education and training
- Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Indiana University Bloomington - (Bloomington, Indiana, United States) 2004
selected publications
Academic Articles27
- Katju, V., Konrad, A., Deiss, T. C., & Bergthorsson, U. (2022). Mutation rate and spectrum in obligately outcrossing Caenorhabditis elegans mutation accumulation lines subjected to RNAi-induced knockdown of the mismatch repair gene msh-2. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics. 12(1), jkab364.
- Beltran, T., Shahrezaei, V., Katju, V., & Sarkies, P. (2020). Epimutations driven by small RNAs arise frequently but most have limited duration in Caenorhabditis elegans. 4(11), 1539-1548.
- Bergthorsson, U., Sheeba, C. J., Konrad, A., Belicard, T., Beltran, T., Katju, V., & Sarkies, P. (2020). Long-term experimental evolution reveals purifying selection on piRNA-mediated control of transposable element expression.. BMC Biol. 18(1), 162.
- Dubie, J. J., Caraway, A. R., Stout, M. M., Katju, V., & Bergthorsson, U. (2020). The conflict within: origin, proliferation and persistence of a spontaneously arising selfish mitochondrial genome.. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 375(1790), 20190174-20190174.
- Konrad, A., Brady, M. J., Bergthorsson, U., & Katju, V. (2019). Mutational Landscape of Spontaneous Base Substitutions and Small Indels in Experimental Caenorhabditis elegans Populations of Differing Size.. Genetics. 212(3), 837-854.
Chapters1
- Bergthorsson, U., & Katju, V. (2016). Gene CopyNumber Changes in Evolution. eLS. 1-11. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
researcher on
Principal Investigator2
recent teaching activities
- BICH491 Hnr-research Instructor
- BICH491 Research Instructor
- BIMS320 Biomedical Genetics Instructor
- BIMS320 Biomedical Genetics-costa Rica Instructor
- BIMS320 Hnr-biomedical Genetics Instructor
Email
vkatju1859@tamu.edu
First Name
Vaishali
Last Name
Katju
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Veterinary Integrative Biosciences; 4458 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4458
USA