Lab News
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Sep 2024: News article covering the discovery of six species new to science of the dancing girl ginger Globba (Zingiberaceae) from West Bengal, Meghalaya, and Mizoram, India was published in Hubnews, The Hindu, Nagaland Post and EastMojo.
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June 2024: News article covering the discovery of new species Didymocarpus janakiae from Arunachal Pradesh, named after botanist Dr Janaki Ammal was published in the digital news outlets- EastMojo, Hubnews and newspaper- Mathrubhumi
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June 2024: News article covering our new geographical record of Microchirita karaketii was published in news outlets - EastMojo and Shillong Times.
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May 2024: Data article on characterization of SSR markers of Hedychium spicatum now available online in Data in Brief.
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May 2024: News article on the effect of anthropogenic waste materials in avian nest construction is published in the Newspaper Patrika.
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May 2024: Agnes recieved ABS 2024 Broadening Participation Award to attend the 61st Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society in Ontario, Canada.
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April 2024: Aleena Xavier received BSA travel award to attend XX International Botanical Congress in Madrid, Spain.
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April 2024: Ritu and Saket received IAPT travel award to attend XX International Botanical Congress in Madrid, Spain.
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March 2024: Ritu and Saket received the FAAC Grant to attend International Botanical Congress, Spain.
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March 2024: Agnes received ISBE travel grant to attend The International Society for Behavioral Ecology Conference (ISBE), Australia.
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March 2024: Aleena Xavier received the M.P. Young Scientist Award in the 39th M.P. Young Scientist Congress.
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March 2024: Hemant received the ESEB Godfrey Hewitt Mobility award.
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Feb 2023: Vinita has been elected as a fellow of the Linnaean Society of London. Congratulations!
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Dec 2023: Vinita has a new editorial out! Read it in Current Science.
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Protocol for Madhu Duniya 2023 workshop.
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Aug 2023: Rhuthuparna and Hemant received the Systematic research fund, funded by the Linnean Society of London and the Systematics Association.
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Aug 2023: Article titled 'Birds use waste to build nests in a Bhopal institute', published in Mongabay-India.
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July 2023: Aleena received the Gentry award for best talk at ATBC 2023.
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July 2023: Saket received ATREE award for best talk at ATBC 2023.
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July 2023: Sukhraj received the ATBC Navjyot Sodhi Award 2023.
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July 2023: Sukhraj won the Photo competition 2023 for the People and Nature at the ATBC.
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June 2023: Saket and Sukhraj received the IRALE sponsorship to attend the ATBC conference 2023.
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June 2023: Saket received an award for best talk award at Understanding Behaviour 2023.
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June 2023: Agnes and Rhuthuparna received the ATBC LOC grant.
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June 2023: Rhuthuparna and Anupama received ATBC Seed Grant 2023.
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June 2023: Rhuthuparna received Society for Tropical Ecology Student Research Grant, 2023.
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June 2023: Prasanna successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Prasanna!
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July 2023: IISER-Bhopal BSA Student Chapter is conducting a workshop at ATBC annual meeting 2023. Please register here
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May 2023: Rhuthuparna received Student Convention Grant to attend Annual Gesneriad Society Convention, 2023. Congratulations!
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May 2023: Sukhraj received ESEB Godfrey Hewitt Mobility award. Congratulations!
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May 2023: Anupama recieved the ASPT graduate student grant for 2023. Congratulations!
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May 2023: Anupama recieved the HSI research award.
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April 2023: News article titled, "Botanical gardens and life on earth" was published in The Hindu by Kamal Bawa and Vinita Gowda.
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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.
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Nov 2022: New article on "Shining light on bulbils" is out on Bulb Garden Journal.
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Aug 2022: Aleena received DBT-CTEP Grant. Congratulations !
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Aug 2022: Anupama, Ritu and Rhuthuparna received the IAPT research grant. Congratulations!
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Aug 2022: Hemant joined the lab. Welcome!
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July 2022: Rhuthuparna received the EMREF grant for studying pollination in Gesneriaceae.
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July 2022: Ritu received the CSIR travel grant to attend the ESEB conference in Czech Republic.
