My Research Group - Graduate Students

Nitika Sharma

M.Sc. Environmental Studies, TERI University, New Delhi

Thesis title: A Place for Everything and Everything in its place : Spatial Organization of Individuals on the Nests of Ropalidia marginata”. [2020]

Anindita Brahma

Present Affiliation: Marie-Curie Post Doctoral Fellow, Queen Mary University of London

Thesis title: Game of thrones: direct fitness through nest foundation in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata. [2018]

Sruthi Unnikrishnan

Thesis title: For Queen and Country – Reproductive and non-reproductive division of labour in the primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidia cyathiformis. [2018]

Souvik Mandal

Present Affiliation: Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Thesis title: Finding the Way Back Home: A Study of Orientation, Navigation and Homing in the Social wasp Ropalidia marginata. [2017]

Paromita Saha

Present Affiliation: Post-doctoral Fellow, Dr. Sandeep Krishna’s Lab, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

Thesis title: Queen succession in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata. [2016]

Saikat Chakraborty

Present Affiliation: YBA Fellow, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani,

Thesis title: Molecular ecology of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata: relatedness, queen succession and population genetics. [2015]

Shantanu Pramod Shukla

Present Affiliation: Department of Entomology, Host Plant Adaptation, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany

Thesis title: Reproductive caste differentiation in primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata [2012]

Aniruddha Mitra

Present Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Shoolini University Bajhol, Solan

Thesis title: Attributes of royalty in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata: pheromone, ovaries and behaviour. [2010]

Alok Ashok Bang

Present Affiliation: Alternative Agriculture Resource Centre, Chetana-Vikas (Consciousness-Development), Wardha

Thesis title: Determinants of Behavioural and Reproductive Dominance in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidia marginata. [2010]

Anindita Bhadra

Present Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Behaviour and Ecology Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata

Thesis title: Queens and their Successors: The story of power in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata [2008]

Ruchira Sen

Present Affiliation: MCM DAV College for Women, Chandigarh

Thesis title: The Biology of two sexes: a study of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata [2007]

Sujata Kardile

Present Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.

Thesis title: Social Biology of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia cyathiformis [2006]

Maulishree Agrahari, Ph. D.

Present Affiliation: CEO - ICT Skills Development Society, Department of IT, BT and S&T, Bangalore

Thesis title: Division of labour and its regulation in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata [2003]

Moushumi Sen Sarma, Ph. D.

Present Affiliation: Postdoctoral Associate, The Robinson Laboratory,Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

M. S. Thesis title: Decision making in honey bee [1999]

Ph. D. Thesis title: Defence and communication in the Asian Dwarf Honeybee Apis florea Fabricius [2003]

A. Sumana, Ph. D.

Present Affiliation: Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata

Thesis title: Dominance behaviour and regulation of reproduction in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata [2002]

Ashok Gopinath, Ph. D.

Present Affiliation: Post-Doc associated with: Dave M. Lin Department of Biomedical Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-6401

Thesis title: Intra-Colony relatedness and population genetic structure in the queenless, Ponerine ant, Diacamma [2002]

Dhruba Naug, Ph. D.

Present Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

Thesis title:Organization of work in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata [1997]

Arathi Seshadri, Ph. D.

Present Affiliation: Special Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

Thesis title: Social organisation and cooperation in genetically mixed colonies of the primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidia marginata [1996]

Mallikarjun Shakarad, Ph. D.

Present Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology University of Delhi, Delhi

Thesis title: Colony founding and the evolution of eusociality in a primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidia marginata [1995]

Sudha Premnath, Ph. D.

Thesis title: Dominance relationships in the social organisation of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata (Lep.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) [1994]

K. Chandrashekara, Ph. D.

Present Affiliation: Assistant Professor,Department of Entomology, University of Agricultural Science, GKVK., Bangalore

Thesis title: Social biology of the tropical primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata (Lep.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) [1991]

Arun B. Venkataraman, Ph. D.

Present Affiliation: Environmental Resources Management India Private Limited, Bengaluru

Thesis title: Studies on the mechanism of nestmate discrimination in a primitively eusocial wasp : Implications for the evolution of eusociality [1990]