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Name: Abhishek Mishra
Email: mishrabhishek1@outlook.com, abhindra92@gmail.com, abhishek.mishra@wisc.edu
Research
Research
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2023 -) with Dr. Matthew Anderson at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Postdoctoral Scholar (2021 - 2023) with Dr. Matthew Anderson at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Education
Education
PhD (2015 - 2020) with Prof. Sutirth Dey at IISER Pune, India.
Integrated BS and MS (2010 - 2015) from IISER Pune, India.
Publications
Publications
Mishra, A, Tung, S, Sruti, VRS, Shreenidhi, PM, & Dey, S (2022). Desiccation stress as a cause and cost of dispersal in Drosophila melanogaster. The American Naturalist, 199, E111-E123.
Mishra, A, Forche, A, & Anderson, MZ (2021). Parasexuality of Candida species. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 11, 1236.
Mishra, A, Chakraborty, PP, & Dey, S (2020). Dispersal evolution diminishes the negative density dependence in dispersal. Evolution, 74, 2149-2157.
Mishra, A, Tung, S, Sruti, VRS, Srivathsa, S, & Dey, S (2020). Mate-finding dispersal reduces local mate limitation and sex bias in dispersal. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89, 2089-2098.
Mishra, A, Tung, S, Sruti, VRS, Sadiq, MA, Srivathsa, S, & Dey, S (2018). Pre‐dispersal context and presence of opposite sex modulate density dependence and sex bias of dispersal. Oikos, 127, 1596-1604.
Mishra, A*, Tung, S*, Shreenidhi, PM, Sadiq, MA, Sruti, VRS., Chakraborty, PP, & Dey, S (2018). Sex differences in dispersal syndromes are modulated by environment and evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 373, 20170428. *Equal contribution
Tung, S, Mishra, A, Gogna, N, Sadiq, MA, Shreenidhi, PM, Sruti, VRS, Dorai, K, & Dey, S (2018). Evolution of dispersal syndrome and its corresponding metabolomic changes. Evolution, 72, 1890-1903.
Tung, S, Mishra, A, Shreenidhi, PM, Sadiq, MA, Joshi, S, Sruti, VRS, & Dey, S (2018). Simultaneous evolution of multiple dispersal components and kernel. Oikos, 127, 34-44.
Tung, S, Mishra, A, & Dey, S (2016). Simultaneous enhancement of multiple stability properties using two-parameter control methods in Drosophila melanogaster. Ecological Complexity, 26, 128-136.
Tung, S, Mishra, A, & Dey, S (2016). Stabilizing the dynamics of laboratory populations of Drosophila melanogaster through upper and lower limiter controls. Ecological Complexity, 25, 18-25.
Tung, S, Mishra, A, & Dey, S (2014). A comparison of six methods for stabilizing population dynamics. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 356, 163-173.
Fellowships, grants, and awards
Fellowships, grants, and awards
President’s Postdoctoral Scholarship at The Ohio State University (2021– 2023)
IISER Pune Gold Medal and Xytel Best PhD Thesis Award in Biology (2021)
Best Poster Award (sponsored by Journal of Genetics) at ‘ISEB1: Celebrating Ecology and Evolution in India’ (2019)
European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) Travel Grant (€ 1000) for Evolution 2018: II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology (2018)
British Ecological Society (BES) Travel Grant (£ 1000) for Ecology Across Borders: Joint Annual Meeting (2017)
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Junior Research Fellowship (2015–2020)
All India Rank: 1 in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE): Ecology and Evolution (2015)
All India Rank: 30 in the National Eligibility Test (NET) for JRF and Lectureship, Life Sciences (2014)
Academic Excellence Award of IISER Pune (Fall 2013)
Indian Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellowship (2012)
KVPY Fellowship from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2011–2015)
INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2010–2011)
Gold Medal in the Indian National Biology Olympiad (INBO) (2010)
All India Rank: 20 in the All India Senior School Certificate Examination (AISSCE) (2010)
National Talent Search (NTS) Scholarship from National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT), India (2008–2010)
Workshops and conferences
Workshops and conferences
Presented a talk in Midwest Neglected Infectious Diseases Meeting (MNID) 2022 at the University of Notre Dame, IN (12–13 Aug 2022).
