Dr. Sankar Subramanian is a Senior Lecturer in Genetics. His research primarily centres around the question of how genetic drift influences mutations. He has worked on a number of research projects to investigate the interaction between drift and mutations, which include the evolution of codon usage bias, temporal patterns of deleterious mutations and population bottlenecks and inbreeding in human, dingo, penguin and fish populations. He has developed methods to identify and quantify deleterious mutations in human populations.