We just returned from a lab trip to Gudalur-Mudumalai-Edakkal, which was great fun. Here are some pictures!
Lab trip 2014
DST INSPIRE Faculty Award
Work on tRNA genes and synonymous codons in our lab will be supported by the Department of Science and Technology's INSPIRE Faculty award for the next five years.
Evolution Symposium: Celebrating Wallace
I'm very happy to announce a day-long symposium on evolutionary biology on 7 Nov 2013, which I am organizing along with Krushnamegh Kunte at NCBS. The symposium is in honor of Alfred Russel Wallace, who proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection along with Charles Darwin. Applications for research posters are due 15 Oct,... Continue Reading →
ICTS Program on Population Genetics
Applications due 13 October, 2013. The program includes a two-day preparatory crash course and a week-long school on population genetics with some of the best teachers on the subject from around the world. This will be followed by a two-day discussion meeting packed with exciting research talks. The school is open to students and postdocs:... Continue Reading →
DST Young Scientist grant for Imroze
Imroze was awarded a Young Scientist grant from DST, which will fund his work on the evolution of adaptive immune function in Tribolium beetles. Congratulations, Imroze!
Mihir Umarani joins the lab
Mihir recently finished his Integrated Master's degree from IISER Pune, where he worked with Deepak Barua to quantify variation in Impatiens plant species growing on rocky outcrops. He joins us as a Junior research fellow with a CSIR Fellowship, and is interested in insect-microbe interactions. Welcome, Mihir!
Congratulations to Ashwin and Swastika
Ashwin and Swastika recently finished their Master's theses from VIT (Vellore) and TERI University (New Delhi), after spending a semester in our lab working on their final thesis projects. Ashwin compared cultivable gut bacteria across nine species of dragonflies, documenting tremendous gut bacterial diversity in the group with very little overlap between conspecifics from different... Continue Reading →
Aparna Agarwal joins the lab
Aparna, who did a rotation with us earlier, has decided to join the lab as a PhD student. Welcome Aparna!
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