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Professor Rohini Balakrishnan of CES has been featured in the 'Conversation' section of the latest issue of Journal of Experimental Biology.

In an interview with Kathryn Knight, she describes her journey: how she became a bioacoustician and her experiences as a field biologist.

Link:

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/224/10/jeb242697/264785/In-t...

Synchrony between individuals or even non-living entities is one of the most striking natural phenomena: from clock pendulums that move in phase to fireflies that flash their light signals together and light up entire trees to crickets, katydids, cicadas and frogs that produce loud, synchronous acoustic choruses. The synchronising calls of species that have been hitherto investigated are however typically simple sound chirps or light flashes that are produced rhythmically at a particular rate.

Gadagkar - 2021 - Experiments in Animal Behaviour - Cutting-Edge Research at Trifling Cost. Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. Access full text of this book at: https://www.ias.ac.in/Publications/e-Books/Experiments_in_Animal_Behaviour

In this book, I introduce readers to the study of animal behaviour by describing simple experiments, both old and new, designed to understand how and why animals behave the way they do.

CES is delighted that Prof Raghavendra Gadagkar has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Karnataka Science and Technology Academy, 2020. 

Hearty congratulations to Prof Gadagkar from the CES community.

Picture credit: Bruno Govaerts

We are delighted that Nancy Collins, a renowned orthopterist, has named a newly discovered tree cricket species in Mexico - Oecanthus rohiniae - after the CES faculty member Prof Rohini Balakrishnan.

In most social insect colonies, a single individual, the queen, is privileged to produce offspring while the rest of the members, the workers, spend their entire lives working for the welfare of the colony and rear the queen's offspring. In addition to such reproductive division of labour between the queens and her workers, sub-sets of workers divide non-reproductive labour among themselves, such as working at home versus going out to obtain food, for example. How the members of a colony agree on and bring about an efficient and conflict-free division of labour is of great interest.

"Ever thought, "what is the scent of life?" and "can nematodes differentiate between different physiological states of their host?". To get answers and insights on the vehicle-passenger relationship do read this paper.

 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10886-021-01242-5#citeas

Inclusive Ecology is an online workshop organised by the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. 

The workshop will introduce participants to broad concepts and approaches in the fields of Ecology, Evolution, Behaviour, Conservation and Quantitative Thinking via workshops. We will also conduct workshops on building professional skills, careers in ecology, and life as a PhD. student.

Ever thought, if tiny organisms can count and how do they do it? Find the answer in this paper. Also, find cool insights on the vehicle-passenger relationship.

 https://animalecologyinfocus.com/2021/01/08/too-many-too-few-or-empty-the-number-of-passengers-determines-whether-nematodes-will-hitchhike-on-a-vehicle/