CV

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Other academic activities - 

• I serve as a hands-on instructor for Biostatistics: a user's perspective, a short-term course conducted semi-annually at IISER, Pune.

• I was also involved in the initial phase of setting up the Molecular Biology for Young Scientists (MBY) series of workshops at IISER, Pune.

• IISER-Pune encourages undergraduate students to do research projects as part of their coursework. I have mentored the following students for such research projects and for summer internships with Prof. Sutirth Dey : 

  1. Aarcha Thadi, 4th year BSMS (Spring 2019) - currently PhD student with Prof. Marlene Zuk at the University of Minnesota

  2. Akhila Mudunuri and Aditya Singh Bagri, 4th year BSMS (Fall 2019, jointly with Aarcha Thadi, masters student)

  3. Vineet Pandya, MSU Baroda (Summer 2019) - currently MS student at the University of Bonn, Germany

  4. Ruchira Basu, IISER-Mohali (Summer 2019)

  5. Sultan Nazir, 3rd year BSMS (Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021) - currently working on master's thesis at the University of Waterloo

  6. Akhila Mudunuri, master's student (Fall 2020 to Spring 2021) - currently part of the PhD program at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

  7. Pratik Joshi, Modern College, Pune (Fall 2021 to Spring 2022) - currently masters student at LMU, Germany

  8. Suryadeepto Nag and Shikhara Bhat, 4th year BSMS (Summer 2021 to Fall 2021)

  9. Raghav Sharma and Vasudha Kulkarni (Fall 2021, online projects)

  10. Swastik Padhy, Krishna Chaitanya Sattaru, Ruchitha BG,  3rd/4th year BSMS (Spring 2022, jointly with Anish Koner, fellow PhD student)

  11. Vidisha Hate, 3rd year BSMS (Spring 2022)

  12. Arkadeep Mandal, Ritavash Debnath, Shreya Mehra, Krishna Menon, Srivathsa Kurpad, Avani Kajarekar (IISER-TVM), Dhanush SS, Tenzin Dhasel, Passang Penpa, 2nd year BSMS (Summer 2022, jointly with Vibishan B)

  13. Akilan R, 3rd year BSMS (Fall 2022)

  14. Yangchen Lhamo, Joanrose JK (Summer 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023) - both current masters students at NCBS, Bengaluru, India

  15. Sarthak Saini and Yashvita Subramanian (IISER-Pune), Sohum Ranade, IISER-Bhopal (Summer 2023, jointly with Anish Koner, fellow PhD student)

Teaching assistantship - 

1. IISER Pune course "BIO 201: Introduction to Ecology and Evolution" by Prof. Sutirth Dey (Fall 2019, Fall 2020)

2. IISER Pune course “BIO 202: Introductory Biology IV: Biology of Systems” by Prof. Aurnab Ghose (Spring 2020) 

Society Membership - 

1. Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists

2. Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE)

Peer review work for scientific journals - 

1. Evolution

Poster presentation - 

1. October 2019: Poster at ISEB1 - Celebrating Ecology and Evolution in India by Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists (ISEB) at JNCASR, Bangalore, India 

2. December 2019: Poster at 5th Asia Pacific Drosophila Research Conference (APDRC5) and the 4th Indian Drosophila Research Conference (InDRC4) organized by IISER Pune, India

3. July 2023: Poster at Max Planck Partner Group Workshop on "Molecular and Chemical Ecology of Plant Biotic Interactions" at IISER Pune, India

4. December 2023: Poster at The Indian Drosophila Research Conference (InDRC) at IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India

Talks - 

1. August 2022: Biology department talk at IISER Pune - "Consequences of disrupting Drosophila-microbe symbiosis over short and long timescales"

2. June 2024: Talk as a part of the Workshop on Climate Resilience of Holobionts at IISER-Pune (co-organized by IISER-Pune, Imperial College-London, and Ahmedabad University) - "Dismantling the Drosophila holobiont"