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I'm a fifth year BS-MS student doing my master's project in Uma's lab on Pedigree and Demographic Studies on the Royal Bengal Tiger population at Ranthambore Tiger Reserve.
Hi! I'm Antara, a Junior Research Fellow studying inbreeding and lethal recessive mutations in captive populations of Tigers and Lions. My current research interests involve the effect of global change on populations and using genomics to address and guide species conservation. In my free time I love hiking and exploring new places, often sketching and writing about my experiences in the wild!
I am Fathima Aslaha T R, a final year BS-MS student enrolled at IISER Tirupati, and I am actively engaged in my MS dissertation project at Uma's Lab. My primary research focus revolves around comprehending the ecology and evolution of diseases. Over the long term, I aspire to delve deeper into the origin and spread of understudied diseases in South Asia.
At present, my research is centred on the ecology and evolution of Toxoplasma gondii, a zoonotic parasite with the potential to infect various warm-blooded animals, including humans.
Megan is a post doctoral researcher investigating the recent demographic history of tigers within India. Megan's research focuses on how habitat fragmentation, and bounty hunting during British colonial rule impacted the genomic diversity of tiger populations. Megan has field experience sampling biodiversity across multiple regions including bird surveys in St Lucia, understanding mammal distribution in eastern Thailand, and lemur diversity and distribution in Madagascar. Her PhD research focused on genomics of the aye-aye, a cryptic, nocturnal lemur species. Megan conducts research that spans the disciplines of conservation, bioinformatics, molecular biology, and genomics. She is especially interested in the application of genomics to questions that are pertinent to species conservation, and how to be use advances in genomics to support biodiversity conservation.
I am interested in understanding how the climatic and geographic heterogeneity has shaped the genetic variation of different species in South Asia. Currently I am using genomic data to investigate how the different Asian elephant populations are related to each other, how connected they are with each other historically, and also how their population history has been influenced by the climatic changes that took place in South Asia over the last few million years. I am also aiming to detect populations which are isolated and/or inbred and hence, under possible threat of local extinction. I am hoping that this will aid in devising conservation strategies towards their protection.
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