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Prof. Sumana Annagiri
Prof. Sumana Annagiri
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata
Research: Her lab focuses on the behaviour, ecology and evolution among social insects. The life history and dynamics of the Indian queenless ant Diacamma indicum, including their decision-making abilities, cognition, response to injury, disease, and pesticides, and the competition they encounter, particularly during colony relocation, are the main themes of research. These are the main themes of research in her lab.
Prof. Sutirth Dey
Prof. Sutirth Dey
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune
Research: His team seeks to understand how the life-history of organisms and demographic parameters of populations interact with various environmental aspects on both short (i.e. ecological) and long (i.e. evolutionary) timescales. The other feature of their work is the use of a wide-array of genomic, biochemical, physiological and behavioural techniques to understand how organisms evolve.
Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar
Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar
Affiliation: Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Research: He has established an active school of research in the area of Animal Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution. The origin and evolution of cooperation in animals, especially in social insects, such as ants, bees and wasps, is a major goal of his research. By identifying and utilizing crucial elements in India’s biodiversity, he has added a special Indian flavour to his research.
Prof. Guha Dharmarajan
Prof. Guha Dharmarajan
Affiliation: Krea University
Research: His research is primarily in the fields of disease ecology and ecosystem health. Specifically, he studies how human-mediated environmental perturbations – global climate change, habitat modification and environmental pollution – affect disease dynamics in human and wildlife populations, and in turn how such altered disease dynamics feedback on ecosystem health by impacting eco-evolutionary processes at the individual, population and community scales.
Prof. Kavita Isvaran
Prof. Kavita Isvaran
Affiliation: Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Research: Her research focusses on understanding the ecology and evolution of diversity in behaviour and life history traits, particularly social and reproductive traits. Her group works on different systems, including antelope, lizards and mosquitoes. She is also interested in using behavioural and evolutionary approaches to address applied problems.
Prof. Amitabh Joshi
Prof. Amitabh Joshi
Affiliation: Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)
Research: He is interested in the evolutionary process per se, rather than this or that taxon or trait complex. As a corollary, he is primarily interested in conceptualizations, not organisms. His lab uses experimental evolution/ecology approaches, involving long-term selection and population dynamics studies of laboratory systems of well-replicated fruitfly populations to address questions in life-history evolution, density-dependent selection and adaptations to crowding, evolution of demographic parameters and population stability, and dynamic and stability responses of spatially structured and unstructured populations to various ecological and evolutionary perturbations.
He also works on core conceptual issues in evolutionary theory, including non-genic inheritance, redefining selection and Darwinian fitness, and evaluating the claims of Extended Evolutionary Synthesis proponents, as part of the informal 'Foundations of Genetics and Evolution Group' (FOGEG), together with my colleague Prof. TNC Vidya, and our alumni, Profs. NG Prasad (IISER Mohali) and Sutirth Dey (IISER Pune). This work also has major elements of the history/sociology and philosophy of science to it.
Prof. N G Prasad
Prof. N G Prasad
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali
Research: His research interests are in the broad areas of Sexual conflict, Sexual Selection, Life-History Evolution and Evolutionary Ecology of Immunity. His Studies aim to understand the effects of sexual conflict and sexual selection on aging and immune response. He uses classical laboratory selection, phenotypic manipulation as well as molecular approaches to understand sexual conflict influencing sex- specific gene regulation, especially of the ones involved in metabolic and immune pathways.
Prof. H A Ranganath
Prof. H A Ranganath
Affiliation: University of Mysore
Research: Dr Ranganath’s forte is experimental evolution. He pioneered such an approach to uncover and to understand the process and the patterns of population differentiation and raciation in Drosophila. Interracial hybrid experimental populations have been maintained in the environs of laboratory for over four decades. With a multidimensional approach he and his team have reported many novel features of population genetics of racial divergence. He was able to document the catalytic role of hybridization in evolution.
Prof. L S Shashidhara
Prof. L S Shashidhara
Affiliation: National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)
Research: His research specialise in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Evolutionary biology. His group has identified key mechanisms that specify organ development and regulate growth control during embryonic development. They have also expanded their study to examine the status of these evolutionarily conserved mechanisms in epithelial cancers in humans.
Prof. Mewa Singh
Prof. Mewa Singh
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Mysore
Research: Mewa Singh is a wildlife biologist with specific interest in primate ecology, behavior, and conservation. He has published extensively on resource partitioning among sympatric species, evolution of habitat-specific foraging strategies, group dynamics and dispersal, ranging patterns, etc. He has attempted to bridge the gap between behavioral biology and conservation biology.
Prof. T N C Vidya
Prof. T N C Vidya
Affiliation: Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)
Research: Her research is primarily in the area of vertebrate behaviour and socioecology, while maintaining broader interests in the areas of behavioural ecology, conservation biology, phylogeography, and evolutionary biology. She and her team have been studying the socioecology of the Asian elephant in southern India, having set up the Kabini Elephant Project that collects long-term multidimensional data on hundreds of individually identified elephants.
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