Congratulations to Kruttika for winning the runner-up prize for best student talk at the Biology of Butterflies meeting! She spoke about finding a new example of Wolbachia bacteria distorting the sex ratio of a butterfly. Picture: Kruttika receiving her award from Naomi Pierce.
Gaurav showing off his thesis. So exciting!
Our campus has a new outreach program under the Science and the City initiative: the BLiSc Science Cafe (BLiSc = Bangalore Life Science Cluster). I will kick off this program with a talk at MyBoTree in Kormangala, Bangalore, this coming Sunday (11 am, June 24). Come hear about the exciting world of microbes that live... Continue Reading →
Kruttika's work on the bacterial communities of butterflies is now out in the journal Royal Society Open Science! This was our first large butterfly project, and it was a lot of fun. We collaborated with Krushnamegh Kunte for this project. We chased butterflies, learned to identify different species, and combed through different host plants to find... Continue Reading →
Krushnamegh Kunte and I edited a special virtual issue of the journal MBE (Molecular Biology and Evolution), featuring a few papers arising from the 2016 Genetics of Adaptation meeting we organized – and more. It’s on the MBE website now – check it out!
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