Had a fabulous summer course on Evolutionary Biology & Infectious Disease with school students organised by Ashoka_X

It was great to teach this pre-college Evolutionary Biology & Infectious Disease summer course for school students (7th-11th Grade) on "Darwinian Dilemmas of the Pandemic Century". Very new experience altogether. Enjoyed those open ended discussion/ ultra curiosity on why some animals become carriers of severe disease-causing viruses but do not fall ill themselves? How did …

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New BMC Biology paper on why sexes differ in immunity and Infection outcomes

In many animals, including humans, males and females respond differently to infection and disease. Why do they do so? Do they have different immunity? How do they evolve such responses? We try to find answers to these most fundamental questions about animal immunity in our recently accepted work in BMC Biology. Using seed beetles as …