Lab News

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• Vinita has been elected as a fellow of the Linnaean Society of London. Congratulations!

• Vinita has a new editorial out! Read it in Current Science.

• Protocol for Madhu Duniya 2023 workshop

• Aug 2023: Rhuthuparna and Hemant received the Systematic research fund, funded by the Linnean Society of London and the Systematics Association

• Aug 2023: Article titled 'Birds use waste to build nests in a Bhopal institute', published in Mongabay-India

• July 2023: Aleena received the Gentry award for best talk at ATBC 2023.

• July 2023: Saket received ATREE award for best talk at ATBC 2023.

• July 2023: Sukhraj received the ATBC Navjyot Sodhi Award 2023.

• July 2023: Sukhraj won the Photo competition 2023 for the People and Nature at the ATBC.

• June 2023: Saket and Sukhraj received the IRALE sponsorship to attend the ATBC conference 2023.

• June 2023: Saket received an award for best talk award at Understanding Behaviour 2023.

• June 2023: Agnes and Rhuthuparna received the ATBC LOC grant.​​

• June 2023: Rhuthuparna and Anupama received ATBC Seed Grant 2023.

• June 2023: Rhuthuparna received Society for Tropical Ecology Student Research Grant, 2023

• June 2023: Prasanna successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Prasanna!​

• July 2023: IISER-Bhopal BSA Student Chapter is conducting a workshop at ATBC annual meeting 2023. Please register here​​​

• May 2023: Rhuthuparna received Student Convention Grant to attend Annual Gesneriad Society Convention, 2023. Congratulations!

• May 2023: Sukhraj received ESEB Godfrey Hewitt Mobility award. Congratulations!

• May 2023: Anupama recieved the ASPT graduate student grant for 2023. Congratulations!

• May 2023: Anupama recieved the HSI research award.

• Mar 2023: Saket recieved the Dr. P. E. Rajasekharan award for the best paper presented in the theme ‘reproductive biology, ecology and conservation at International Seminar on Gingers, KSCSTE- Malabar Botanical Gardens and Institute for Plant Sciences, Kozhikode, India.

• Nov 2022: New article on "Shining light on bulbils" is out on Bulb Garden Journal.

• Aug 2022: Aleena received DBT-CTEP Grant. Congratulations !

• Aug 2022: Anupama, Ritu and Rhuthuparna received the IAPT research grant. Congratulations!

• Aug 2022: Hemant joined the lab. Welcome!

• July 2022: Rhuthuparna received the EMREF grant for studying pollination in Gesneriaceae

• July 2022: Ritu received the CSIR travel grant to attend the ESEB conference in Czech Republic.

• July 2022: Aleena received the CSIR travel grant for attending Botany 2022

• July 2022: Aleena received financial support under FAAC scheme for attending ESEB conference in Czech Republic

• July 2022: Check out the 'Scientifically speaking' podcast featuring Vinita!

• July 2022: Prasanna, Aleena, Ajith, Sukhraj and Vinita are giving talks on Botany 2022. Check out the abstracts here

• June 2022: Aleena received the IAPT grant for studying the population genetics of genus Hedychium.

• May 2022: Ritu and Sukhraj received the European Society of Evolutionary Biology Equal opportunity congress attendance aid grant. Congratulations! 

• May 2022: Saket received the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Equal Opportunity Grant to attend ESACSEE conference in Canada. Congratulations!

• May 2022: Rhuthuparna received the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) Graduate Student Research Grant 2022. Congratulations! 

• May 2022: Prasanna received Student Convention Grant to attend Annual Gesneriad Society Convention, 2022. Congratulations!

• May 2022: Aleena received one of the Botanical Society of America (BSA) Developing Nations Travel Grants to BOTANY conference in Anchorage, Alaska. Congratulations!!

• March 2022: Dr. Vinita has been invited to become a Sectional Officer in the Tropical Biology section of the Botanical Society of America (BSA).

• Feb 2022 : Vinita has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the Elsevier journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution as an Associate Editor.

• Feb 2022 : Vinita has been elected as a council member in the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), an international body that is active in carrying out biological studies in the tropics.

