Comparative studies on age polyethism in asian honey bees
I am interested in the mechanisms of animal behavior. Honeybees provide the opportunity to study mechanisms of behavior at the level of the individual and the level of the social organization. Moreover, honey bees are one of the few animal model systems to study the interaction between individual behavior and social organization. We are able to manipulate the social structure and analyze its effects on the individual’s behavior, brain physiology, and brain gene regulation.
So far, most behavioral and neurobiological research on honeybees focused on the European-African species Apis mellifera, unfortunately neglecting the variability in social organization and individual behavior among honey bee species. Honey bee species particularly vary in colony organization, worker activity and longevity, pheromone communication and dance language communication. A special focus of my lab will be research on Asian honey bee species native to India: Apis florea (the red dwarf honeybee), Apis dorsata (the giant honeybee), and Apis cerana (one of the Asian cavity nesting honeybees).
So far, most behavioral and neurobiological research on honeybees focused on the European-African species Apis mellifera, unfortunately neglecting the variability in social organization and individual behavior among honey bee species. Honey bee species particularly vary in colony organization, worker activity and longevity, pheromone communication and dance language communication. A special focus of my lab will be research on Asian honey bee species native to India: Apis florea (the red dwarf honeybee), Apis dorsata (the giant honeybee), and Apis cerana (one of the Asian cavity nesting honeybees).
Post-Docs - Visiting Scientists
Graduate Students
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TIYASA ROY Time memory and the circadian clock |
VIDUR NIRANJAN Variation of dance distance communication in Apis cerana |
Junior Research Fellows and Project Students
ASHWIN SURYARANAYANAN Division of labor and CHC profile in Asian honey bees |
RAJATH SIDDAGANGA Apis dorsata colony life cycle |
Bee Lab Alumni
PhD students
Arumoy Chatterjee (Post Doc, Craig Montell Lab, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Aridni Shah (CEO ImmunitoAI, Bangalore, India)
Rikesh Jain (Post Doc, IBDM – Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille, Marseille, France)
Hemalatha Bhagavan (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Jan(Nino) Ramirez, Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, USA )
Divya Ramesh (Research Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, University of Konstanz, Germany)
Ebi Antony George (Post Doc, Laurent Keller Lab, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Post Docs
Karsing Megu (Assistant Professor, Dera Natung Government College, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India)
Roshan Fatima (Post Doc, Behavioural Neurogenetics Laboratory (Sheeba Vasu), JNCASR, Bangalore, India)
Surindro Asem Singh (Biotechnology Department, Manipur University, Imphal, Manipur, India)
Arpita Sarkar (Post Doc, GReD, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
SRFs
Dhanashree Lakhe (PhD, Madhav Jagannathan Lab, Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland)
JRFs and Project Assistants
Deepika Bais (PhD, Susanne Neupert's group, University of Kassel, Germany)
Sachin Suresh (PhD, Timothy A. Linkswayer Lab, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA)
Smruti Pimplikar (PhD, Muth Lab, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Sukritha Nalikkaramal (PhD, Department of Plant Protection Biology, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden)
Gagana BR (PhD program, NCBS-TIFR)
Supraja Rajagopal (PhD program, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, USA)
Prateek Sahu (PhD program, University of Alberta, Canada)
Alex Johny (PhD program, University of Bern, Switzerland)
Shagnik Chakraborty (PhD, Johann Bollmann lab, University of Freiburg, Germany)
Yogesh Pandey (PhD position at Fraunhofer Institute, Potsdam, Germany)
Ravi Kumar Boyapati (Archives at NCBS)
Bunindro Nameirakpam Singh (PhD IBSD, Manipur)
Nihkil Prabhu (PhD, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, Tuebingen, Germany)
Hinal Kharva (PhD NICE lab, NCBS)
Saurabh Tak (PhD program, IGBMC, Univ. Strasbourg, France)
Anjana Dey (Frankfurt, Germany)
Vandana Pawar
Prahalad Khatana
Collaborators (present and past)
Smitha Krishnan (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT)
Gard Otis (School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada)
Dhruba Naug (Department of Biology, Colorado State University, USA)
Fred C. Dyer (Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MIchigan, USA)
Thomas Schmitt (Evolutionary Chemical Ecology Group, University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Sowdhamini R. (NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore, India)
Jharna Chakravorty (Department of Zoology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, India)
Teiichi Tanimura (Kyushu University, Japan)
Pallab Basu (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR, Bangalare)
Johannes Spaethe (Department of Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Johann Neumayer (Austria)
Jarkko Routtu (Molecular Ecology Research Group, Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter (Department of Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Ricarda Scheiner (Department of Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Dhandapany Perundurai (InStem, Bangalore, India)
Vasuki Belavadi (Department of Entomology, Bangalore, India)
G.C. Kuberappa (Department of Apiculture, UAS-GKVK, Bangalore, India)
Robert Wessells (Department of Physiology, Wayne State University, USA)
Raghavendra Gadagkar (Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc, India)
PhD students
