abundance of kinetoplastids in the world ocean. Protistology10(2): 18-19.
8. Bicak M et al. (2016) The Ocean Sampling Day and analysis consortium. Rapp Comm int Mer Médit 41: 136.
9. Malviya S et al. (2016) Insights into global diatom distribution and diversity in the world's ocean. PNAS 113(11): E1516-25.
10. Fortunato AE et al. (2016) Diatom phytochromes reveal the existence of far-red light-based sensing in the ocean. The Plant Cell28(3):616-28.
11. Guidi et al. (2016) Plankton networks driving carbon export in the global ocean. Nature532(7600):465-70.
12. Villar et al. (2015) Environmental characteristics of Agulhas rings affect inter-ocean plankton transport. Science348(6237):1261447.
13. de Vargas et al. (2015) Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit global ocean. Science348(6237):1261605.
14. Singh A, Mishra S, Raghav D, Sharma AS, Sharma V (2008) Insilicomethod for the identification of Mycobacterialsp. potential drug targets. ICCES, Tech Science Press, USA, 6(2):119-123.
15. Singh A, Sharma AS, Mishra S, Sharma A, Shasany AK (2005) In silico mining and classification of monoterpene synthase genes. ISBN 0-9717880-0-6, Proceedings of ICCES, Tech Science Press, 1787-1791.
PhD Thesis
Malviya S. Global Diatom Biodiversity: An Assessment Using Metabarcoding Approach. Ecology, environment. Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2015.