Amitabh: Talks

Here are links to videos of some talks:

This lecture, which is somewhat long, might be helpful if you are considering joining our lab. It lays out in some detail the conceptual underpinnings of the view of micro-evolutionary change that is the foundation of our experimental work. Another version of this lecture, given almost 4 years later.

This one, on the other hand, is more of a background lecture about evolution as a major intellectual advance in the history of human thought.

And this is a lecture covering the history of evolutionary biology between Darwin and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis.

This Hindi lecture from 2018 is essentially about holistic versus reductionist approaches in biology, and uses Ayurveda as an example of holistic bio-medical thinking.

This is a talk arguing for the "poets' way of doing science", delivered as a Mentor Talk at the Young Investigators Meeting in Guwahati in March 2019.

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7-2-96: Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

14-2-96: Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

16-2-96: Division of Entomology & Nematology, Indian Institute of Horticultural

Research, Hessaraghatta, Bangalore.

7-10-96: DST sponsored workshop on Methods in Behavioural Ecology,

organised by Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science and

Animal Behaviour Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific

Research, Bangalore.

2-11-96: Symposium on Evolutionary Ecology, at 62nd Annual Meeting, Indian 

Academy of Sciences, Jodhpur.

16-11-96: I.C.A.R. Project Directorate of Biological Control, Bangalore.

9-1-97: National Seminar on Modelling Biological Systems: Concepts and

Applications, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad.

27-2-97: National Science Day, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

22-3-97: Plenary Talk, Fourth Drosophila Meeting, Univ. of Mysore, Mysore.

16-7-97: Twentieth Annual Science Festival, Bangalore Science Forum, 

Bangalore.

14-10-97: Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation, 

Bangalore.

25-11-97: Symposium on Indian Biology in the Year 2000 and Beyond 

(IBY2K), Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad.

2-3-98: Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad.

19-6-98: Mathematics Nurture Programme, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.

8-7-98: International Discussion Meeting on Frontiers of Genetics and 

Development, organised by Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, Indian 

Institute of Science and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced 

Scientific Research, Bangalore.

3-3-99: Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

8-7-99: JNCASR sponsored workshop on Methods in Behavioural Ecology, 

organized at Univ. of Mysore, Mysore.

8-8-99: Symposium on Selected Studies on Behavioural Ecology in India, at the 

XXVI International Ethological Conference, Bangalore.

10-9-99: Sunil Nevaskar & Jaideep Naik Memorial Lecture, Abasaheb Garware 

College, Pune.

10-9-99: Department of Zoology, University of Pune, Pune.

21-10-99: X Annual Faculty Meeting, JNCASR, Bangalore.

15-12-99: JNCASR sponsored Frontier Lectures in Biology, organized at 

Mangalore University, Mangalore.

16-12-99: JNCASR sponsored Frontier Lectures in Biology, organized at 

Mangalore University, Mangalore.

11-2-2000: Bangalore Association for Science Education, Bangalore.

3-5-2000: National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.

26-5-2000: Bangalore Association for Science Education, Bangalore.

12-6-2000: DST/IAS sponsored Refresher Course in Animal Sciences, organized 

at Karnatak University, Dharwad.

13-6-2000: DST/IAS sponsored Refresher Course in Animal Sciences, organized 

at Karnatak University, Dharwad.

14-6-2000: DST/IAS sponsored Refresher Course in Animal Sciences, organized 

at Karnatak University, Dharwad.

16-8-2000: First Prof. C. N. R. Rao Award Oration, JNCASR, Bangalore.

3-10-2000: UGC sponsored Refresher Course in Life Sciences, organized at 

Gulbarga University, Gulbarga.

5-10-2000: UGC sponsored Refresher Course in Life Sciences, organized at 

Gulbarga University, Gulbarga.

10-10-2000: Basaweshvara Hospital and Medical College, Gulbarga.

28-4-2001: Les Treilles Conference on Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics- 

Drosophila in the Post-Genome Era, Les Treilles, France.

30-4-2001: Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biologia Evolutiva, 

Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.

2-5-2001: Departament de Genetica i de Microbiologia, Universitat Autonoma de 

Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

16-5-2001: Workshop on Principles of Social Evolution, Wissenschaftskolleg zu 

Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

5-6-2001: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

16-7-2001: Institute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences, Universiteit Leiden,

Leiden, The Netherlands.

