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2022

October

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  • Congratulations Aparajita for successfully defending your Ph.D. thesis!

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September

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  • Congratulations Tejinder Singh for successfully defending your Ph.D. thesis!

  • Congratulations Manas Arun Samant for successfully defending your Ph.D. thesis!

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August

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  • Shivam joins the lab as a PhD student!

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2021

June

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  • Congratulations Komal for successfully defending your Ph.D. thesis!

2020

December

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  • Congratulations Prasad for being elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru!

2018

December

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  • Prasad is elected a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy

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September

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  • Aparajita presents her research at EMPSEB24 in Bubión, Granada (Spain)

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August

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  • Manas presents a poster at the Second Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Montpellier

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June

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  • Zeeshan joins Prof. Scott Pitnick at Syracuse University as a Post Doctoral Fellow

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May

 

  • Karan, Prakhar, Harshavardhan, Aatashi, Vaibhvi, Reshma, and Parvathy get awarded their BS-MS degrees on the 7th convocation IISER Mohali

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March

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  • TJ and Rohit attend The Third Bangalore School on Population Genetics and Evolution (PGE2018) at ICTS Bangalore

 

January

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  • It is very cold

  • Zeeshan successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis titled "Sex, and Its tentacles: The impact of sexual conflict on reproductive and life history trait evolution and reproductive isolation among populations." Mubarkaan!!!

2017

December

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  • Uddyalok attends the National Drosophila Research Conference at IISER Bhopal

  • Zeeshan, Rohit, Ruchika, Komal, Neetika and Aparajita attend the Conference on Evolutionary and Integrative Biology at IISER Pune

  • Vinesh joins Dr. Guy Bloch's group at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Post-doctoral Fellow

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October

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  • Rohit, Komal, Vaibhvi, Reshma, Harshvardhan, and undergraduates attend the International Conference in Zoological Sciences and Ants at Punjabi University in Patiala

  • Rohit and Komal win Best Talk Awards

  • Zeeshan joins Dr. Bodhisatta Nandy at IISER Berhampur as a Post Doctoral Fellow

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August

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  • Aabeer Kumar Basu joins the lab as a Ph.D. Student  

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July

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June

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  • Zeeshan's paper 'Reproductive Isolation through Experimental Manipulation of Sexually Antagonistic Coevolution in Drosophila melanogaster' gets published in Nature Scientific Reports

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May

 

  • Atisha, Sushma, Akansha, Martik, Megha and Ekta get awarded their BS-MS degrees on the 6th convocation IISER Mohali

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April

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  • Dr. Bodhisatta Nandy, former PhD student receives INSA medal for young scientist award 2017

  • Dr. Imroze Khan joins Ashoka University as Assistant Professor

 

February

 

  • Dr. Vanika Gupta joins Prof. Brian Lazzaro at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA as a post-doctorate fellow

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January

 

  • Ruchika joins the lab as a PhD student

2016

November

 

  • TJ's paper "Virility does not imply immensity: testis size, accessory gland size and ejaculate depletion pattern do not evolve in response to experimental manipulation of sex ratio in Drosophila melanogaster" accepted for publication in Journal of Insect Physiology

  • Zeeshan attends the 'Genetics of Adaptation' conference in Bangalore

 

October

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  • Vinesh's paper "Drosophila melanogaster males evolve increased courtship as a correlated response to larval crowding" published in Animal Behaviour

  • Vinesh's paper "Local adaptation to developmental density does not lead to higher mating success in Drosophila melanogaster" published in Journal of Evolutionary Biology

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September

 

  • Karan Bhatt, Aatashi Dhiman, Ateesha Negi, Harshavardhan T, Megha Srigyan attend the seventh Student Conference on Conservation Science - Bengaluru.

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June

 

  • 'Local adaptation to developmental density does not lead to higher mating success in Drosophila melanogaster' by Vinesh Shanoi and N.G.Prasad accepted for publications in Journal of Evolutionary Biology​

  • 'Evolution of pre- and post-copulatory traits in female Drosophila melanogaster as a correlated response to selection for resistance to cold stress' by Karan Singh and N.G.Prasad has been published in Journal of Insect Physiology

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May

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  • Vinesh Shenoi successfully defends his thesis.

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April

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  • Karan Singh successfully defended his thesis

  • Karan Singh has been accepted as a Post Doctoral fellow in University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA

  • 'Evolution of Pre- and Post-Copulatory Traits in Male Drosophila melanogaster as a Correlated Response to Selection for Resistance to Cold Stress' by Karan Singh, M.A Samant, Megha Treesa Tom, N.G. Prasad has been published in PLOS ONE

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March

 

  • 'No apparent cost of evolved immune response in Drosophila melanogaster' by Vanika Gupta, Saudamini Venkatesan, Martik Chatterjee, Zeeshan A. Syed, Vaishnavi Nivsarkar and Nagaraj G. Prasad was published in Evolution

  • Karan Singh, Zeeshan and Martik presented their respective works in India-Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution (I-BEE) 2016 held at Jim Corbett National Park Uttarakhand from 10-12th March

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February

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  • Dr. Rochishnu Dutta joins the lab as a Post Doctoral fellow

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January

 

  • Vanika Gupta succesfully defended her thesis titled 'In Sickness and in Health: Exploring the evolution of immune response in Drosophila melanogaster'

  • Tejinder joins the lab as a PhD  student​​

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2015

January 

 

  • Neetika and Komal join the lab as PhD students.

2014

August 

 

  • Aparajita joins the lab as a PhD student

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June 

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  • Vanika, Vinesh, Karan and Zeeshan are representing the lab in the Evolution 2014 conference being held at Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Each one of them is presenting a talk about their research

  • Zeeshan is one of the 27 finalists for the coveted Hamilton Prize

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