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Manasa Kulkarni⭢

PhD Work

Resource allocation patterns and strategies in the mutualism between figs and fig wasps

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Post doctoral researcher
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Alnarp

Integrated PhD work

Through the looking glass: Phoresy as seen in the light of mutualism

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Advisor
Dell Technology, Bengaluru

Integrated PhD work

Brick-laying to Building Mud Castles: Ecology and Engineering of Mound Construction by the Fungus-farming Termite Odontotermes obesus

Vignesh Venkateswaran→

Integrated PhD work

The evolutionary ecology of dispersal in fig wasp communities

Lakshya Katariya

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Innovation Policy Researcher
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Integrated PhD Work

Ecology of fungus-farming by termites: Fungal population genetics and defensive mechanisms of termites against the parasitic fungus Pseudoxylaria

Pratibha Yadav→

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R&D Head, Entomology
Livin Farms AgriFood GmbH, Vienna, Austria

Integrated PhD Work

Host location in non-pollinating fig wasps of Ficus racemosa: age, oviposition history and the ovipositor

Anusha Krishnan→

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Freelance Bioscience Writer and Editor
Bengaluru

Integrated PhD Work

The role of nursery size and plant phenology on the reproduction and relationships with a fig–fig wasp nursery pollination system

Joyshree Chanam

PhD Work

Trophic interactions between the ant–plant Humboldtia brunonis and its invertebrate associates

Mahua Ghara→

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Post-doctoral research
IISER Mohali

PhD Work

Divided they stay: species coexistence in a community of mutualists and exploiters

Yuvaraj Ranganathan→

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Cofounder of a genomics startup focussed on personalized medicine
Prague, Czechia and Trivandrum, India

PhD Work

Ants, Figs, Fig waps: the Chemical Ecology of a Multitrophic System

Megha Shenoy→

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Teacher
The Valley School

PhD Work

Spatial variation in myrmecophytic interactions of the semi-myrmecophyte
Humboldtia brunonis (Fabaceae)

Guru Prasad B. R.

Integrated PhD Work

Foraging movements of an obligately arboreal herbivore, the Malabar giant squirrel Ratufa indica