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EDUCATION
University of Georgia, Aiken, SC, USA
Advisor: Dr Guha Dharmarajan
Dissertation Title: “Avian Haemosporidian dynamics in the Western Ghats Sky Island bird system”
Thesis Title: “Screening of MDR1 gene Polymorphisms in non-tribal population of Kerala”
CONFERENCES
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant (Summer 2019)
Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
ACADEMIC SERVICE
- PhD, Disease Ecology and Evolution, 2016 - 2020
University of Georgia, Aiken, SC, USA
Advisor: Dr Guha Dharmarajan
Dissertation Title: “Avian Haemosporidian dynamics in the Western Ghats Sky Island bird system”
- M.S. Biotechnology, 2008 - 2010
Thesis Title: “Screening of MDR1 gene Polymorphisms in non-tribal population of Kerala”
- B.S. Biotechnology, 2005 - 2008
CONFERENCES
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
- Host phylogeny matters: Examining sources of variation in infection risk by blood parasites across a tropical montane bird community in India. SICB Annual Meeting, Virtual. January 2021
- Geographical and host species barriers differentially affect generalist and specialist parasite community structure in a tropical sky-island archipelago. 1st Annual Savannah River Ecology Laboratory Graduate Student Symposium, Windsor, South Carolina, USA. July 2019
- Eco-evolutionary dynamics of avian haemosporidian parasites in a tropical sky island archipelago of Western Ghats, India. Evolution, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. June 2019
- Biogeography of Haemosporidian Parasites Infecting Diverse Bird Communities in the Shola Sky Islands of the Western Ghats, India. 9th Biennial Conference International Biogeography Society, Malaga, Spain. January 2019
- Bugs in birds: Hitch-hiking across the tropical sky-island bird community of Western Ghats India. 4th International Workshop on Avian Malaria, National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, USA. September 2015
- Exploring the effects of patchiness and fragmentation: genetic connectivity of a sky island bird in the Western Ghats, Student conference on Conservation Science, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. September 2013 Press coverage
- Host and Environmental Factors Differentially Affect Parasite Community Structure and Infection Dynamics in a Montane Biodiversity Hotspot. Evolution, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. June 2019
- Host and Environmental Factors Differentially Affect Parasite Community Structure and Infection Dynamics in a Montane Biodiversity Hotspot. 29th Molecular Parasitology & Vector Biology Symposium, CTEGD, Athens, Georgia, USA. May 2019
- Avian malaria dynamics in a tropical sky-island bird community of Western Ghats, Southern India. Warnell Graduate Student Symposium, Athens, Georgia, USA. January 2018
- Bugs in birds: Hitch-hiking across the tropical sky-island bird community of Western Ghats India. Frontiers in Modern Biology, IISER, Kolkata, India. December 2015
- Mind the Gap: effect of geographical barriers and rivers on genetic structure in animals. Annual talks, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India. January 2013
WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
- Participated in the “7th Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases” held at University of Washington, Seattle, USA. July 2015
- Participated in Winter School on “Analysis of Massively parallel sequencing (NGS) data” held at National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kolkata, India. March 2015
- Participated in a student conference “Young Ecologist Talk and Interact” held at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. October 2010
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant (Summer 2019)
Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia
- Assisted with instruction of molecular genetics module of a 10-day course on Field and Molecular Techniques in Wildlife Research and Management
- Created course structure and prepared class activities focusing on molecular techniques
- Trained undergraduate and graduate students in basic molecular techniques (e.g., DNA extraction, PCR, disease diagnostics), population genetics and phylogenetics
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
- Graduate Research Assistantship, University of Georgia. 2016 – 2020
- Travel award ($650) by University of Georgia Graduate School. July 2019
- Junior Research Fellowship, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India. 2014 – 2016
- Travel grant ($1000) by NSF-sponsored Malaria Research Coordination Network. September 2015
- Scholarship award ($900) towards registration costs by the Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington. July 2015
- Travel grant ($1300) by Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. July 2015
ACADEMIC SERVICE
- Co-organized Graduate Student Symposium 2019 at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. Responsible for planning content, organization and oversight of various Symposium committees and aided non-student personnel communication
- Served as Facilities Committee Representative as part of the Graduate Student Organization at SREL (Fall 2019 - Spring 2020)
- Reviewer for: Molecular Ecology, International Journal of Parasitology
- Member: American Ornithological Society, International Biogeography Society, Society for the Study of Evolution, Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology
