Picture Gallery
Larry Mueller's visit to JNC, 2009. He gave the first Darwin Lecture of the Centre, and attended a two-day meeting on Evolutionary Biology in India. Picture with current and past lab members (L to R: B M Prakash, Mohan Jayaram, Mallikarjun Shakarad, me, Larry, Sutirth Dey, Archana Nagarajan, N G Prasad, Kanika Mendiratta, Snigdhadip Dey, Joy Bose, Soundarya Iyer, Jitendra Kumar Barupal).
Dharwad - INSA's Darwin Conference, 2009 - Four academic generations: Bodhisatta Nandy (then doing PhD with Prasad), N G Prasad, me and Larry.
First Prof. M K Chandrashekaran Memorial Meeting, January, 2012: N G Prasad, M Rajamani, me, Sheeba Vasu and Sutirth Dey
IISER Mohali, 2015, Ethological Society of India Meeting: with academic offspring, grand-offspring and great grand-offspring!
Jan, 2015: Lab dinner at Oh Calcutta, Bengaluru: Snigdhadip Dey, V S Sajith, Neha Pande, Avani Mital, me, Shruti Mallya and Manaswini Sarangi
Summer, 2015: Lab with summer students: Avani Mital, Kamaljyoti Chattopadhyay, Neha Pande, Shruti Mallya, Joy Bose, Rukmini Shekhar, Harshavardhan Thyagarajan, me, Akshai Pillai, V S Sajith and Manaswini Sarangi
Shruti's farewell party at District 6 Brewery, Orion Mall, Bengaluru, 2017: Manan Gupta, Joy Bose, Srikant Venkitachalam, Shruti Mallya, Manaswini Sarangi, Avani Mital, me and Satyabrata Nayak
JNC, March, 2002: V Krishnan (then President, JNC), Robert May, M K Chandrashekaran (then Chairman, EOBU) and me
Jan 2015: Dinner with Mallikarjun Shakarad at Neel's, Bengaluru. Mallik was visiting for JNC's 25th Anniversary In-House Symposium
ROOTS!
Sutirth Dey and N G Prasad with Larry Mueller and Michael Rose at Irvine, April 2012. The way our lab functions and the manner in which we conduct experimental evolution studies is hugely influenced by the Mueller and Rose labs.
Summer, 2008. Lab with summer students: Rajdeep Bannerjee, Shampa Ghosh, Vineet Jain, Kanika Mendiratta, Sisir C Anand, Mukta Watve, Bedartha Goswami, Joy Bose, Archana Nagarajan, Snigdhadip Dey and me
Lab dinner during Larry Mueller's second visit, March 2013: B M Prakash, Larry, me, Sajith, Avani, Abhilash L, Manaswini, Geetanjali Vaidya
"Stop following me", as it says on the t-shirt. Dharwad, INSA's Darwin Conference, 2009. Sutirth, Prasad and me.
Dharwad, 2009. Good science and lots of laughter go together well! Prasad, Sutirth and me.
Serious discussion - Larry and Prasad, Dharwad, 2009.
2015: My 50th birthday with various lab and unit members
April, 2017: Srikant Venkitachalam defended his MS thesis on modelling the ecology and evolution of crowded fruitfly cultures. Subsequent celebrations at Druid's Garden, Sahakaranagara, Bengaluru.