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!
People flux
It is summer- time for change! We recently said goodbye to Shreyasi, who will join Rice University as a PhD student this Fall. We will soon have interns joining us for the summer: Anshul (who is already here and developing into an expert beetle handler), Jayjit, Agrim, Varada, Aparnna and finally, Vedant. We look forward... Continue Reading →
Conference on Bacterial Expressions
Aswin Seshasayee, Sandeep Krishna and I are organizing a conference on Bacterial Expressions in October 2013, at NCBS. For more information, see the conference website
Bangalore Evolution Group Meeting III
Where: Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) When: 25 April, starting at 3 pm Speakers: R. Nandini ("Female-biased sexual size dimorphism in flying squirrels: exploring possible causes") and Prof. Uma Shaanker ("Do ecological niche reflect adaptive landscape of species ?") A shuttle will leave from NCBS at 2.30 pm to take participants to... Continue Reading →
