hello, i am amulya baral.

i am a PhD student at NMBU working on using . i'm 28 and live in Norway.

▸ 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'.

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.

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

do academic things

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

hike and camp, mostly in Norway and Nepal

▸ wear the same clothing every day

well, not the exact same pair, but i have 8 of the same t-shirt, 3 of the same sweater, and 2 of the same pants and that's pretty much 90% of the clothing i own. the term is 'onebag minimalist'. it's amazing! i've travelled for weeks at an end with just a "free personal item" bag without sacrificing on comfort. heavily inspired by jeremy maluf's indefinite backpack travel

if you have great audio equipment and would much rather listen to well-engineered music,