Funding

Our current research has been generously funded by:

Research Grants:

8. Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat, 2025-2027

7. Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission, Department of Science & Technology, Govt of Gujarat; 2025-2028

6. UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Fund; 2024

5. Climate Change Department, Government of Gujarat; 2023-2025

4. Ahmedabad University 2022-25
(Interdisciplinary Programmes around Sustainable Systems and Living: Cities, Health and Climate Change)

3. SERB Core Research Grant 2019-2022

2. SERB-DST Ramanujan Fellowship 2018-2022 Core Research Grant 2019-2023
1. University Research Board- Ahmedabad University 2018-2021 (Startup Research Grant)

Conference Support:

Conference Support:

1. ANRF grant (ANRF/F/5660/2024-2025) for conducting a workshop: The Grand Challenges-Insect Decline, Causes, and Consequences. Date: 28-29 Nov 2024.

2. GSBTM grant (GSBTM/JD-HRD/FSA/2022-2023/00024448) for organizing the conference : Revolutionising Darwinian Synthesis: Fresh Perspectives and Future Challenges. Date: 9-11 Feb 2023  

3. SERB grant (SSY/2022/000965) for organizing the conference : Revolutionising Darwinian Synthesis: Fresh Perspectives and Future Challenges. 9-11 Feb 2023

Science Outreach Grants:

To Postdoc Dr. Harshad Mayekar

1. Science outreach grant from Society for the Study of Evolution SSE, USA in 2022

    Title: Taking-off with flies: what they tell us about evolution?

Awards & Fellowships:

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• "Certificate of Appreciation" from the Entomological Society of India, IARI, New Delhi, India. (2025)

• European Molecular Biology Organization, EMBO Fellowship, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK (2022)

• Chairman's Award for Research, Ahmedabad University-Ahmedabad, India (2021)

• Ramanujan Fellowship, SERB-DST, Government of India (2018-2023)

• The American Physiological Society Research Recognition Travel Award - Westminister. USA (2010)

• Visiting Scholar grant under Indo-Israel Cultural Exchange Program funded through Israel Government to visit the Institute of Evolution, The University of Haifa, ISRAEL (2007-2008).

• Riken Kobe Institute Center for Development Biology travel grant - Awaji Island, JAPAN (2007).

• Association for the study of animal behavior (ASAB) travel grant - Locarno, SWITZERLAND (2005).