Gaurav pointing out his successful exit after defending his PhD thesis (mural at the Sastra University's Anusandhan Kendra).
Congratulations, Dr. Diwan!
Congratulations Dr. Phalnikar!
The lab's first, newly minted PhD, soon after her thesis defense.
Pratibha’s interview on Doordarshan
Listen to Pratibha discuss chemical ecology and her work on the Methylobacterium species associated with traditionally cultivated rice varieties here! The talk (in Manipuri) was aimed at the farmers in Manipur. Pratibha is currently testing whether Methylobacterium spp. isolated from rice are beneficial to the host plant, and hopes that this project is ultimately useful... Continue Reading →
2018 Science Day at NCBS
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!
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.
