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Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, Bangalore
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My group is interested in ecology, evolution, pathogen surveillance, biogeography, behaviour, climate, population genetics and conservation biology. We use a wide range of field and analytical techniques to understand: 

a) Ecology and population genomics of dengue and malaria transmitting mosquito species.

b) Wastewater-based Epidemiology of pathogens

d) Host-parasite interactions: role of bird migration in exchange of blood parasites between wintering and breeding grounds.


e) How does vector emergence and environmental conditions facilitate/regulate parasite exchange?




 





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                                                                         Recent Publications

#TedXBiomeEnvironmentalTrust2021 “A city and its used water”
#WildWomenInterviews with Janaki Lenin
Why should we study malaria in birds: Explorer series talk, IA@10      
Ageism in academic jobs in India: Naturejobs blog
Comic: Farah gives us a bird's eye view
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Island biogeography and human practices drive ecological connectivity in mosquito species richness in the Lakshadweep Archipelago Mosquito larval survey sites shown in coloured dots on ten Lakshadweep Islands. The mean and 95% confidence interval bar show prevalence of artificial and natural habitats on each island.
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Exploring the thermal limits of malaria transmission in the western Himalaya Extrinsic incubation period (EIP) in days of P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. relictum, Haemoproteus and Leucocytozoon for four sites of the western Himalaya. These are calculated using mean temperature (circle) and diurnal temperature range (DTR) (star) from May 2014 to April 2015. Bar represents the standard deviation.
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The effect of habitat quality on the blood parasite assemblage in understorey avian insectivores in the Eastern Himalaya, India
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Genetic drift and bottleneck do not influence diversity in toll-like receptor genes at a small spatial scale in a Himalayan passerine
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Non-invasive sampling reveals population genetic structure in the Royle's pika, Ochotona roylei, in the western Himalaya
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Do avian blood parasites influence hypoxia physiology in a high elevation environment?
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Seasonal dynamics in mosquito abundance and temperature do not influence avian malaria prevalence in the Himalayan foothills
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A call to introduce structured Zika surveillance in India
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