# Shashank Pritam (@shashankpritam.bsky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/shashankpritam.bsky.social
Headline: I am a Computational Biologist.
Website: https://github.com/shashankpritam

## About

shuh-SHAHNK

## Experience

- **Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University** (2026 – present)
- **Graduate Teaching Assistant at Biological Sciences, NDSU** (2024 – 2025)

## Education

- **North Dakota State University** — PhD, Biological Sciences (2022 – 2026)
- **Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune** — BS-MS, Biological Sciences (2017 – 2022)

## Skills

- Python
- Shell Scripting
- R
- C
- Population Genetics
- Phylogenetics
- Comparative Genomics

## Publications

- Recent horizontal transfer of transposable elements in Drosophila — bioRxiv (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685650.abstract)
- The impact of insertion bias into piRNA clusters on the invasion of transposable elements — BMC Biology (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-025-02370-0)
- Evolution of piRNA-guided defense against transposable elements — Trends in Genetics (https://www.cell.com/trends/genetics/abstract/S0168-9525(24)00293-2)

## Languages

- English (full_professional)
- HIndi (native)
- Magadhi (native)

## Other profiles

- github: https://github.com/shashankpritam
- orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4228-7883
- website: https://shashankpritam.com