18-7-2001: C.N.R.S. Laboratory for Population Genetics and Evolution, Gif-sur-

Yvette, France.

10-9-2001: Indian Academy of Sciences sponsored Refresher Course on Genetics 

and Evolution, organized at University of Mysore, Mysore.

11-9-2001: Indian Academy of Sciences sponsored Refresher Course on Genetics 

and Evolution, organized at University of Mysore, Mysore.

30-9-2001: Bangalore Association for Science Education, Bangalore.

15-12-2001: St. Joseph's College, Bangalore.

22-12-2001: DST sponsored workshop on Methods in Behavioural Ecology,

organized at Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, 

Bangalore.

24-12-2001: DST sponsored workshop on Methods in Behavioural Ecology, 

organized at Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, 

Bangalore.

25-2-2002: Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South 

Campus, Delhi.

26-2-2002: School of Environmental Sciences, Delhi University, Delhi.

9-4-2002: University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore.

25-5-2002: Bangalore Association for Science Education, Bangalore.

18-6-2002: One day symposium on Evolutionary Biology, JNCASR, Bangalore.

6-7-2002: 13th Mid Year Meeting, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.

30-8-2002: Workshop on Adaptation and Time, JNCASR, Bangalore.

18-9-2002: National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.

11-10-2002: Seminar on The History of Ideas, organized by Raman Research 

Institute and the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.

23-10-2002: Lecture Programme in Evolutionary & Organismal Biology, 

sponsored by Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and 

Delhi University, Delhi.

24-10-2002: Lecture Programme in Evolutionary & Organismal Biology, 

sponsored by Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and 

Delhi University, Delhi.

25-10-2002: Department of Zoology, Hindu College, Delhi University, Delhi.

16-12-2002: Meeting of Bangalore Chapter of the National Academy of Sciences, 

India.

4-1-2003: Bangalore Association for Science Education, Bangalore.

18-1-2003: Bangalore Association for Science Education, Bangalore.

20-1-2003: Frontier Lectures in Biology, sponsored by Indian Academy of 

Sciences, organized at University of Mysore.

29-8-2003: Annual Day, Division of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of

Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

24-9-2003: Seminar on The Future of the Sciences, NMKRV College for Women, 

Bangalore.

6-11-2003: Special Lecture at National Symposium on Frontier Areas of 

Entomological Research, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi.

5-12-2003: Lectures in History and Philosophy of Science, TIFR National Centre 

for Biological Sciences, Bangalore.

12-1-2004: DST sponsored workshop on Methods in Behavioural Ecology, 

organised by Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, 

Bangalore.

15-1-2004: Symposium on DNA, International Meeting on Parasitology, 

Bangalore University, Bangalore. 

20-1-2004: DST sponsored workshop on Methods in Behavioural Ecology, 

organised by Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, 

Bangalore.

31-1-2004: One-day Symposium on Bugs and Biology, organised by Department 

of Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.

25-2-2004: One-day Symposium on Deep Roots, Open Skies: New Biology in 

India, organized by National Institute of Immunology, Delhi.

12-5-2004: One-day Workshop on Mathematical Modelling in Biotechnology, 

organized by M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore.

14-10-2004: Seminar on Genetics: The Expanding Horizon, organised on the 20th 

Anniversary of the foundation of the Department of Genetics, Delhi University South Campus.

15-10-2004: Department of Environmental Biology, Delhi University, Delhi. 

24-1-2005: Mahabaleshwar Workshop on The Evolution of Developmental 

Mechanisms, organized by the Division of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute 

of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

25-1-2005: Mahabaleshwar Workshop on The Evolution of Developmental 

Mechanisms, organized by the Division of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute 

of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

12-4-2005: Vignana Jignase, organized by Ninasam and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre 

for Advanced Scientific Research, at Heggodu.

28-5-2005: Indian Academy of Sciences sponsored Refresher Course on 

Interdisciplinary Approaches in Biology, organized at Centre for Cellular and 

Molecular Biology, Hyderabad.

16-1-2006: DST sponsored workshop on Methods in Behavioural Ecology, 

organised by Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, 

Bangalore.

17-6-2006: Indian Academy of Sciences sponsored Workshop on Excitements in 

Computational Physical and Bio-Sciences, organized at I.I.I.T., Hyderabad.