Arumoy Chatterjee (Post Doc, Craig Montell Lab, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Aridni Shah (CEO ImmunitoAI, Bangalore, India)
Rikesh Jain (Post Doc, IBDM – Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille, Marseille, France)
Hemalatha Bhagavan (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Jan(Nino) Ramirez, Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, USA )
Divya Ramesh (Research Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, University of Konstanz, Germany)
Ebi Antony George (Post Doc, Laurent Keller Lab, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Post Docs
Karsing Megu (Assistant Professor, Dera Natung Government College, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India)
Roshan Fatima (Post Doc, Behavioural Neurogenetics Laboratory (Sheeba Vasu), JNCASR, Bangalore, India)
Surindro Asem Singh (Biotechnology Department, Manipur University, Imphal, Manipur, India)
Arpita Sarkar (Post Doc, GReD, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
SRFs
Dhanashree Lakhe (PhD, Madhav Jagannathan Lab, Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland)
JRFs and Project Assistants
Deepika Bais (PhD, Susanne Neupert's group, University of Kassel, Germany)
Sachin Suresh (PhD, Timothy A. Linkswayer Lab, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA)
Smruti Pimplikar (PhD, Muth Lab, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Sukritha Nalikkaramal (PhD, Department of Plant Protection Biology, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden)
Gagana BR (PhD program, NCBS-TIFR)
Supraja Rajagopal (PhD program, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, USA)
Prateek Sahu (PhD program, University of Alberta, Canada)
Alex Johny (PhD program, University of Bern, Switzerland)
Shagnik Chakraborty (PhD, Johann Bollmann lab, University of Freiburg, Germany)
Yogesh Pandey (PhD position at Fraunhofer Institute, Potsdam, Germany)
Ravi Kumar Boyapati (Archives at NCBS)
Bunindro Nameirakpam Singh (PhD IBSD, Manipur)
Nihkil Prabhu (PhD, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, Tuebingen, Germany)
Hinal Kharva (PhD NICE lab, NCBS)
Saurabh Tak (PhD program, IGBMC, Univ. Strasbourg, France)
Anjana Dey (Frankfurt, Germany)
Vandana Pawar
Prahalad Khatana
Collaborators (present and past)
Smitha Krishnan (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT)
Gard Otis (School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada)
Dhruba Naug (Department of Biology, Colorado State University, USA)
Fred C. Dyer (Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MIchigan, USA)
Thomas Schmitt (Evolutionary Chemical Ecology Group, University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Sowdhamini R. (NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore, India)
Jharna Chakravorty (Department of Zoology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, India)
Teiichi Tanimura (Kyushu University, Japan)
Pallab Basu (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR, Bangalare)
Johannes Spaethe (Department of Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Johann Neumayer (Austria)
Jarkko Routtu (Molecular Ecology Research Group, Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter (Department of Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Ricarda Scheiner (Department of Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Dhandapany Perundurai (InStem, Bangalore, India)
Vasuki Belavadi (Department of Entomology, Bangalore, India)
G.C. Kuberappa (Department of Apiculture, UAS-GKVK, Bangalore, India)
Robert Wessells (Department of Physiology, Wayne State University, USA)
Raghavendra Gadagkar (Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc, India)
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Master and B. Tech Thesis Students
Moumita Ghosh (SRM University) Kavitha Anand (VIT Vellore) Neha Tanwar (University of Rajasthan, Jaipur) Smriti Sundar Nikita BG (Amity University, Noida) Divyapriya Anantsri (P.E.S Institute of Technology) Jitesh Jayakumar (M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology) Akshya Mohan (M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology) Sadhana Nath Rajeev (VIT Vellore) Indian Student Interns Naboday Roy (IAS summer research fellowship, University of Kolkata) Bharath Krishnan (IAS summer research fellowship, IISER Pune) Sunil Kumar Sethy (NISER, Bhubaneswar) Ananya Kundu (VIT Vellore) Ankita Sengupta (IISER Kolkata) Vishwaja Jhaveri (MSU, Baroda) Afsah Hasan (IAS summer research fellowship, IISER Pune) Shreesruti Ramesh (IAS summer research fellowship, IISER Pune) Shivprasad Patil (IISER Mohali) Surabhi Srinivasan (SASTRA University) Jeslin John (IAS summer research fellow) Sruthi Niranjana (Anna University) Pearl Prabal Rebecca Samuel (St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai) Amrita Reddy (Mallya Aditi International School) |
International Student Interns
Elea Dheilly (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Benjamin Rutschmann (Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria) Sophia Bohlke (DAAD-fellowship A New Passage to India, Univ. Würzburg, Germany) Franziska Bandorf (Univ. Würzburg, Germany) Ayaka Nakao (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan) Naomi Murashima (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan) Jacob (Jake) Herman (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Patrick Kohl (Univ. of Muenster, Germany) Daniel Materna (DAAD-fellowship A New Passage to India, Univ. Würzburg, Germany) Satoshi Murata (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan) Linde Morawetz (Univ. Würzburg, Germany) Anissa Dude (DAAD-fellowship A New Passage to India, Univ. Würzburg, Germany) Leonie Lichtenstein (Univ. Würzburg, Germany) Cory Maguire (Harvard Bangalore Science Initiative summer fellowship, Harvard University, USA) Tibetian Student Science Intern Program Tenzin Tsondue Sonam Dolma (C.S.T, Mundgod High School) Tenzin Zomkey (C.S.T, Mundgod High School) |