• Dec 2021: Manuscript pre-print out now! Floral evolution and pollinator diversification in Hedychium J.Koenig (Zingiberaceae): one of Mr. Darwin’s tropical fantasies

• Oct 2021: SciCom article on Didymocarpus discoveries from India is out in Gesneriad magazine.

• Oct 2021: Ritu received the HSI Award For Botanical And Horticultural Research. Congratulations!

• Aug 2021: Kallol has won the best presentation award in the Ecology section of Botany 2021. Congratulations!

• July 2021: TrEE lab is at Botany 2021! Check out our presentations and posters.

• June 2021: CoviHawkes- AI-based covid infection rate prediction tool has been launched. TrEE lab will be using similar algorithms to predict patterns in ecology.

• June 2021: Kallol has received the Theoretical Ecology Section’s Registration Grant for the ESA Annual Meeting, 2021. Congratulations!

• May 2021: Ritu has received the Mary Sue Ittner Bulb Grant from the Pacific Bulb Society. Congratulations!

• Apr 2021: New paper published in Systematic Botany

• Nov 2020: Saket has received the INSPIRE fellowship by the DST. Congratulations!

• Nov 2020: Vinita has written an editorial in the Current Science

• Nov 2020: New paper published in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

• Sep 2020: Vinita was quoted in Science - 'Virtual scientific conferences open doors to researchers around the world'

• Jul-2020: Mongabay-India published an article on our work! Discoveries and rediscoveries: Stoneflowers in northeast India 

• Jul-2020: Click here to see all the entries for the Virtual conference - Botany 2020!

• Jun-2020: Prasanna has received the Elvin Mc Donal Research Endowment Fund grant from the gesneriad society. Congratulations!

• Jun-2020: Saket has received the 'Inlaks Ravi Sankaran programme' grant for ecology, conservation & field biology. Congratulations!

• Jun-2020: Manuscript pre-print out now! When to be a male? Role of resource-limitation and pollinators in determining gender in an andromonoecious spiderwort

• Jun-2020: New paper out soon: Species complex delimitations in the genus Hedychium (Zingiberaceae): A machine learning approach for discovery of clusters

• May-2020: New paper published: Rediscovery of four narrow endemic Didymocarpus species (Gesneriaceae) from Mizoram, India

• May-2020: Article on Indian honey bees need some love published in The Hindu

• May-2020: New paper published: Didymocarpus sinoindicus (Gesneriaceae), a new species from India and China

• Apr-2020: New paper titled Low‐cost FloPump for regulated air sampling of volatile organic compounds published

• Feb-2020: An article on  Preventing Plant Blindness  featuring Vinita Gowda published in IndiaBioscience

• Jan-2020: Saket received the Heliconia Society International student research grant for the year 2020. Congratulations!

• Jan-2020: Saket gave a talk and Agnes presented a poster at the Annual Biology Meet held at IISER Bhopal

• Dec-2019: Agnes gave a talk at the National Avian Symposium held at IISER Tirupati

• Nov-2019: Aleena, Saket and Ritu successfully completed their comprehensive exam

• Dec-2019: Agnes gave a talk titled 'Does matter matter? Assessing the utilization of anthropogenic materials in nest construction by birds' at the National Avian Symposium held at IISER Tirupati

• Oct-2019: Preeti, Saket and Vinita gave talks at the Tropical Pollination Biology Meeting held at IISER-TVM

• Oct-2019: Agnes presented a poster titled 'Life amidst debris: Utilization of anthropogenic material for nest construction by birds' at SCCS, Bengaluru

• Sep-2019: Aleena, Asawari, Prasanna, Rahul and Saket presented their work at the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation - Asia Pacific Chapter (ATBC-AP) meeting held at Sri Lanka

• Sep-2019: Ajith visited the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK where he went through Hedychium collections in major herbaria

• Jul-2019: Ajith and Preeti presented at the 'Botany 2019 - Sky Island and Dessert Seas' held at Tucson, Arizona, USA

• Jun-2019: Video on 'Speciation via Competition' by Saket, Preeti and Vinita is shortlisted for screening at evolution meeting as a part of the 8th annual evolutionary film festival, held in Providence, Rhode Island from June 21-25.

• Jun-2019: Ajith has been awarded a financial grant (International Travel Support Scheme) by the Science and Engineering Research Board (Department of Science and Technology, Government of India) to attend the Botany 2019 - Sky Island and Dessert Seas, at Tucson, Arizona, USA from 27th to 31st July 2019. Congratulations!

• May-2019: Ajith has been awarded the Sibbald trust grant to visit Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh. Congratulations!

• Apr-2019: The Pentagonian treelets: Amal , Asawari , Rahul , Susnata and Viraj (Master's students) successfully completed their thesis defence. Congratulations!

• Apr-2019: Ajith and Preeti have been selected to receive the ASPT travel grant to attend Botany-2019 in Tucson, USA. Congratulations!

• Mar-2019: Agnes and Rahul attended a workshop on 'Bioacoustics' at IISER Tirupati

• Feb-2019: Aleena and Saket attended 'Preparatory School on Population Genetics and Evolution' at ICTS, Bangalore.

• Jan-2019: Prasanna is visiting Dr. Möller's Lab at RBGE. Enjoy winter with Gesneriad colleagues.

• Jan-2019: Asawari won the best poster award at 'Understanding Behaviour' conference held at IISER, Kolkata. Congratulations!

• Jan-2019: Preeti presented her work at the Annual Biology Meeting of IISER, Bhopal. Amal, Saket and Susnata presented posters.

• Jan-2019: Agnes joined the lab for Ph.D. Welcome!

• August-2018: Saket and Ritu joined the lab for PhD. Welcome!

• July-2018: Saket won the best poster award at the 8th international Zingiberales symposium held at the Singapore Botanic Gardens during July 23 - 27, 2018. Congratulations!

• June-2018: Prasanna has been designated as a Nellie D. Sleeth Scholar for 2018 by the Gesneriad society with a financial award to support his research and herbarium visits

• May-2018: Saket, Azad, and Ankit graduated. Congratulations and best wishes!

• April-2018: Prasanna has received Sibbald Trust grant to visit RBGE.

• April-2018: Ajith, Preeti, and Saket have been awarded Tan Jiew Hoe Fellowship to attend 8th Zingiberales Symposium in Singapore.

• Apr-2018: New paper: Sex-biased miRNAs expression in the Budgerigars

• Mar-2018: The First publication from TrEE lab by Ajith got accepted! Congratulations, Ajith!

• Feb-2018: TrEE lab herbarium has been officially registered with the Index herbariorum! 

• Jan-2018: Aleena Xavier joined the lab for Ph.D. Welcome Aleena

• Ajith received a Field Research Grant from Heliconia Society International, USA; an amount of US$1000 towards field research (2016)

• Jan 2017: Saket Shrotri presented a poster in Annual Biology Meet 2017, IISER Bhopal

• Jan 2017: Preeti gave student talk at Annual Biology Meet 2017, IISER Bhopal

• Jan 2017: Ajith presented a poster titled “Name matters: resolving nomenclatural issues in Hedychium J. Koenig (Zingiberaceae)” at the Annual Biology Meet, IISER Bhopal

• Ajith received IAPT grant to present his work at XIX International Botanical Congress, Shenzhen, China

• Ajith presented an e-Poster on “Resolving the Coccineum complex in Hedychium using the molecular and morphometric data” at the XIX International Botanical Congress- Shenzhen, China (July 23-29, 2017)

• Ajith received the Outstanding Student Award at the XIX International Botanical Congress; US$ 1200 towards attending the conference, Shenzhen, China (2017)

• Preeti granted SRF position by CSIR, DST, India (August 2017)

• Ajith presented a poster on “Phylogeny and Biogeography of the genus Hedychium J. Koenig in the Northeast of India (Zingiberaceae)” at International Biogeography Society Special Meeting-Bangalore, India (September 26-28, 2017)

• Preeti has been awarded a student grant from Heliconia Society International to continue her fieldwork in the NE on gingers. 

• Dr. Madhav Gadgil visited TrEE lab (November 2017)

• Dr. Sutirth Dey, IISER Pune visited TrEE lab (December 2017)

• Dr. Sajay Sane, NCBS, Bangalore visited TrEE lab (December 2017)

• Saket Shrotri presented a poster in CEIB, IISER Pune

• Saket Shrotri will be presenting his 'tale of three morphs' at YETI 2018, to be held at Baroda, Gujarat