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July 2022: Aleena received the CSIR travel grant for attending Botany 2022.
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July 2022: Aleena received financial support under FAAC scheme for attending ESEB conference in Czech Republic
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July 2022: Check out the 'Scientifically speaking' podcast featuring Vinita!
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July 2022: Prasanna, Aleena, Ajith, Sukhraj and Vinita are giving talks on Botany 2022. Check out the abstracts here
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June 2022: Aleena received the IAPT grant for studying the population genetics of genus Hedychium.
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May 2022: Ritu and Sukhraj received the European Society of Evolutionary Biology Equal opportunity congress attendance aid grant. Congratulations!
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May 2022: Saket received the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Equal Opportunity Grant to attend ESACSEE conference in Canada. Congratulations!
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May 2022: Rhuthuparna received the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) Graduate Student Research Grant 2022. Congratulations!
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May 2022: Prasanna received Student Convention Grant to attend Annual Gesneriad Society Convention, 2022. Congratulations!
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May 2022: Aleena received one of the Botanical Society of America (BSA) Developing Nations Travel Grants to BOTANY conference in Anchorage, Alaska. Congratulations!
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March 2022: Dr. Vinita has been invited to become a Sectional Officer in the Tropical Biology section of the Botanical Society of America (BSA).
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Feb 2022 : Vinita has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the Elsevier journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution as an Associate Editor.
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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.
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Dec 2021: Manuscript pre-print out now! Floral evolution and pollinator diversification in Hedychium J.Koenig (Zingiberaceae): one of Mr. Darwin’s tropical fantasies
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Oct 2021: SciCom article on Didymocarpus discoveries from India is out in Gesneriad magazine.
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Oct 2021: Ritu received the HSI Award For Botanical And Horticultural Research. Congratulations!
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Aug 2021: Kallol has won the best presentation award in the Ecology section of Botany 2021. Congratulations!
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July 2021: TrEE lab is at Botany 2021! Check out our presentations and posters.
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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.
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June 2021: Kallol has received the Theoretical Ecology Section’s Registration Grant for the ESA Annual Meeting, 2021. Congratulations!
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May 2021: Ritu has received the Mary Sue Ittner Bulb Grant from the Pacific Bulb Society. Congratulations!
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Apr 2021: New paper published in Systematic Botany
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Nov 2020: Saket has received the INSPIRE fellowship by the DST. Congratulations!
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Nov 2020: Vinita has written an editorial in the Current Science
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Nov 2020: New paper published in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
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Sep 2020: Vinita was quoted in Science - 'Virtual scientific conferences open doors to researchers around the world'
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Jul-2020: Mongabay-India published an article on our work! Discoveries and rediscoveries: Stoneflowers in northeast India
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Jul-2020: Click here to see all the entries for the Virtual conference - Botany 2020!
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Jun-2020: Prasanna has received the Elvin Mc Donal Research Endowment Fund grant from the gesneriad society. Congratulations!
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Jun-2020: Saket has received the 'Inlaks Ravi Sankaran programme' grant for ecology, conservation & field biology. Congratulations!
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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
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Jun-2020: New paper out soon: Species complex delimitations in the genus Hedychium (Zingiberaceae): A machine learning approach for discovery of clusters
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May-2020: New paper published: Rediscovery of four narrow endemic Didymocarpus species (Gesneriaceae) from Mizoram, India
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May-2020: Article on Indian honey bees need some love published in The Hindu
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May-2020: New paper published: Didymocarpus sinoindicus (Gesneriaceae), a new species from India and China
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Apr-2020: New paper titled Low‐cost FloPump for regulated air sampling of volatile organic compounds published
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Feb-2020: An article on Preventing Plant Blindness featuring Vinita Gowda published in IndiaBioscience
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Jan-2020: Saket received the Heliconia Society International student research grant for the year 2020. Congratulations!
