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Balu joined the lab in 2011 as a Ph.D, completes three postdocs since, and leaves for Newcastle as a research associate. We wish him all the very best.

Sajesh has been awarded the ESEB (European Society for Evolutionary Biology) Travel Award to attend ESEB 2022 in Prague and a Developing Neuroethology Award from the International Society for Neuroethology to attend ICN 2022 in Lisbon. Apart from these, he is also attending  ICE 2022 in Helsinki.

We wish him happy traveling!

Kavya Mohan has received the student research grant from the Animal Behaviour Society for her research on the foraging ranges of tropical bees.

Aditya, Anumit, Asmi, Reshma and Sudeep presented a part of their works during the poster presentation at the FS-BIO symposium, 2022.  Sajesh gives a students talk on the “Shimmering behaviour of Apis dorsata” and bags the “Flash talk award” for the same.

Well presented you guys!

Below are the pics of Aditya, Asmi, Reshma and Sudeep flaunting their posters.

Last one is Sajesh giving his talk.

Picture courtesy: Anumit Saralkar (1-4), Yash Bhale (5).

Sachin Bhaskar, Amal K Vyas, and Manish R have joined the lab in the Monsoon intake of 2021. Welcome you guys!

Aditya Ghosal and Reshma Basak joined the lab as post-docs in August 2020 Aditya is interested in  social spiders and Reshma will explore olfactory behaviour of stingless bees.

Prof. Hema Somanathan @somanathan_hema has been awarded the Mercator fellowship from DFG @dfg_public, Germany. As a Mercartor fellow she will be a visiting professor at Biocentrum, University of Würzburg, Germany for three years. @tvmiiser @bio_iisertvm https://t.co/Q4EDzj8ZJ0 pic.twitter.com/iYN7jeP01i

— School of Biology, IISER-Thiruvananthapuram (@bio_iisertvm) June 24, 2021

We had three eminent visual ecology experts from the Lund University, Sweden (Prof. Dan-Eric Nilsson) and SOKENDAI – The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan (Prof. Michiyo Kinoshita and Prof. Kentaro Arikawa) visiting our lab from February 21st to 27th. The School of Biology hosted a seminar series where they delivered talks covering various topics focussing on animal vision. Michiyo discussed “Innate colour preference of Papilio butterflies” where she focussed on the interaction between vision and olfaction in butterflies. Dan explained the “Evolution of the eyes” where he detailed how and when low-resolution vision evolved in invertebrates and how that formed the basis for the high-resolution animal eyes. Kentaro discussed the “Physiology of butterfly colour vision” where he explained how the anatomy and neurophysiology of the butterfly compound eyes could be correlated with their ability to discriminate different colours.

We are really happy to announce that Baheerathan is amongst the 13 recipients who have been selected for Bat Conservation International’s (BCI) student scholarships for 2020. This is a timely recognition of the work that Bahee has been engaged in on understanding the behaviour of fruit bats in India. The tweet from BCI announcing the award is below:

Announcing the 2020 recipients of BCI’s Student Research Scholarship for Global Bat Conservation Priorities! These emerging scholars provide ideas and work of great value to the scientific community and bat conservation across the globe. Read more here: https://t.co/ihOiZ36KUk pic.twitter.com/JQ3adH2wX9

— Bat Conservation Int (@BatConIntl) February 6, 2020