#OpenPhDposition
My lab will have 1-2 open PhD positions in 2024 Monsoon. If you have completed your master's; & genetics, genomics, and evolution of host-pathogen interactions/ Immunity excites you, please click the link
I am glad to inform that our work on evolution of immune responses will now be funded by a Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship Award for the next five years (starting from Jan 2021)
@AshokaUniv
@India_Alliance
special thanks to
@basabibagchi
@srijan_seal
Thrilled🥳 Manasven Raina from our lab just got an offer from Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in
Evolutionary Biology (MEME). He has done some really cool work with dispersal and pathogen avoidance in the lab
#1stbatchAshokaBio
@AshokaUniv
This masked lady is my nani (grandmother) never taking off her mask even when she is
@her
#OwnBackyard
. While many of us (young folks) complain, she keeps her clam and says these are testing times which need to be fought with exemplary measures.
#SayNo
To
#spreadingCOVID19
I will be hiring a postdoc (>3years of funding) soon to work on the genomics of host-pathogen interaction in an experimental evolution setup;
@beetleimmunity
Details will be shared soon. Drop me a line if interested
With all the supercool organisers of National PostDoc Symposium
#npds2023
@TSB_Ashoka
. Let us hope to forge more collaborations, discussions and dialogues; and foster boundless opportunities spanning academia, industry and societal needs for a brighter future of Indian biology.
#EcoEvoFolks
MScBiology
@AshokaUniv
offers various research opportunities in ecology & evolution, using interdisciplinary approaches to emerging issues, e.g., climate, health and disease. Please spread the word
Congratulations to Saubhik Sarkar (Not on Twitter) for bagging the poster award at
@UBehaviour
2023. Saubhik is addressing some really cool questions for his PhD on how evolution liaises with an ageing immunity and the ability to fight infections
@AshokaUniv
@TSB_Ashoka
Super happy to see this finally coming out 😃
@JEvBio
Here, we could show how diet microbes could exert distinct impacts on different immune strategies evolving against bacterial pathogens.
Congratulations Aryan Ramachandran (mentee; not on twitter) and
@srijan_seal
(mentor) for winning the poster award at
@AshokaUniv
science fest 2023 for their work on interspecific competition and virulence evolution 🥳🥳. Way to go
Delighted to start as one of the administrators/ moderators of
@biaswatchindia
Peer Support Slack group: A platform for early career STEM researchers from under-represented groups. Do reach out to us; spread the word :)
As part of our ongoing efforts to provide a voice and platform to under-represented groups and allies in India academia, we are proud to introduce the BWI Peer Support Slack Group (BWI-PSG) 🙌🏽💪🏽
A postdoctoral scientist position funded by India Alliance-DBT/Wellcome Trust is available in our evolutionary immunology research group ()
@AshokaUniv
Deadline: Dec 6, 2020
Starts from Jan 2021
Why and how a multidisciplinary research effort combining immunology, ecology and evolution is indispensable to understand future pandemics and emerging infections?
@srijan_seal
explains to
@eLife
@AshokaUniv
See the press release on our perspective
Our
#newpaper
on adaptive evolution, different life-history trade-offs underlying pathogen resistance vs innate immune memory in insects is available online now.
#1st
Evidence for experimentally evolved
#transgenerational
-immune-memory in insects.
Our latest manuscript on how carcass scavenging reverses fitness effects of female interference competition
#chemicalwarfare
in flour beetles. It was super-fun to write a very different manuscript away from our usual stories
#ecology
IndiaBioscience is pleased to announce
#YIM2021
, a life science networking meeting for young investigators and postdocs.
#YIM2021
will be completely online and feature panel discussions, mentor talks, breakout sessions & more 📅 17-19 March 2021👉Apply now!
A fascinating talk in line. Don't miss this lecture by Jack Szostak who is also on the advisory board of Trivedi School of Biosciences. On the
#OriginofLife
Trivedi School of BioSciences,
@AshokaUniv
invites you for a lecture on 'Why did Life start with RNA and not Something Else?' on 30th June at 7:30PM by Prof. Jack William Szostak, Professor of Genetics,
@harvardmed
.
Register at: .
#NobelPrize
#Genetics
Congratulations
@Deepnb
for the highly prestigious Simon-Ashoka Fellowship. Together, we plan to explore the quantitative biology of antimicrobial peptides 🍻
A first-of-its-kind Simons–Ashoka Fellowship Programme is launching now.
