Piyush Nanda

Massive inter-animal horizontal gene transfer contributes to stress tolerance in the fungus gnat Bradysia coprophila

This study identifies extensive horizontal gene transfer in the fungus gnat Bradysia coprophila, showing these genes contribute to stress tolerance and ecological adaptation.

Translational antagonism enables bet-hedging in yeast via mitochondrial bistability

This study identifies a mitochondrial bistability mechanism in yeast that enables bet-hedging through translational antagonism between mitochondrial and cytosolic translation.

Amino acid exchangeability and surface accessibility underpin the effects of single substitutions

The paper performs a statistical meta-analysis of single amino acid substitutions using deep mutational scans to quantify physicochemical trends and derive an empirical amino acid exchangeability matrix.

Multicellular growth as a dynamic network of cells

The paper models multicellular cluster growth in budding yeast by varying parameters to show how cellular features influence cluster size and composition.

BFG-PCA: tools and resources that expand the potential for binary protein interaction discovery

BFG-PCA is a high-throughput method for discovering binary protein interactions using DHFR-PCA, showing high sensitivity and specificity across human and yeast protein pairs.