Chandrakanth presented his work on how nutrition affects behaviour of organisms at Understanding Behaviour 2023 conference, India. For this, he was awarded the first runner up prize!

Congratulations! Your contribution at the early stage of the lab and the infectious all-smile attitude will always be remembered.

At ISEB3, Ruchitha presented her work on functional senescence in Drosophila populations selected for greater dispersal in their early life. Her experiments showed that dispersal evolution accelerates age-dependent deterioration of locomotor activity, an important dispersal associated trait in both males and females.

Indian National Science Academy (INSA) provides this award to young researchers as the highest recognition of its stature in the field of Science and Technology in India [read more].

Dr. Tung's citation for the award reads as follows:  

"Dr. Sudipta Tung has carried out original and creative work on population stability and evolution of dispersal. Using laboratory populations of Drosophila melanogaster, he has uncovered the behavioural, physiological and metabolic correlates of dispersal evolution. He has also investigated the efficacy of various control methods in stabilising the dynamics of real biological populations. He combines theory and classical assays of experimental evolution with modern physiological and metabolomics techniques, which is a very rare combination in the field."