The lab set up a booth at the campus science day last week. About a 1000 young students visited the campus and it was amazing to see the energy. Here are some pictures from our team, who did a great job!
2018 Science Day at NCBS
Science show on flour beetle immunity
Rajya Sabha TV's science special shows, 'Science Monitor' & 'Gyan Vigyan’ will feature our work on the evolution of immune memory in flour beetles. Tune in! Update: Watch the video here (our feature starts at 13:10 minutes into the program).
New paper: Antagonistic pleiotropy is rare!
Mrudula and Joshua’s paper measuring the incidence and fitness effects of antagonistically pleiotropic mutations is now out in Evolution! As they improve at performing one function, organisms often get worse at another function. Such a negative relationship between two functions (or traits) is called a tradeoff, and is a central idea in evolutionary biology. Tradeoffs... Continue Reading →
Infographic: How experience changes food choice in beetle larvae
A cool infographic about our recent paper on the induction of food preferences in Tribolium larvae. Graphic by Ipsa Jain.
2019 Preparatory school on Population Genetics and Evolution
Kavita Jain (JNCASR) and I have organized a series of ICTS Schools on Population Genetics and Evolution since 2014. To help participants get better prepared for the next school (scheduled in 2020), we are now introducing a preparatory school in Feb 2019. The intensive 1-week school will introduce biologists to key mathematical tools, and non-biologists... Continue Reading →
New paper: Prior experience changes food choice behaviour in beetle larvae
Vrinda and Swastika's paper on larval food choice behaviour in response to prior experience with new foods is out in Ecological Entomology! Several decades ago, it was observed that the juvenile (or larval) stages of several insects change their feeding preference in response to prior experience ("induction of preference"). We explored this trait in the ecological... Continue Reading →
New paper: Wobble-based insights into the bacterial genetic code
Gaurav’s large-scale phylogenetic analysis of bacterial tRNA modification systems is now published in MBE! An important property of tRNA molecules is the ability for wobble base pairing. Apart from the widely known GU wobble pairing, chemically modified bases in a tRNA extend wobble base pairing rules. Such tRNA modifications therefore expand the pool of tRNA... Continue Reading →
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