People in the lab

Dr. Avik Ray; DBT Post-doc 

I am primarily interested in invasion biology and phylogeography. Besides this, I’m also interested in conservation genetics of rare, 

endangered plants, gene flow through seed dispersal and pollen movement, crop domestication and community conservation.

Uttara Mendiratta; Research coordinator for Citizen Science

I coordinate the Citizen Science programme that is designed to study the impact of climate change on phenology, using a citizen 

science approach. The first project launched under the Citizen Science programme is MigrantWatch  that records the timing of 

bird migration. 

Sumit Sinha; Research assistant

I study brood-parasitism in koel-crow system at Rishi Valley, Chittoor Distt. I am looking into adaptations and counter-adaptations 

that hosts and parasites have evolved. I am also looking into cognitive ability and decision making by hosts to differentiate and reject non-self 

eggs in their nests.

Arun Elassery; SeasonWatch coordinator

Vishnupriya Hathwar; Citizen Science JRF

Umesh Srinivasan; PhD student

Amritendu Mukhopadhyay; PhD student

C Karthikeyan; Junior Research Fellow

Past members of the lab and short term visitors

Yashada Kulkarni; Summer student, 2010

R. Sreekar; Summer student, 2010

Pratha Sah; Summer student , 2010

Dr Rashid Raza; Post-doc, 2008-2009

Kedar Champhekar; Research assistant, 2007-2008

Uttaran Maiti; Summer student, 2009

Jayabharathy R; Summer student, 2009

Vallari Sheel; Summer student, 2009

Shabbeer Hassan; Int PhD student, 2008-2009

Dr Robin Vijayan; Visiting researcher, 2008-2010

Ambika Kamath; Summer student, 2007

Neha Dewan; Summer student, 2007

Palvi Korgaonkar; Summer student, 2007