Vivek Nithyananda from Newcastle University, England had given a talk on 18th Jan 2023. He explained how stress-induced states affect cognitive decision-making in the bumblebees. He also spoke about emotion-like states called affective states in the bumblebees.
Yuval Sapir from Tel-Aviv University, Israel spoke about the evolution of flower color variation on the 19th Jan 2023. He spoke about the flower color dimorphism in Linum pubescens through the differential behaviour of its major pollinator, thereby showing us an example of balancing selection in flowers. He also spoke about the pleiotropic effect on color variation as an adaptation towards climatic factors in Anemone flowers. Lastly, he also shed some light about the continuous flower color variation in the Royal Irises.
Photo courtesy: Sudeep R
People inset (Left to Right): Kavya Mohan, Sudeep R, Amal K Vyas, Dr. Yuval Sapir, Prof. Hema Somanathan, Sajesh Vijayan, Dr. Vivek Nithyananda, Manish Ravi, Siva Subramaniam, Asmi Jezeera, Arya Devi, Sachin Bhaskar, Dr. Baheerathan Murugavel, Aparna Pradeep, Kaustubh Verma