Apply to be part of a team of
#earlycareer
researchers and help pioneer personalised
#medicine
initiatives through basic and applied
#health
science research.
Apply today:
Pulling off
#YIM2021
#PDFMeeting2021
virtually without losing the fabric of openness vibrant atmosphere and friendship is our resilience to difficult times. I will cherish this memory.. thanks
@IndiaBioscience
and all the friends that I made all this while
Many congratulations to our super UG intern Selah Makinishi for winning the best poster award at the Ashoka Science Research Festival 2024. She presented her work on the evolution of reproductive strategies with climate warming with
@BISWAJI93677659
😀🏆
@AshokaUniv
@TSB_Ashoka
Congratulations Basabi Bagchi for the best poster award at
#ISEB
; Celebrating Ecology and Evolution in India at JNCASR, Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists.
@AshokaUniv
How/Why do zoonotic infections arise in nature? Tricky to get clear answers unless we track evolutionary interactions of immunity, ecology and life-history of disease carrying animals in their natural habitat.
Our new review led by
@srijan_seal
Super happy that two of my youngest lab-members, Aryan Ramachandran & Tanmay Singh, got into the highly prestigious Erasmus Mundus MS Program In Evolutionary Biology
@MEME_evobio
; They will study and do scholarly research in some of the best departments across Europe 😃
Our lab will have two open PhD positions to work on the functional genomics of host-pathogen interactions, evolution of immunity & disease spread in both lab and natural populations. More updates soon
Write to me, if you need more information on these project
The
#Biology
Department
@AshokaUniv
invites
#PhD
applications for its
#graduate
program. A number of
#newPI
s are looking for grad students to join their exciting research program. Pls spread the word.
Congratulations 🏆
@BISWAJI93677659
for the
@Inspire
PhD fellowship award. He will be looking at the crossroads of climate change, pathogens and disease 🍻
The Lab will be travelling to a bunch of conferences/meetings this season; DrosEU/ESEB STN summer school; Congress of
@eseb_org
, Prague and then Ecological Immunology Workshop, Blossin. Lets catch up to hear some cool work by
@basabibagchi
@srijan_seal
@BISWAJI93677659
& Saubhik
Congratulations😃to
@BISWAJI93677659
Arun Prakash & Saubhik Sarkar for showing how ageing influences the antimicrobial peptide responses in flies. It's accepted now in Proceedings B
@RSocPublishing
; thanks
@pfvale
for the fun collaboration!
#Preprint
Applications for
#NPDS2023
- 'Science & Society: Vision to Transition' are now open ! Interested Early Career Researchers can use the following link to apply:
.
Visit for more information.
Celebrating the Rapidly growing Ecology, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology community at Ashoka.
#EcologyAshokaSymposium
. A wonderful initiative by
@manvigsharma
& Shivani Krishna (Not on Twitter)
Shivani and I organised the Ecology
@Ashoka
Symposium which featured talks on behaviour, ecology, and evolution. Wonderful to immerse in ideas at
@ashoka
has built a community of researchers working on these themes
Are you a postdoctoral fellow on the verge of an independent research career? We invite you to apply for PDF Meeting 2021, a 4-day virtual networking meet that will allow you to interact directly with institutional representatives from India. More details:
Srijan Seal from Dr. Imroze Khan's lab at Ashoka University has been awarded Graduate Research Excellent Grant – RC Lewontin Early Award by " Society for the Study of Evolution". He is possibly the first India-based PhD student in evolutionary biology to get this award.
Thanks to
@J_Exp_Biol
for organising a terrific symposium on developmental plasticity: molecules to evolutionary processes, with some brilliant line of speakers and delightful Tuscan days 😀😀
Glad to see this preprint out!
We show drastic expansion of antimicrobial peptide repertoire with ageing in fruit flies, with absolutely no survival benefits after infection. In some cases, it, in fact, was associated with survival costs
Our lab folks are busy presenting a wide variety of work at various conferences this December. Please find them to learn more about our upcoming work.
@BISWAJI93677659
(climate warming & immunity) at
#InDRC2023
iisertvm ; me (coinfection)
#SMBEregional
(Dehradun) (1/2)
ISEB4 ended yesterday with talks on acoustics on sholakili, egg laying decision, chromosome inversion to name a few of the diverse topics covered. Thanks a lot to
@RajpurohitLab
members for their hardwork. Cherry on the cake.. Getting best poster award from
@ragh_gadagkar
A sneak peek into Ashoka YSP day 1.
