Publications in International Journals

1. Anindita Bhadra, Priya L. Iyer, A. Sumana, Sujata A. Deshpande, Saubhik Ghosh and Raghavendra Gadagkar. How do workers of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata detect the presence of their queens? Journal of Theoretical Biology 246 (2007), 574-582. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.01.007
2. A. Sumana, Sujata A. Deshpande, Anindita Bhadra and Raghavendra Gadagkar. Workers of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata do not perceive their queen across a wire mesh partition, Journal of Ethology 26 (2008), 207-212. doi: 10.1007/s10164-007-0049-9
3. Shakti Lamba, Yasmin Claire Kazi, Sujata Deshpande, Meghana Natesh, Anindita Bhadra, and Raghavendra Gadagkar. A possible novel function of dominance behaviour in queen-less colonies of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata. Behavioural Processes 74 (2007), 351-356. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.12.003
4. Anindita Bhadra and Raghavendra Gadagkar. “We know that the wasps know”: Cryptic successors to the queen in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata. Biology Letters 4 (2008), 634-637. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0455
5. Anindita Bhadra, Ferenc Jordàn, A. Sumana, Sujata A.  Deshpande and Raghavendra Gadagkar. Comparing social networks of wasp colonies and classrooms: heterogeneity and functioning, Ecological Complexity 9 (2009), 48-55. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2008.10.004
6. Anindita Bhadra, Ferenc Jordàn and Raghavendra Gadagkar. Queens and their successors: A comparative study of the social networks of two species of primitively eusocial wasps. In preparation.
7. Anindita Bhadra, Aniruddha Mitra, Sujata Deshpande, K. Chandrashekhar, Dattatraya G. Naik and Raghavendra Gadagkar; Reproductive regulation in the primitively eusocial wasp  Ropalidia marginata: On the trail of the Queen pheromon, .J. Chemical Ecology 36 (2010), 424-431. DOI 10.1007/s10886-010-9770-x.
8. Anindita Bhadra, Saikat Chakraborty and Raghavendra Gadagkar. The transition from physical to chemical regulation of worker reproduction in Ropalidia marginata. In preparation.
9. Anindita Bhadra, Saubhik Ghosh and Raghavendra Gadagkar. The rub abdomen behaviour in Ropalidia marginata: How the queen spreads her smell. In preparation.

1. Silanjan Bhattacharyya and Anindita Bhadra (Eds). Proceedings of the National Workshop on Evolutionary Approach in the Studies of Ecology and Behaviour, Vivekananda College, Kolkata (2005).
2. Anindita Bhadra. Ernst Walter Mayr – The Grand Vizier of Evolutionary Biology (1904-2005), Resonance 10, 7 (2005), 2-5.
3. Anindita Bhadra. Queens are tyrannical, The Bengaluru Pages, 1 – 15 September (2008), pg 30.
4. Anindita Bhadra. Babies can tell nice guys, Down to Earth, February 16 (2009), pg 53.
5. Anindita Bhadra. The ways of the royalty, Down to Earth, May 31 (2009).
6. Anindita Bhadra. Your pet is not as smart as you think, Down to Earth, Nov 30 (2009).

1. Teaching assistant to Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar for the course on Sociobiology and Animal Behaviour (2002 – 2004).
2. Co-ordinator for practicals in the DST sponsored workshop on “Methods in Behavioural Ecology” organized by Prof. Gadagkar at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2004 and 2006.
3. Co-instructor in the UGC-funded workshop on “Evolutionary Approach in the studies of Ecology and Behaviour” organized by the Vivekananda College, Kolkata in 2005.
4. Invited lecture on altruism and social evolution at the Sciforum, Dept. of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc, Bangalore.
5. Invited lecture on social insects and evolution at the Oxford College, Bangalore.
6. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the Ethological Society of India at Bangalore.
7. Invited lecture on the social behaviour of the paper wasp Ropalidia marginata at the Vivekananda College, Thakurpukur, Kolkata.
8. Invited lecture on sociobiology at the Dept. of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
9. Invited lectures on animal behaviour and evolution for the BIO-REAP course conducted by the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore for undergraduate students.
10. Invited talk as young scientist on the social behaviour of the wasp Ropalidia marginata at the Berlin Behavioural Biology Symposium, April 30th – May 5th, 2009.
11. Resource person for the UGC-NRCBS School on Animal Behaviour & Chronobiology at the Madurai Kamaraj University, Aug 28^th to Sept 11^th, 2009.
12. Course on Evolution at IISER-Kolkata to 2^nd year students, Aug semester.
13. Invited speaker at the Two day discussion meeting on Evolutionary Biology in India: Looking ahead, JNCASR, Bangalore, Sept 11^th and 12^th, 2009.
14. Course on Communication at the organismal level to 4^th Year students at IISER-Kolkata, Jan semester.
15. Invited speaker at the conference on the Evolution of Complex Systems, a satellite meeting of ICTS, at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Jan 13^th – 15^th, 2010.

1. Animal Behaviour
2. Insectes Sociaux
3. Insect Science
4. PNAS
5. Current Science
6. Myrmecological News