18-7-2006: Indian Academy of Sciences sponsored Refresher Course on 

Phylogenetic Biology, organized at Mysore University, Mysore.

20-1-2007: Karnataka Academy of Science and Engineering sponsored Lecture 

Series on Life Sciences, organized at Gulbarga University, Gulbarga.

24-3-2007: Zoological Society of India sponsored National Seminar on 

Dimsnsions in Zoological Research in Human Welfare, organized at 

Department of Zoology, Calcutta University, Kolkata.

28-3-2007: Special Lecture Series in Life Sciences, organized by the Department 

of Applied Genetics, Bangalore University.

18-9-2007: Lectures in Modern Biology, at National Institute of Immunology, 

New Delhi.

28-9-2007: Sri Venkateshwara College, University of Delhi, New Delhi.

28-9-2007: School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

27-10-2007: Department of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and 

Research, Pune.

23-11-2007: Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, New Delhi.

27-11-2007: School of Information Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New 

Delhi.

19-12-2007: International discussion meeting on Phenotypic and Developmental 

Plasticity, Estuary Island, Trivandrum.

21-2-2008: Institute for Microbial Technology, Chandigarh.

22, 23-2-2008: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali.

13 to 15-3-2008: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata.

12-4-2008: DST Unit on Genetics & Evolution, University of Mysore.

15-5-2008: Bangalore Chapter of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 

Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulations, Bangalore.

20-8-2008: Plenary talk, First Student Meet on Evolution, Ecology and 

Conservation, TIFR-National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore.

27-8-2008: IISER Colloquium, Indian Institute of Science Education and 

Research, Pune.

28, 29-8-2008: Department of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and 

Research, Pune.

17-9-2008: IISER Colloquium, Indian Institute of Science Education and 

Research, Mohali.

18-9-2008: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali.

22-10-2008: TIFR Colloquium, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

17-12-2008: ESS seminar at Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of 

Science, Bangalore.

19-12-2008: Worskhop on Mathematical Biology, Pre-ICM International 

Convention on Mathematical Sciences, Dept. of Mathematics, Delhi 

University, Delhi.

12-2-2009: Indian Academy of Sciences sponsored Workshop on Evolutionary 

Biology, organized at Abasaheb Garware College, Pune.

12-2-2009: Darwin’s 200th Birth Anniversary Celebration, Indian Institute of 

Science Education and Research, Pune.

27, 28-2-2009: Department of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and 

Research, Mohali.

21-5-2009: Darwin Bicentennial Lecture Series, Molecular and Cellular Biology 

Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

26-5-2009: Darwin’s 200th Birth Anniversary Celebration Symposium, 

Department of Zoology, University of Mysore, Mysore.

28-5-2009: Bangalore Association for Science Education, Bangalore.

14-9-2009: Darwinism: A Sesquicentennial Celebration, Karnatak University, 

Dharwad.

7, 8, 9-10-2009: DST sponsored Workshop on Quantitative Analysis and 

Modelling in Animal Sciences, Pune.

16-11-2009: British Council sponsored international conference on Darwin’s 

Living Legacy, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt.

24-11-2009: JNCASR Annual Faculty Meeting, Bangalore.

2-12-2009: Indian Academy of Sciences sponsored International Discussion 

Meeting on Molecular Evolution, Orange County, Coorg.

11-2-2010: Asiatic Society sponsored International Seminar on Darwin and 

Human Evolution, Kolkata.

17-2-2010: IISER Colloquium, Indian Institute of Science Education and 

Research, Mohali.

11-7-2010: IISc Mathematics Initiative sponsored International Conference on 

Mathematical Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

20-11-2010: Plenary talk, DST sponsored Sixth Drosophila Meeting, University of 

Mysore, Mysore.

10-2-2011: Indian Academy of Sciences sponsored BioManthan, MES College, 

Bangalore.

9-4-2011: MBU Day, Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, 

Bangalore.

5-7-2011: IISc Mathematics Initiative sponsored International Conference on 

Mathematical Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

9-7-2013: IISER Mohali and National Mathematics Initiative sponsored 

Workshop on Non-Linear Dynamics in Biology, Indian Institute of Science, 

Bangalore.

11-12-2013: Seminar on Tree of Life, organized by the three science academies at 

Jai Hind College, Mumbai.

1-2-2014: Discussion Meeting on Modern Biology, organized by the three science 

academies at Christ University, Bangalore.

