Short term
researchers
⌜Alumni⌟
Kiran Malhotra
IAS Summer Fellow, Chhattisgarh
August-September 2022
Amalendu Sasikumar Nair
JNCASR Summer Fellow
BSc Zoology student, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore
July-September 2022
Tshering Yangzom
IAS Summer Fellow, Sikkim
June-July 2022
Harikrishnan S.
5th Year BS-MS student, MSc dissertation, Bangalore University
June-October 2022
Irene Aniyan Puthethu
Integrated MS 4th Year, School of Biological Sciences, National Institute of Science Education & Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar
June-July 2022
Souparnika S.
2nd Year BS-MS student at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal
May-July 2022
Prahalad Vathsan
B-Tech Degree in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madars (IIT-M)
May-July 2022
Ishita Gupta
KVPY Fellow
3rd Year BS-MS student at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal
May-July 2022
Patil Ronak Kailas
Virtual Summer Intern
IISER Mohali
July–August 2021
Clayton Fernando R.
Summer Intern
Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Krishnankoil, Tamil Nadu
January–July 2021
Akshatha Bhat
Ant–plant interactions
Nehal Naik
Comparison of olfactory receptors of male and female wasps of Ceratosolen fusciceps
August 2019–April 2020
Madhupreeta Muralidhar
The Vulnerability of Pollinators and Pollination Services in India in the Context of Climate Change
2019–2020
Sharwary M. R.
KVPY Summer Fellow
IISc
Kanish
Summer Intern
Kumaraguru Institute of Technology, Coimbatore
January–April 2020
Anantu S.
KVPY Fellow
IISER Kolkata
June–July 2019
Geetika
IAS Summer Fellow
June–July 2019
Sushmita Konwar
IAS Summer Fellow
Tezpur University, Assam
June–July 2019
Kanish
Summer Intern
Kumaraguru Institute of Technology, Coimbatore
May–June 2019
Prajwal V. Bharadwaj
KVPY Fellow
IISER Bhopal
May–July 2019
Gifty Alin Jacob
Summer Fellow
IISER Thiruvananthapuram
May–June 2019
Kruthika Sen A.
Summer Intern
St. Josephs College (Autonomous), Bangalore
March 2019
K. Nikita
Summer Intern
Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai
December–February 2019
P. Sai Mounika
Summer Intern
Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai
December–February 2019
Shreyayakta Chakraborthy
Summer Intern
Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai
December–February 2019
Surbhi Chauhan
IAS Summer Fellow
Sri Venkateswara College, New Delhi
June–July 2018
Purbayan Ghosh
Summer Fellow
IISER Kolkata
May–July 2018
Vijayaditya Ray
Summer Fellow
IISER Kolkata
The changing hues of development: A study of fig histology using Ficus racemosa system
May–July 2018
Payal Dash
Summer Intern
NISER, Bhubaneshwar
May–July 2018
Ipshita Gayen
DST–INSPIRE Fellow
IISER Kolkata
May–July 2018
Abitha Chakrapani
IAS Summer Fellow
Azim Premji University, Bangalore
May–July 2018
Payal Dash
KVPY Fellow– Winter internship
School of Biological Sciences, NISER, Bhubaneswar
Mating behavior of phoretic nematode associated with Ficus racemosa system
May–July 2018
Sailee Pradeep Sakhalkar
TROPIMUNDO Masters thesis
Obligate pollination mutalisms in a seasonal cloud forest in the Western Ghats of India
August–September 2017
Pooja Nathan
Summer Intern, IISc
Understanding the role of seed predators in the Ficus system, with special focus on Ficus racemosa and Appolonius cincticornis
May–July 2017
Tejashwini Hegde
KVPY Summer Fellow
IISER, Mohali
May–July 2017
Varun Sunder
IAS Summer Fellow
SIES College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Mumbai
April–June 2017
S. Thejaswini
Summer Intern
Mount Carmel College, Bangalore
April–May 2017
Aditi Vijayan
Summer Intern
Mount Carmel College, Bangalore
April–May 2017
Anahita Ananth
Summer Intern
January–February 2017
Anupriya E. S.
