How might carcass scavenging relax the fitness effects of female interference competition #chemical-warfare in flour beetles? See our latest manuscript to read the full story that also talks about chemical ecology and infection risk associated with scavenging and its fitness effects. Overall, it was super fun to write a manuscript quite different our usual stories #ecology #notevoimmunology. Great work … Continue reading Our latest manuscript in bioRxiv #Interesting implications for the evolution of competitive interactions, chemical ecology and spread of disease!

Glad to inform, as part of the eLife editorial team led by George Perry (Penn State U) and Dominique Soldati-Favre (U Geneve), about a Special Issue on evolutionary medicine Tentative areas are Antibiotic and antimicrobial resistance evolution Health-related pleiotropic tradeoffs of past human adaptation Health-related consequences of past adaptation mismatches with modern environments The evolutionary … Continue reading eLife invites papers in evolutionary medicine (Special Issue) @eLife

Happy to consider applications for PhD students in our various ongoing projects on aging of immunity, co-infection, cost of immunity. Click this link for online application https://www.ashoka.edu.in/page/phd-bio-105

Glad to announce that Department of Biology at Ashoka University, in association with the Indian Society for Evolutionary Biologists, is organizing a "Seminar series on Ecology and Evolution" (detailed program), as a part of Science Day celebrations on 28th February 2020 (Timing: 2-6pm). Register here  Venue: Ashoka University Campus, Rajiv Gandhi Education city, Sonipat (Science Block Room 003) Timing: 2-6pm Please find the … Continue reading Celebrating Science Day with Evolution Talks@Ashoka

We just had a great time at the first edition of Indian Society for Evolutionary Biologist meeting at Bangalore (24-25 Oct, 2019), with three posters from the lab on (a) cannibalism, disease and fitness (Basabi) (b) mating and immunity (Devshuvam) & (c) Immunity & microbiome (Srijan).  Basabi also won the best poster prize! Congratulations to all lab … Continue reading Friends_Colleagues_Science_poster_prize @Indian Society for Evolutionary Biologist meeting_1st edition

The historical development of the fields of genetics and evolution has been intertwined, at least since the time of Darwin in the mid-nineteenth century. Both fields, by virtue of the domains they address, also impact upon how we humans conceive of ourselves. Consequently, advances in understanding in genetics and evolution are answering age-old mysteries about … Continue reading More Information: “Mini symposium on Genetics and Evolution: Intertwined Strands” at Ashoka University (September 30- October 1, 2019)

I am thrilled to announce that we (@ashokauniversity) in association with Indian Academy of Sciences are organizing a two day long "Mini symposium on Genetics and Evolution: Intertwined Strands" . While this features some exciting talks by leading Evolutionary Biologists and Geneticists from India, it also has special interaction sessions for students and non-specialists in … Continue reading Mini-symposium on Genetics and Evolution @Ashokauniversity (30th September-1st October, 2019)

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We welcome Biswajit from IISER Mohali who has joined us today at Ashoka as a SERB funded project assistant. He will be working on immunity, aging and co-infection. We all are excited to have a great time on bench