15-2-2014: School and Discussion Meeting on Population Genetics and 

Evolution, organized by ICTP and NCBS at Bangalore.

23-2-2014: Discussion Meeting on the Foundations of Evolutionary Theory,

supported by the Indian Academy of Sciences, at Coorg.

17-12-2014: Workshop on Quantitative Biology sponsored by the Society of

Biological Chemists (India) and organized by ILS at Bhubaneswar.

18-12-2014: J.B.S. Haldane Memorial Symposium on Evolutionary Biology 

sponsored by the Society of Biological Chemists (India) and organized by

NISER at Bhubaneswar.

19-12-2014: Inspire Internship Programme sponsored by DST and organized by

KIIT University at Bhubaneswar.

22-12-2014 to 27-12-2014: Winter School on Foundations of Ecology and

Evolution organized by IISER Pune and IISER Mohali at Pune.

8-1-2015: 11th UGC-NRC Workshop on Teaching and Learning Genetics with

Drosophila, held at I.I.Sc., Bangalore.

27-2-2015: IISER Thiruvananthapuram.

13-4-2015: Discussion Meeting on the Foundations of Biology, organized by

IISER Pune at Pune.

22-5-2015: Bangalore Association for Science Education, Bangalore.

12-6-2015: Special Lecture for Summer Research Fellows, Indian Academy of

Sciences, Bangalore.

27-8-2015: Centre for Ecological Sciences, I.I.Sc., Bangalore.

7-9-2015: Program on Mathematical Biology, organized by NNMCB and

JNCASR at JNCASR, Bangalore.

10-9-2015: Program on Mathematical Biology, organized by NNMCB and

JNCASR at JNCASR, Bangalore.

31-10-2015: Plenary Talk, Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society of India,

organized by IISER, Mohali.

4-12-2015: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

4-12-2015: IISER, Kolkata.

5-12-2015: Symposium on Frontiers in Modern Biology, organized by IISER

Kolkata.

17-12-2015: Plenary talk, National Research Scholars in Biology Meeting,

organized by ACTREC, Navi Mumbai.

23-6-2016: Fourth NCBS Simons Monsoon School, at NCBS, Bangalore.

4-11-2016: Hindi talk on "Biology in the 21st century"at IISER Bhopal, organized by the Academy Trust.

6-11-2016: Special Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences, at Bhopal.

15-12-2016 to 17-12-2016: Winter School on Foundations of Ecology and

Evolution organized by IISER Pune and IISER Mohali at Mohali.

21-1-2017: Science Academies' Refresher Course for College Teachers on

Genetics and Molecular Biology, organized at I.I.Sc., Bengaluru.

25-2-2017: Discussion Meeting on Foundations of Biology, supported by the

Indian Academy of Sciences, at Coorg.

6-3-2017: Symposium on Genotype-Environment Interactions in Disease,

Development and Evolution, organized by Dept. of Zoology, BHU, Varanasi.

5-5-2017: IISER Pune.

24-6-2017: Fifth NCBS Simons Monsoon School, at NCBS, Bengaluru.

9-10-2017: ICTS Colloquium, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences,

Bengaluru.

26-10-2017: Keynote Address, International Conference on Zoological Sciences,

organized by Dept. of Zoology & Environmental Science, Punjabi University,

Patiala.

4-12-2017: Two lectures at the Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology,

International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru.

6-12-2017: Third Indian Drosophila Meeting, IISER Bhopal.

8-12-2017: 87th Annual Session and Symposium on ‘Basic research: its Role in

National Development’, organized by National Academy of Sciences, India, at

Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune.

7-2-2018: Prof. Har Swaroop Memorial Award Lecture of INSA, organized at

Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc., Bengaluru.

28-2-2018: National Science Day symposium, organized by IASc., INSA and

Delhi University, at INSA, New Delhi.

26-5-2018: Summer Course in Biology, organized by the Jawaharlal Nehru

Planetarium, Bengaluru. 

11-8-2018: One Day Lecture Series in Biology, organized by the Academy Trust,

at Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru.

19-9-2018: Indo Swiss Collaboration Primer on Ecology and Evolution, University of

Zurich, Irchel Campus.

2-11-2018: Hindi talk on "What is Biology" at Banaras Hindu University, organized by the Academy Trust.