IAS Summer Fellow
IISER, Thiruvananthapuram
May–July 2016
Athira T.
IAS Summer Fellow
Central University of Kerala, Kasargod
Host location behavior and mechanism in non pollinating wasps – A Case Study using Ficus racemosa as a model
May–July 2016
Saswata Chatterjee
KVPY Summer Fellow
Mathematical approach to determine the probability of successful colonization of host and population dynamics of host and vehicle when in a phoretic association
May–July 2016
Pooja Nathan
KVPY Summer Fellow
A Seed’s Story: Physical, chemical and biological factors governing seed germination success in the vicinity of parent trees: A Case Study using Ficus racemosa and Appolonius cincticornis
May–July 2016
Nitin Ravikantachari
IAS Summer Fellow
July–August 2015
Jitendra K.
KVPY Summer Fellow
Investigations on chemical camouflage in Sycophaga fusca as an anti–predatory defense against Oecophylla smaragdina ants
May–July 2015
Ankita Das
IAS Summer Fellow
St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai
April–May 2015
Nikhil Pradip More
IAS Summer Fellow, Pune University
Investigation of lipid allocation in egg vs. body in a community of fig wasps of Ficus racemosa
May–July 2014
Kavita Venkataramani
IAS Summer Fellow
Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai
June–August 2014
Nirmal Mahendra Borkar
Summer Intern
JNCASR, Jakkur
Fig, fig–wasps system and Fungus–growing termite Odontotermes obesus
June–July 2013
Akshya Surendra
IAS Summer Fellow
BITS Pilani K. K. Birla, Goa M
May–July 2013
Manoj D. A.
Termite soil preferences and behavioural observations of Macrotermitinae
June–August 2012
Brihaspati Kumar Gaurav
IAS Summer Fellow
Termite mound soil properties and termite soil preferences
May–June 2012
Rucha Vatturkar
Microbial gut symbionts of ants
August–September 2011
Vignesh Venkateswaran
IAS Summer Fellow
Assessing female function of figs
June–July 2011
Srinivas Rao
KVPY Summer Fellow
Mamatha Poojarthy
IAS Summer Fellow
Pollen profiles of carpenter bees
2007
Ashwin Miriyala
IAS Summer Fellow
Wasp predation by Oecophylla ants
May–June 2011
Ritwika Mukherjee M.
Males in the fig–fig wasp system
May–June 2011
Chanda Bhat
IAS Summer Fellow
June–August 2010
Manogna Bobbala
Study of the fig–fig wasp system
June–July 2010
Sudeeksha Murari
Comparative study of termite mound soil and surrounding top soil
June 2010
Tulika Sharma
Males in the fig–fig wasp system
December 2009–January 2010
Pranjali Anand Tatti
Males in the fig–fig wasp system
November–December 2009
Shravan Sukumar
KVPY Summer Fellow
Mate recognition in pollinator wasps of Ficus racemosa
June–July 2009
Sharada G.
IAS Summer Fellow
Study of navigational cues in ants
May–December 2009
Prajkta Bhide
Young Science Fellow
Standardization of behavioral experiments in crab spider Thomisus spectabilis
May–June 2006
Megha Vaman Rao
JNCASR Summer Fellow
Differential utilization of extra–floral nectar by Technomyrmex albipes
April–June 2006
Anusha Krishnan
KVPY Summer Fellow
Behaviour of ant-mimicking spiders
May 2005
Gorur Shandilya Srinivasan
KVPY Summer Fellow
May–July 2005
T. T. Shree Harsha
KVPY Summer Fellow
June–August 2004
Hari Sridhar
IISc Young Science Fellow
Ant–mimicking spiders: Interaction between Jatropa and Lynx spider
2001, 2002