2025:​​​​

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• Keya and Binay joined lab.

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• Congratulations to Babita Rahul Baisla for successfully defending her thesis entitled '??". 

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• Hemlata and Pramod promoted from JRF to SRF.

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2023:

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• Hemlata and Pramod joined lab.

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• Taruna promoted from JRF to SRF.

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2022:​

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• Taruna passed her comprehensive examination with flying colors. Cheers. 

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• Pre-thesis submission seminar of Alok Tiwary. Congratulations. ???

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• Congratulations to Manisha Gupta for successfully defending her thesis entitled 'Community diversity and functions of Arthropod associated symbionts'.

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• Congratulations to Alok Tiwary for successfully defending his thesis entitled 'Wolbachia infections in Nasonia vitripennis: A host-endosymbiont interaction study'.

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• Congratulations to Garima Prazapati for successfully defending her thesis entitled 'Behaviour, Chemical Ecology and Genetic History of Nasonia'.

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2021:

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• Our paper entitled 'Males of the parasitoid wasp, Nasonia vitripennis, can identify which fly hosts contain females' was published in Royal Society Open Science. Congratulations to Garima Prazapati, Ankit Yadav, Anoop Ambili, Abhilasha Sharma and Rhitoban Raychoudhury. 

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• Congratulations to Renuka Agarwal for successfully defending her thesis entitled 'Multimodal inhibition of the weedy fungi in the gardens of a fungus- growing termite, Odontotermes obesus'. 

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• Our paper entitled 'Are ecological communities the seat of endosymbiont horizontal transfer and diversification? A case study with soil arthropod community' was published in Ecology and Evolution. Congratulations to Manisha Gupta, Rajbir Kaur, Ankita Gupta and Rhitoban Raychoudhury. 

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• Our paper entitled 'In Vitro Studies Reveal that Pseudomonas, from Odontotermes obesus Colonies, can Function as a Defensive Mutualist as it Prevents the Weedy Fungus While Keeping the Crop Fungus Unaffected' was published in Microbial Ecology. Congratulations to Renuka Agarwal, Manisha Gupta, Abin Antony, Ruchira Sen and Rhitoban Raychoudhury. 

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• Congratulations to Alok Tiwary for winning the best oral presentation award at National Post-Doctoral symposium, virtual meeting (NPDS) 2021, India.

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2020:

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• Congratulations to Aanchal for winning the best poster award at the 43rd Annual conference ESI and National Symposium on Animal Behaviour.

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2019:

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• Congratulations to Alok Tiwary for winning the best poster award at the Indian Society of Evolutionary Biology (ISEB) conference, 2019, JNCASR Bangalore, India.

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2018:

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• Congratulations to Alok Tiwary for winning the best oral presentation award at International Zoological Conference – INTZOOCON 2018, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, India.

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2017:

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• Congratulations to Alok Tiwary for winning the best poster presentation award at International Conference in Zoological Sciences and Ants (11th ANeT) 2017, Department of Zoology & Environmental Sciences, Punjabi university, Patiala, India.

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• Congratulations to Garima Prazapati for winning the student ethologist award by the Ethological Society of India, 2017. 

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​2016:

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• Congratulations to Alok Tiwary for winning the best oral presentation award by DST-SERB School of Insect Biology 2016, Department of Zoology & Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala, India.

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