15-12-2018: Hindi Talk on  "Ayurveda and Personalized Medicine" at NCBS, Bengaluru, organized by Mandram and the Bengaluru Biosciences Cluster.

29-1-2019: Inaugural Address at the XVIth Teacher Festival, organized by the Karnataka Chapter of the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti at Town Hall, Mysuru.

7-3-2019: "Mentor Talk" at Young Investigators' Meeting, organized by India BioScience at Guwahati.

12-3-2019: Seven lectures at the first SERB-sponsored School in Evolutionary Biology, held at JNCASR, Bengaluru.

5-4-2019: Speaker at the NALANDA, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad.

23-5-2019: Bio-REAP Course Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bengaluru.

2-7-2019: Forty Second Annual Science Festival, Bengaluru Science Forum, Bengaluru.

31-8-2019: Invited Talk at Symposium entitled ‘Culture of Reason’, organized by Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti at IISc, Bengaluru, on National Scientific Temper Day.

30-9-2019: Symposium on Genetics and Evolution, organized by the Journal of  Genetics, Ashoka University, Sonipat.

18-10-2019: One-day Workshop on Teaching and Studying Evolution, at Cotton University, Guwahati.

19-10-2019: Invited Talk at Handique Girls’ College, Guwahati.

25-10-2019: ISEB1: Celebrating Ecology and Evolution in India, at JNCASR, Bengaluru.

13-11-2019: Faculty Talk at Annual Faculty Meeting, JNCASR, Bengaluru.

7-12-2019: Inaugural Keynote Talk at Bangalore Science & Technology Fair - EPISTEME 2019, organized by Experient Labs at Infosys Campus, Bengaluru. 

9-1-2020: Invited Talk at 5th Asia-Pacific Drosophila Research Conference, organized at IISER, Pune.

24-1-2020: First Pale Blue Dot – IIT Palakkad Public Lecture, Palakkad.

13-2-2020: Public Lecture in the CSIR-CFTRI ‘Future India’ Talks series, at CFTRI, Mysuru.

25-2-2020: IISc Bioseminar, organized by Division of Biological Sciences.

29-2-2020: Discussion Meeting on the Foundations of Biology, organized at Ashoka University, Sonipat.

7-3-2020: One-day ‘Symposium on Evolutionary Biology’, organized at IIT Bombay.

7-6-2020: Hindi webinar on ‘Evolutionary and Organismal Biology’ aimed at school and college students, organized by The Academy Trust and DST-Rajasthan.

13-6-2020: Webinar on ‘Evolutionary biology in the lab and beyond’, aimed at PG students, organized by Dept. of Zoology and Environmental Science, Punjabi University, Patiala.

8-8-2020: Online Panel Discussion on ‘The Importance of the Study of Evolution’, organized by India March for Science, Karnataka Chapter.

10-11-2020: Talk on ‘Scientists’ Responsibility towards Society’ in an Online Panel Discussion on the occasion of Science Day, organized by INYAS and DST-Rajasthan.

11-11-2020: Online Panel Discussion on ‘Good Science with Small Money’, organized by Ahmedabad University.

18-11-2020: Online talk on ‘Why Evolution is Central to Both Biology and Our Lives’, at the Centennial Celebrations of Lucknow University.

27-11-2020: Online talk on ‘Mechanism in Biology: Holy Grail or Golden Deer?’ at the In-House Symposium of JNCASR.

5-12-2020: Online talk to school students and teachers on the basic concepts of evolutionary biology as part of a 17-session long program on ‘COVID19-Themed Education’, organized by the Agastya International Foundation.

10-12-2020: Online talk at two-day Seminar on ‘Evolution and Adaptation: Current Scenario’, organized by GITAM (deemed to be a University), Visakhapatnam.

6-2-2021: Online talk to school students and teachers on the basic concepts of evolutionary biology as part of a 17-session long program on ‘COVID19-Themed Education’, organized by the Agastya International Foundation.

12-2-2021: Online talk on 'Evolutionary biology in the lab, and beyond' as part of the Darwin Day celebrations, organized by INSTUCEN Trust, Mumbai.

19-2-2021: Online talk on 'Evolution of plastic versus hard-wired feeding rates under crowding in Drosophila melanogaster' at the "International Conference on recent advances in Genetics and Genomics" organized by Dept. of Studies in Genetics and Genomics, University of Mysore.

