We have another fun summer conference season lined up this year; as usual, most lab members have received travel awards. Come hear about our work if you happen to be at these meetings! Mrudula, Kruttika, Laasya, Saurabh, Joshua and I will be at the SMBE meeting in Yokohama, Japan, starting 8 July. We're all super... Continue Reading →
Kruttika wins award for talk
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.
The first PhD thesis from the lab, ready to be submitted!
Gaurav showing off his thesis. So exciting!
Coming up: Science Cafe talk
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 →
New paper: Butterflies and their bacteria
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 →
Special issue on the Genetics of Adaptation
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!
Announcing the 2018 SPEEC-UP competition
I'm happy to announce that the 2nd edition of the SPEEC-UP 2018 meeting is open for abstracts. The meeting features student presentations (including research project staff and postdocs) on Ecology, Evolution, Environmental Sciences and Conservation. The meeting is organised by a bunch of folks from ATREE, IISc, NCBS, Dakshin, NCF, and WCS. This year, SPEEC-UP will be... Continue Reading →
New paper: Females drive sex ratio effects
I'm so happy that our work on the fitness effects of sex ratio in flour beetles is finally out in the American Naturalist! I say "finally" because this work represents multiple years of hard work by a large-ish team, including people from Radhika Venkatesan's lab at NCBS. In fact, apart from me, all other lab... Continue Reading →
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