We have a very dynamic team of evolutionary biologists and ecologists at IISER-Mohali. The team broadly covers : i) evolutionary genetics (Prof. Prasad), ii) behavioural ecology (Dr. Manjari Jain), and iii) evolutionary genomics (Dr. Rhitoban Raychoudhury). The goal of Prof. Prasad's lab is to understand the interplay between sexual conflict, sexual selection and life-history evolution. Specifically, his group is working on Sexual conflict and Sexual Selection, Evolutionary Ecology of immunity and Life-History Evolution. Dr. Manjari's research interests lie in the interface of ethology, ecology and evolutionary biology. Her team is primarily interested in understanding the ecology and evolution of acoustic communication in animals through empirical observations, lab-based experiments and theoretical modelling. Dr. Rhitoban's group is keenly interested in i) the evolution of arthropod-endosymbiont interactions with a special emphasis on Wolbachia, Cardinium and Arsenophonus, ii) evolutionary genetics with the parasitic wasp Nasonia as the model system and iii) molecular evolution and functional genomics of arthropodbacterial symbiosis; iv) phylogeography with particular emphasis on Indian taxa.

Members

N. G. Prasad
Professor

Manjari Jain
Associate Professor

Rhitoban Raychoudhury
Associate Professor