21-2-2021: Online talk to school students and teachers on the basic concepts of evolutionary biology as part of a 17-session long program on ‘COVID19-Themed Education’, organized by the Agastya International Foundation.

27-2-2021: Online talk on 'Why evolution is central to both biology and our lives' at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh, as part of the Biology Seminar Series, 2021.

2-3-2021: Online talk on ‘Evolutionary Biology in the Laboratory, and Beyond’ at a National Seminar on "Biological Evolution: History and Processes", organized by the Department of Botany, Govt. Swami Vivekanand Degree College, Berasia (Bhopal).

31-3-2021: Online panel discussion on ‘Organisms and size: why size matters’, organized as part of the virtual science exhibition ‘Cosmic Zoom’, organized by ICTS, Bengaluru.

13-4-2021: Online panel discussion in Hindi on ‘Science of learning: academics to institutional perspective’, organized by DST-Rajasthan.

11-7-2021: Online talk on ‘Two decades of experimental population ecology’, organized by Biologically Speaking, on the occasion of World Population Day.

14-7-2021: Online talk on ‘The illusion of mechanism in biology’, as part of the CCMB (Hyderabad) Biologue series.

22-10-2021: Online talk in the BioInspire National Webinar organized by Jain University, Bengaluru.

18-2-2022: Invited online talk at ‘ISEB3: International Conference on Insect Systematics and Evolutionary Biology’ organized by Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists and Punjabi University, Patiala.

18-3-2022: Online talk at the ‘Refresher Course in Organization, Complexity and Evolution of Living Systems, organized by IASc., INSA and NASI at Govt. Degree College, Srikakulam.

18-4-2022: Special online Guest Lecture at ‘Impulse-22’, a festival organized by ‘Synapse’, the Zoological Society of Miranda House College, New Delhi.

5-6-2022: Online lecture on 'How can biology illuminate public policy?', Takshashila Institute, Bengaluru.

8-9-2022: Speaker and panelist in online meeting of South Asia Open Science Network, organised by DST-CPR and Swissnex, Bengaluru.

6-12-2022: Online lecture on 'Atheism after Darwin' as part of an INSTUCEN Online Course on 'Reason and faith: a quest to understand atheism and religion across the centuries'.

10-2-2023: Plenary talk 'Crowded fruitfly cultures: more than just density' at 'ISEB4: Revolutionizing Darwinian synthesis' organized by Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists and Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad. 

25-2-2023: Invited lecture (jointly with Satyabrata Nayak) on 'The role of genes in evolutionary explanation' at the Seventh Foundation of Biology Meeting on 'Evolution: an ongoing synthesis?', supported by the Indian Academy of Sciences at Coorg.

2-3-2023: Invited online lecture in the Seventh Workshop on 'Trans-disciplinary Areas of Research and Teaching by Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awardees', organized by Deen Dayal Upadhyay College, Delhi.

4-3-2023: Invited online Plenary Lecture at an International Conference on 'Growth of Biological Sciences', organized by Faculty of Life Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala.

4-3-2023: Invited online lecture at a National Online Webinar on 'Partnership for Wildlife Conservation, and Saving Wildlife', organized by Department of Zoology, St. Francis College for Women, Hyderabad, on the occasion of World Wildlife Day and the 60th anniversary of the department's founding.

10-3-2023: Invited presentation on 'Evolutionary Medicine and Evolutionary Psychology' at a workshop on 'Public Policy x Evolution', jointly organized by Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists and the Takshashila Institution at Bangalore.

16-3-2023: Invited online lecture at a 'National Online Meet on Evolutionary Biology' organized by the Department of Zoology, Hindu College, Delhi on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the department, and the 125th anniversary of the founding of Hindu College.

26-3-2023: Invited public lecture on 'What is natural selection, and why it is not the survival of the fittest', organized at the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore, by the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) as part of its 'Kaapi with Kuriosity' series of public lectures.

4-4-2023: Invited online lecture at EvoBio-2023, a workshop for school and college teachers from West Bengal and Jharkhand, organized by IISER Kolkata.

21-4-2023: Invited lecture on 'The Art of Science and the Science of Art, and why the twain do meet', organized by Dhwani, JNCASR, Bangalore.

29-6-2023: Plenary talk on 'What is heritability in the light of a phenotypical theory of natural selection?' at Understanding Behaviour 2023, organized at IISER Kolkata.