Awards/Distinctions conferred on my students

7.   Ms. Anindita Brahma – The Shamrao Kaikini Medal (2017-18) for Best PhD Thesis in the Ecological Sciences for the thesis entitled “Game of thrones: Direct Fitness through nest foundation in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata” (awarded on 12 September 2019).

6.   Ms. Anindita Brahma – Best Poster Award – 1st Prize - European Society for Evolutionary Biology XIV Congress, 20-25 August 2017, Groningen, Netherlands.

Title of Poster: Emergence of Cooperation and Division of Labour in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidia marginata.

5.   Mr. Souvik Mandal – Best Poster Award – 1st Prize - European Society for Evolutionary Biology XIV Congress, 20-25 August 2017, Groningen, Netherlands.

Title of Poster: Ontogeny of Spatial Familiarity and foraging ability in a tropical social wasp.

4.   Ms. Anindita Brahma – Student Poster Award during the 16th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology on the 30th anniversary of its founding, University of Exeter, UK, 18th July – 3rd August 2016.

Title of Poster: Lose or retain: nest initiation potential of a eusocial wasp.

3.   Mr. Souvik Mandal - European Commission Euraxess Science Communication Award, “Science Slam”- 2015

2.   Mr. Souvik Mandal - – Student Poster Award during the 34th International Ethological Conference 2015, Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns, Queensland, 9-14 August 2015.

Title of Poster: Does the wasp know where she is? Orientation ability of the tropical paper wasp Ropalidia marginata.

1.   Ms.Anindita Brahma – Student Poster Award during the 34th International Ethological Conference 2015, Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns, Queensland, 9-14 August 2015.

Title of Poster: Three better than two but not better than one: A study of nest foundation in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata.