From left: Balu, Jose, Ullasa, Sumayya, Manas, Sraman, Birupaksha, Harshad, Tarun and Vedant. Lab trip to Vagamon, Dec 2018.
Ullasa did his BSc (Forestry) from the University of Agricultural Sciences (Bangalore), PhD from Stockholm University and joined IISER-TVM in 2013 after two postdocs - in Stockholm University and University of Cambridge. Personal webpage.
Sneha did her Masters in Biodiversity from Pune University. She works on diversification and ecology of hybrid zones in Impatiens plants.
Tarunkishwor did his BS-MS from IISER Mohali. He is working on the adaptive phenotypic plastity of colour patterns in butterlies.
Indukala is an Integrated-PhD student. She works on the evolution of life-history traits in satyrine butterflies.
Anaswara did her masters from. She works on butterfly hostplant interactions.
Tusheema did her masters from. She works on butterfly hostplant interactions.
Akhil did his masters from. He is interested in understanding what makes camouflage effective in avoiding predation.
Bhanu did his masters from Sikkim Central University on altitudinal variation in lizards. As part of his PhD, he is trying to understand the evolution of desiccation tolerance in insects.
Simran did her masters from Delhi University. For her PhD, she works on understand how human induced environmental changes affect plants.
From bottom row to top. First file from Right: Ullasa, Freerk, Harshad, Gopal. Second file: Ravi, Mruganka (red), Sridhar, Srikanta Third File: Sora (blue), Sumayya, Avantika, Ranjit. May 2016.
Ranjit, Sumayya, Ullasa, Ritwika and Harshad.
Kovalam, April 2014.