Participant in ‘Beyond Phylogenies: Enriching Analyses and Visualizations of Genomic Variants Codeathon’ organized by National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) (25–28 Jul 2022).
Presented an invited virtual talk in Ecology Evolution & Behavior (EEB) seminar at the University of Virginia (5 Apr 2022).
Alumnus of ‘Molecular Mycology: Current Approaches to Fungal Pathogenesis (MOMY 2021)’ research training course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (U Chicago), Woods Hole, MA, USA (14–29 Aug 2021)
Presented a talk in '5th Asia Pacific Drosophila Research Conference (APDRC5)' at Pune, India (6–10 Jan 2020).
Presented a talk in 'ISEB2: Indo-Swiss Meeting on Evolutionary Biology' at Bengaluru, India (12–14 Dec 2019).
Presented a poster in ‘ISEB1: Celebrating Ecology and Evolution in India’, the inaugural conference of Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists (ISEB) at Bengaluru, India (24–25 Oct 2019).
Presented a poster in ‘Evolution 2018: II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology’ at Montpellier, France (19–22 Aug 2018).
Presented a poster in 'Ecology Across Borders: Joint Annual Meeting 2017' at Ghent, Belgium (11–14 Dec 2017).
Presented a talk in ‘Dispersal-Connecting Networks 2017’ EVENET Symposium at Ghent University, Belgium (10 Dec 2017).
Presented posters during the Annual Biology Department Seminar (Bioconclave) at IISER Pune, India (2016, 2017, and 2018).
Presented a poster and a short talk in the ‘Winter School for Quantitative Systems Biology 2015’ at ICTS, Bengaluru, India (5–19 Dec 2015).
Presented a talk in the 'National Conference on Ethology and Evolution (39th Annual Meeting of Ethological Society of India)' at IISER Mohali, India (30 Oct–1 Nov 2015).
Participant in the ‘ICTS: Advances in Mathematical Biology’ Program at IISER Pune, India (7–16 Dec 2014).
Participant in the ‘Hippocampus: From Synapses to Behaviour’ symposium at IISER Pune, India (1–3 Dec 2013).
Presented a poster at the ‘Asian Science Camp 2011’, held at Daejeon, South Korea (7–13 Aug 2011).
Participant in the ‘Orientation-cum-Selection Camp for International Biology Olympiad 2010’ at HBCSE, Mumbai, India (3–11 Jun 2010).
Service
Service
Postdoctoral representative in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee of the Department of Microbiology at The Ohio State University (2021 - 2023).
Teaching
Teaching
Instructor for OSU Center for Life Science Education (CLSE) course “BIO 1101: Introductory Biology” (Spring 2022) and “BIO 1113: Energy Transfer & Development” (Fall 2022, Spring 2023).
Instructor for the IISER Pune Short-Term Course “Biostatistics: a user’s perspective” (2018, 2019).
Teaching Assistant for IISER Pune Course “BIO 201: Introduction to Ecology and Evolution” (Fall 2016, Fall 2017).
Instructor for remedial (tutorial) classes of IISER Pune Course “BIO 201: Introduction to Ecology and Evolution” (Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017).
Hands-on instructor for IISER Winter School “Foundations of Ecology and Evolution” (15–28 Dec 2014).
Mentoring
Mentoring
With my PhD supervisor, Prof. Sutirth Dey, I have co-mentored 7 students for their Master’s thesis project, and multiple (> 30) undergraduate students for their summer and semester projects.
With my Postdoc advisor, Dr. Matt Anderson, I have co-mentored 2 undergraduate students for their semester and summer research projects.
External peer reviewer
External peer reviewer
Invited peer reviewer for the following scientific journals:
BMC Molecular and Cell Biology, Scientific Reports, Evolution, Behavioral Ecology, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Open Life Sciences
Computational skills
Computational skills
Conversant in Python, R, and Bash
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