hello, i am amulya baral.
i am a PhD student at NMBU working on using . i'm 28 and live in Norway.
When bacteria develop the ability to survive antibiotics, making infections harder (sometimes impossible) to treat. Already causing over a million deaths per year globally, and the number is rising. My work looks at how resistance genes spread through cattle populations and into the broader environment.
Sequencing DNA extracted directly from environmental samples (like feces, wastewater, soil) without culturing bacteria first. This lets us survey entire microbial communities and map the resistance genes they carry, including from organisms that can't be grown in a lab.
▸ how to pronounce the name
it is pronounced "Uh-MOOL-yah buh-RAAL" where "Uh" is like the 'u' in "umbrella," "MOOL" (stressed) rhymes with "pool," "yah" sounds like "yeah," "buh" is like the 'bu' in "butter," and "RAAL" (stressed) has a slightly rolled 'r'.
for work, i
am doing a phd looking at how much antibiotics cattle use and what it may be doing to the AMR genes; rave the microbiome in general
made panres2 AMR gene database ontology browser
made and maintain nomoreamr.org, a knowledge base for AMR and AMU surveillance systems in the nordics
made swiftomics.com, a no-code bioinformatics platform that runs 100% locally on your own computer (work in progress)
for life, i
run marathons once or twice a year, train for it year-round
spend a lot of money on coffee (i believe a coffee producer should get the same fame/compensation for their labor as a french wine maker)
hike and camp, mostly in Norway and Nepal
if you want to talk about metagenomics, AMR, or anything, please text me on signal @amulya.01
or instead, if you have great audio equipment and would much rather listen to well-engineered music,