***
About Ashoka Young Scholars Programme:
Certified, residential, academic, and personality enrichment summer programmes for high school students. Designed to inspire & prepare students for subject choices, college decisions, & life beyond.
Inviting application for a postdoctoral position at Ashoka University "Genetic basis of adaptation against infection and disease"
#Evolution
#Bioinformatics
@IndiaBioscience
. Deadline July 10
Ashoka gets ready to host editorial board meeting of Journal of Genetics followed by an impressive line of talks by Amitabh Joshi, N G Prasad, Umesh Varshney and several others. Looking forward ....
It was lovely chatting with
@sarahjmcpeek
about our work on carcass savenging and quinones in Tribolium beetles. This work was indeed a culmination of months of hard work and sleepless nights from all of us
@evoimmunoimroze
@srijan_seal
Manasven and Dipendra.
Our paper "Pathogen susceptibility and fitness costs explain variation in immune priming across natural populations of flour beetles" is now accepted in Journal of Animal Ecology (online preprint: …)
#insectimmunity
#memory
They were exciting times brewing with cool ideas, conversations, riot of experiments and ofcourse lot of partying...! Great team building and mentoring... Way to go
@DeepaAgashe
Two former postdoctoral fellows in the lab,
@raxitdaves
&
@evoimmunoimroze
are now faculty elsewhere in India. They are working on really interesting problems in evolution and ecology, & are very committed mentors. Looking forward to new findings from their groups!
#LabinFocus
Sexual conflict drives sexual dimorphism in immunity in seed beetles
Females adapt to mitigate effects of male-inflicted harm during mating. But there is a price to pay...
🤩We're EXCITED to announce a new sponsorship from The American Society for Cell Biology
@ASCBiology
!
Starting this August, our webinar series will be funded by their COMPASS Outreach Grant.
Thank you all for your unwavering support-this wouldn't have been possible without you❤️
An extended lab retreat into the wilderness of breathtakingly beautiful Satpura. Tons of thanks to my old friend
@savita_chib
for helping us to organise the trip and exchanging ideas for exploring the natural history of Pachmarhi and beyond. Looking forward
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.." Charles Dickens might as well be describing life of a
#graduatestudent
To see the spring of hope & season of light, a field visit is recommended, prticlrly 4 lab scientists. Ask
@evoimmunoimroze
#Labretreat
@AshokaUniv
How far can we delay the empowerment of evolutionary (population biology) research on Infection and health, disease and pathogens in India?
#COVID19
waves, emerging variants and predictably unpredictable transmission patterns: Shouldn't they be the eye-opener?
.
@AshokaUniv
's Inspire Lectures is a series of talks on the theme of Interdisciplinarity by distinguished speakers.
The first lecture of the series is by Professor Dame Gillian Beer on 'Darwin and the Descent of Woman' on 15th June at 6 PM.
Register at .
Ashoka is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Shahid Jameel, the internationally acclaimed virologist as the Director, Trivedi School of Biosciences.
Dr. Jameel comes to Ashoka after spending over 7 years as CEO,
@India_Alliance
#NewPreprint
A tiny proof-of-principle story about how microbiota manipulations of diet might have divergent effects on experimentally evolved inducible vs constitutive immune strategies in flour beetles
We provide first report of experimental evolution of insect immune memory raising exciting questions about its costs, underlying mechanisms, and evolutionary impact.
We are excited to announce the 6th edition of NPDS co-organized and hosted by
@AshokaUniv
from 12th-14th October, 2023. This time we focus on 'Science and Society- Vision to Transition'.
Registration commencing soon. Check out for more details.
Oh what a country for wildlife. All with a billion people. It is not to do with population, it has more to do with whether people will allow the wildlife to remain or not...toon by Rohan Chakravarty.
A nice preprint from Pedro Vale's lab, with
@BISWAJI93677659
from
@AshokaUniv
as a coauthor
The immune regulation and epidemiological consequences of immune priming in fruit flies
@SciArtAlert
!!! Four
@AshokaUniv
Biology students - Mahati, Varshini, Lari & Ameya are getting into an exciting sci-art initiative -
#Artiverse
Please commission them for your scientific stories & spread the word as widely possible
@IndiaBioscience
Months of hard work finally paid off. Our paper titled “Carcass scavenging relaxes chemical-driven female interference competition in flour beetles” just got accepted in
@ASNAmNat
Do give it a read everyone and share your thoughts.