CES In-house Symposium 2014: Schedule
Day 1
Session 1
Introductions and Announcements
9.30 – 10.10
Dr. Rohini Balakrishnan
(Faculty)
Title – Temperature, size and song frequency in tree crickets.
10.10 – 10.30
Navendu Page
(Dr. Kartik Shanker’s Lab)
Title – Patterns in local, regional and turnover diversity in the evergreen woody plants of the Western Ghats.
10.30 – 10.50
Rutuja Chitra Tarak
(Dr. R. Sukumar’s Lab)
Title – Trees shrink: how much did they grow then?
10.50 – 11.15
Tea / Coffee
Session 2
11.15 – 11.55
Dr. Praveen Karanth
(Faculty)
Title – Phylogenetic diversity as a measure of biodiversity: Pros and cons.
11.55 – 12.35
Divya B.
(Dr. Praveen Karanth’s Lab)
Title – Capturing richness independent phylogenetic diversity and testing PD surrogates in woody plant communities.
12.35 – 13.00
Bharat H. Aithal
(Dr. T.V. Ramachandra’s Lab)
Title – Visualisation of urbanisation patterns in Greater Bangalore, India.
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
Session 3
14.00 – 14.40
Sandeep Pulla
(Dr. R. Sukumar’s Lab)
Title – Tree niche differentiation in a tropical forest.
14.40 – 15.00
Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel
(Dr. R. Sukumar’s lab)
Title – Assessing stress response in Asian Elephants using fecal glucocorticoid metabolites.
15.00 – 15.20
Souvik Mandal
(Dr. Raghavendra Gadagkar’s Lab)
Title – How far do wasps fly?
15.20 – 15.45
Tea / Coffee
Session 4
15.45 – 16.05
Jaideep Joshi
(Dr. Vishwesha Guttal’s lab)
Title – Collective movement and evolution of altruism.
16.05 – 16.25
Ravi Jhambekar
(Dr. Kavita Isvaran’s Lab)
Title – Impact of the Invasive Weed Lantana camara (Verbenaceae) on Butterfly Behaviour
16.25 – 16.45
Dr. Sumanta Bagchi
(Faculty)
Title – Empirical signatures of ecological resilience.
16.45 – 17.05
Ganesh Hegde
(Dr. T.V. Ramachandra’s Lab)
Title – Solar energy for rural electrification: Rooftop PV for domestic and standalone systems for irrigation.
Day 2
Session 5
Announcements
9.30 – 10.10
Dr. Renee M. Borges
(Faculty)
Title – Do plant and animals differ in phenotypic plasticity?
10.10 – 10.30
Dr. Kavita Isvaran
(Faculty)
Title – Is the distribution of reproductive success among females relatively uniform in birds and mammals?
10.30 – 10.50
Kunal Arekar
(Dr. Praveen Karanth’s lab)
Title – Determining the species status of the Himalayan populations of Hanuman langur
10.50 – 11.15
Tea / Coffee
Session 6
11.15 – 11.55
Dr. Deepak Veerappan
(Dr. Praveen Karanth’s lab)
Title – Preliminary findings on the phylogeography and systematics of the fan-throated lizards Sitana cf. ponticeriana.
11.55 – 12.15
Monisha Bhattacharyya
(Dr. Rohini Balakrishnan’s Lab)
Title- Reproductive isolation through song in two sympatric tree cricket species
12.15 – 12.35
Paromita Saha
(Dr. Raghavendra Gadagkar’s Lab)
Title- Yet to be updated
12.35 – 13.00
Sabiha Sachdeva
(Dr. Vishwesha Guttal’s Lab)
Title- Anticipating the regime shifts in ecosystems using spatial data
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
Session 7
14.00 – 14.40
Aniruddha Dutta Roy
(Dr. Praveen Karanth’s Lab)
Title- A peek into the evolutionary origin of skinks of the Indian subcontinent.
14.40 – 15.00
Suman Attiwilli
(Dr. Kavita Isvaran’s Lab)
Title- Impact of invasive plant Lantana camara and road on habitat use by butterflies in a moist deciduous forest
15.00 – 15.20
Dr. Anjan Kumar Nandi
(Dr. Raghavendra Gadagkar’s Lab)
Title- Dominance networks in social wasps: detecting substructure and beyond
15.20 – 15.45
Tea / Coffee
Session 8
15.45 – 16.05
Nitin Saxena
(Dr. Vishwesha Guttal’s Lab)
Title – Understanding the pattern of evolution of schooling behaviour in fish using phylogenetic approach
16.05 – 16.25
Samira Agnihotri
(Dr. Rohini Balakrishnan’s Lab)
Title – Quantifying vocal mimicry in the Greater Racket-tailed Drongo: A comparison of automated methods and human assessment.
16.25 – 15.05
Dr. Raghavendra Gadagkar
(Faculty)
Title – Worker Policing in Social Hymenoptera: are ugly data destroying a beautiful theory, and what we should do about it?
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