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Microbial Ecology | Evolutionary Biology | Researcher | Freelance Writing & Analysis in R

Profile Summary

I am a microbiology researcher with hands-on experience with experiment ideation, data collection and curation and downstream analysis using R, Python and bioinformatics tools. I offer freelance services in experiment design, scientific writing (reports, summary, manuscripts, reviews), consultation in microbiology and evolutionary biology. Additionally, I also have experience in creating impactful decks to communicate research results with non-expert audience.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Evolutionary Biology
• ★ Biostatistics
• ★ Microbial Ecology
• ☆ Microbiology
• ☆ Microbiome Research
• ☆ Microbiological Assays
• ☆ Microscopy
• ☆ Light Microscopy
• ☆ Fluorescence Microscopy
• ☆ Ecology
• ☆ Python
• ☆ Excel
• ☆ R

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, Newswriting

Research Meta-Research, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Operations Consulting, Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Product Development Concept Development

Work Experience

PhD student

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

2023 - Present

Integrated-PhD

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India

January 2021 - Present

Education

PhD Microbiology (Microbiology and Cell Biology)

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

2023 - Present

MS Microbiology (Microbiology and Cell Biology)

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

2021 - 2023

B.Sc. (Honours) (Department of Zoology)

University of Delhi

2018 - 2021

Certifications

• Summer school in Evolutionary Biology

  University of Basel

  January 2025 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Vaibhav Sharma, Kumari J, Uthaman A, Bose S, Kundu A, Sharma V, Dutta S, Dhar A, Roy S, Srinivasan R, et al. (2025). Distinct filament morphology and membrane tethering features of the dual FtsZ paralogs in Odinarchaeota . The EMBO journal.

Vaibhav Sharma, Saha S, Sureshkumar S, Sharma V, Pande S (2025). Coevolutionary history of predation constrains the evolvability of antibiotic resistance in prey bacteria . npj antimicrobials and resistance.