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 …

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PhD position (Students with JRF only): Immunity, disease and climate changes

Can rapid environmental changes such as climate warming and food scarcity influence how organisms evolve immunity against new infections & disease? What is the genetic basis? If you are interested in such fundamental evolutionary questions and looking for activating your CSIR/ DBT/ICMR Fellowship; contact me for more information or apply here Our lab and projects …

New Preprint- Evolution of pathogen tolerance and emerging infections: A missing experimental paradigm

We are repeatedly warned against newer zoonotic diseases (transferred from non-human animals to humans) in future, resulting from our rapid insurgence into natural ecosystems. How/Why do these zoonotic infections arise? Where will they come next? Such understanding will be far from complete unless we start tracking myriad evolutionary interactions of immunity, ecology and life-history of …

Manasven gets into the Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Evolutionary Biology

Super excited & cannot be happier to share the news that Manasven Raina from 'Evolutionary Immunology lab' just received an offer from the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Evolutionary Biology (MEME) with full scholarship. He is among the first few students who joined Ashoka Biology and our lab in 2018. Teaming with Basabi and …

Boarded the YIM2021 Organising team

It is truly exciting to be a part of the #YIM2021 team with Karishma Kaushik (SPPU, Pune), Vasudharani Devanathan (IISER Tirupati), Smita Jain and Shantala Hari Dass (Indiabioscience). As always, we have an exciting line up of speakers and Mentors. Applications from Young Investigators are invited across diverse disciplines of Biology who are less than …

Applications Invited for a Junior Research Fellow and a Postdoctoral Scientist Position

Delighted to invite applications for a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) and a Postdoctoral Scientist position in an India Alliance-DBT/Wellcome Trust funded project at Ashoka University. The JRF and the postdoc hired for the project will participate in various experiments, combining experimental evolution of tractable insect models (e.g. fruit flies and beetles) with pathogenic infections to …

Open PhD Position to Study Evolutionary Dynamics of Infection and disease

Application deadline: 28th October 2020. Details: https://ashoka.edu.in/page/phd-bio-105

Ashoka University covers my Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate Fellowship award

Had a very nice chat with Ashoka University Media team on why and how this grant will help me to establish a novel research and training program in India. Find the full the story here  

Open positions in early 2021

We might advertise for PhD students, PostDocs, Project assistants soon. Keep watching this space. Also, see the following link 

Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship Award

I am delighted to share that our lab will be funded by a Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship Award for the next five years (starting from Jan 2021).