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Jan-2020: Saket gave a talk and Agnes presented a poster at the Annual Biology Meet held at IISER Bhopal
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Dec-2019: Agnes gave a talk at the National Avian Symposium held at IISER Tirupati
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Nov-2019: Aleena, Saket and Ritu successfully completed their comprehensive exam
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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
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Oct-2019: Preeti, Saket and Vinita gave talks at the Tropical Pollination Biology Meeting held at IISER-TVM
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Oct-2019: Agnes presented a poster titled 'Life amidst debris: Utilization of anthropogenic material for nest construction by birds' at SCCS, Bengaluru
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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
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Sep-2019: Ajith visited the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK where he went through Hedychium collections in major herbaria
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Jul-2019: Ajith and Preeti presented at the 'Botany 2019 - Sky Island and Dessert Seas' held at Tucson, Arizona, USA
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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.
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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!
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May-2019: Ajith has been awarded the Sibbald trust grant to visit Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh. Congratulations!
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Apr-2019: The Pentagonian treelets: Amal , Asawari , Rahul , Susnata and Viraj (Master's students) successfully completed their thesis defence. Congratulations!
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Apr-2019: Ajith and Preeti have been selected to receive the ASPT travel grant to attend Botany-2019 in Tucson, USA. Congratulations!
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Mar-2019: Agnes and Rahul attended a workshop on 'Bioacoustics' at IISER Tirupati
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Feb-2019: Aleena and Saket attended 'Preparatory School on Population Genetics and Evolution' at ICTS, Bangalore.
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Jan-2019: Prasanna is visiting Dr. Möller's Lab at RBGE. Enjoy winter with Gesneriad colleagues.
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Jan-2019: Asawari won the best poster award at 'Understanding Behaviour' conference held at IISER, Kolkata. Congratulations!
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Jan-2019: Preeti presented her work at the Annual Biology Meeting of IISER, Bhopal. Amal, Saket and Susnata presented posters.
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Jan-2019: Agnes joined the lab for Ph.D. Welcome!
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August-2018: Saket and Ritu joined the lab for PhD. Welcome!
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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!
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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
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May-2018: Saket, Azad, and Ankit graduated. Congratulations and best wishes!
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April-2018: Prasanna has received Sibbald Trust grant to visit RBGE.
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April-2018: Ajith, Preeti, and Saket have been awarded Tan Jiew Hoe Fellowship to attend 8th Zingiberales Symposium in Singapore.
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Apr-2018: New paper: Sex-biased miRNAs expression in the Budgerigars
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Mar-2018: The First publication from TrEE lab by Ajith got accepted! Congratulations, Ajith!
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Feb-2018: TrEE lab herbarium has been officially registered with the Index herbariorum!
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Jan-2018: Aleena Xavier joined the lab for Ph.D. Welcome Aleena
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Ajith received a Field Research Grant from Heliconia Society International, USA; an amount of US$1000 towards field research (2016)
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Jan 2017: Saket Shrotri presented a poster in Annual Biology Meet 2017, IISER Bhopal
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Jan 2017: Preeti gave student talk at Annual Biology Meet 2017, IISER Bhopal
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Jan 2017: Ajith presented a poster titled “Name matters: resolving nomenclatural issues in Hedychium J. Koenig (Zingiberaceae)” at the Annual Biology Meet, IISER Bhopal
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Ajith received IAPT grant to present his work at XIX International Botanical Congress, Shenzhen, China
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Ajith presented an e-Poster on “Resolving the Coccineum complex in Hedychium using the molecular and morphometric data” at the XIX International Botanical Congress- Shenzhen, China (July 23-29, 2017)
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Ajith received the Outstanding Student Award at the XIX International Botanical Congress; US$ 1200 towards attending the conference, Shenzhen, China (2017)
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Preeti granted SRF position by CSIR, DST, India (August 2017)
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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)
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Preeti has been awarded a student grant from Heliconia Society International to continue her fieldwork in the NE on gingers.
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Dr. Madhav Gadgil visited TrEE lab (November 2017)
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Dr. Sutirth Dey, IISER Pune visited TrEE lab (December 2017)
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Dr. Sajay Sane, NCBS, Bangalore visited TrEE lab (December 2017)
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Saket Shrotri presented a poster in CEIB, IISER Pune
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Saket Shrotri will be presenting his 'tale of three morphs' at YETI 2018, to be held at Baroda, Gujarat