Nikhil Bhalla

Employment

• Karolinska Institutet Postdoctoral Researcher
  2025 - Present
• International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Project Scientist - I
  2024 - 2025
• International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Senior Research Fellow
  2023 - 2024
• Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology Project Associate - II
  2023 - 2023
• University of Delhi Ph.D. Fellow
  2017 - 2023
• University of Delhi Research Fellow (Project Fellow/JRF/SRF)
  2017 - 2022

Education

• University of Delhi Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
  2017 - 2023
• Amity University Master of Science (M.Sc.) Biotechnology
  2015 - 2017
• University of Delhi Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Zoology Hons.
  2013 - 2015

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (12)

• Lineage-associated small inversions disrupt dosT , dnaE2 , and a promoter-adjacent region in some Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates
  Microbiology Spectrum 2026 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02469-25
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• Large-scale cryptic proteome mining revealed potential phage-mediated host-pathogen genetic exchange in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  PLOS One 2026 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0348602
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• In-silico evidence of non-operonic fusion transcripts in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: algorithm optimization and signatures of genome plasticity
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.22.677293
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• Lineage-associated small inversions disrupt dosT, dnaE2, and a promoter-adjacent region in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  2025 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7319782/v1
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• Mutations in ace2 gene modulate cytokine levels and alter immune responses in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and SARS-CoV-2 co-infection: a Cameroonian cohort
  Frontiers in Immunology 2025 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1533213
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• Macrophages of diabetes and tuberculosis co-morbid conditions show perturbed differentiation and metabolic signatures
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.05.640816
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• Diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis comorbidity induce unique microbial gut dysbiosis and associated metabolome
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.09.642224
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• Humanace2andtmprss2polymorphisms for predicting susceptibility to tuberculosis and COVID-19 co-infection in Cameroonian cohort
  2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.14.24317326
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• Copy number variation analysis of 9,482Mycobacterium tuberculosisisolates identifies lineage-specific molecular determinants
  2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.15.618387
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• Pangenome-wide association study reveals the selective absence of CRISPR genes (Rv2816c-19c) in drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  Microbiology Spectrum 2024 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00527-24
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