News

2025

1. World's largest cavefish becomes the national cave animal of India. 

2. Manaswinin Parija received full fellowship for registration and travel to present her work on statistical patterns in transposon distribution in Teleost genomes at the EMBO Practical Course on "Transposable Elements in the Era of Data Science", which will be held from 12 – 16 May 2025 in Didcot, United Kingdom. 

3. Neelesh Dahanukar delivered a talk on "Hundred million years of evolution on the Indian subcontinent: a fisheye view" at the BioForum organized by Department of Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR, on 16 Jan 2025.

4. Tiger Shark exploitation paper covered in The Hindu (https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/study-finds-unsustainable-and-alarming-rates-of-tiger-shark-capture/article69285957.ece).

5. Neelesh Dahanukar delivers a talk "Evolutionary Games and Alternate Survival Strategies Among Transposons" at the EMBO Biology Across Scales symposium organized by Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, on 8th March 2025. 

6. Tania Ann Varghese presented a poster at the EMBO Biology Across Scales symposium organized by Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, on 8th March 2025. 

7. Neelesh Dahanukar delivers a CSIR Foundation Day lecture at CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New- Delhi on 3 April 2025.

8. Akanksha Bhardwaj presented a poster at the Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution Symposium organized by the Ashoka University 26 and 27 April 2025.

9. Neelesh Dahanukar delivered a talk at the Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution Symposium organized by the Ashoka University 26 and 27 April 2025.

10. Manaswini Parija delivered a talk as well as poster at the EMBO Practical Course on "Transposable Elements in the Era of Data Science", held from 12 – 16 May 2025 in Didcot, United Kingdom. 

11. Tania Ann Varghese delivered a talk at Evolution 2025, a 2 day virtual conference, organized by the American Society of Naturalists, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the Society for the Study of Evolution, May 29-30, 2025. 

12. Akanksha Bhardwaj delivered a talk at Evolution 2025, a 2 day virtual conference, organized by the American Society of Naturalists, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the Society for the Study of Evolution, May 29-30, 2025. 

2024

1. Manaswini Parija won the award for best oral presentation at the 1st virtual symposium organized by the Molecular Phylogenetic lab of the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences of the Polytechnic University of Marche (Ancona, Italy) on 26th of June, 2024.

2. Neelesh Dahanukar delivered talk on  “Evolution precedes taxonomy: overcoming misconceptions in molecular systematics” at the National Workshop on Advances in Fish Systematics: Morphological and Molecular Approaches. Organized by The Zoological Survey of India, Freshwater Biology Regional Centre, Hyderabad and ICAR- National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources on 18th January 2024.

3. Neelesh Dahanukar delivered online talk on "Statistics and data analysis for the perplexed" online lecture delivered at the "Workshop on scientific paper writing" organized by the Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala, on 25 May 2024.

4. Tania Ann Varghese presented a poster at the  Genomics India Conference, hosted by Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR and powered by Genotypic India, 1-3 Feb 2024.

5. Spandan Patra presented a poster at the  Genomics India Conference, hosted by Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR and powered by Genotypic India, 1-3 Feb 2024.

6. Devina Ghose presented a poster at the  Genomics India Conference, hosted by Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR and powered by Genotypic India, 1-3 Feb 2024.

2023

1. Neelesh Dahanukar joins Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science as Associate Editor for Phylogenetics and Paleobiology 

2. Discovery of the World's largest cavefish (Dahanukar et al. 2023) was covered in online edition of Science [https://www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-benin-bronze-s-source-supermassive-black-hole-and-aboriginal-knowledge]. 

3. News articles highlighting paper on the subterranean blind catfish (Raghavan et al. 2023) appeared in Mongabay [https://india.mongabay.com/2023/05/citizen-scientists-help-discover-a-blind-catfish-species-hidden-inside-keralas-aquifers/], PHYS.ORG [https://phys.org/news/2023-02-evolution-absolute darkness-fish-species.html] and several news papers including The Hindu and Sakal.

4. Neelesh Dahanukar conducted a module on “Statistical Analysis in Epigenomics” lecture and practical session conducted on 19th December 2023 in the ‘Investigating Biological Phenomena through an Epigenetics Lens’ a High-End Workshop funded by the Karyashala Scheme, DST, SERB, Government of India organized by Department of Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR, from 15th to 21st December 2023.

5. Neelesh Dahanukar delivered a talk on “Evolutionary games and the sociobiology of selfish genetic elements” lecture delivered on 20th December 2023 in the “Games in Evolutionary Dynamics” a Winter School funded by the DST, SERB, Government of India organized by Department of Mathematics, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR, from 18th to 23st December 2023.

2022

1. Neelesh Dahanukar joins PLoS ONE as Editorial Board Member

2. Neelesh Dahanukar joins BMC Zoology as Editorial Board Member

3. Manaswini Parija presents a poster on "Evolutionary dynamics of transposon domestication" at the SMBE Everywhere Global Symposium (Genetics of Adaptation:GS6) organized by SMBE and NCBS Bangalore on 22nd November 2022.

4. Tarani Jindal presents a poster "Molecular evolutionary analysis of subterranean loach Pangio bhujia endemic to southern India" at the SMBE Everywhere Global Symposium (Genetics of Adaptation:GS6) organized by SMBE and NCBS Bangalore on 22nd November 2022.