Radhika Venkatesan
Assistant Professor
Dept: Biological Sciences (DBS)
E-mail: rv [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
My lab primarily works on plant-insect interactions in the broad area of chemical ecology. We investigate interesting research questions relating to tri-trophic interactions between plants, insect herbivores and parasitoid wasps. We also work on plant defence responses and their spatiotemporal allocation patternsTo know more details, www.rv-ilab.weebly.com
Academic Background:
- PhD (Chemical Ecology), Max Planck Institute for ChemicalEcology (Jena, Germany), 2010
Positions:
- Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata (current)
- Assistant Professor, NCBS (2015 - 2020)
Awards and Honors:
- Early Career Award from SERB (2016)
- Ramanujan Fellowship from SERB (2015)
Selected Publications:
- Kabir, Shakilur; Venkatesan, Radhika and Thaker, Maria. 2020."Multiple sensory modalities in diurnal geckos is associated with the signalling environment and evolutionary constraints." Integrative Organismal Biology, 2, obaa027
- Ghosh, Enakshi and Venkatesan, Radhika. 2019."Plant volatiles regulate immune responses in Spodoptera litura.." Journal of Chemical Ecology, 45, 715-724
- Sasidharan, Rohit and Venkatesan, Radhika. 2019."Seed elaiosome mediates dispersal by ants and impacts germination in Ricinus communis." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution , 7, 246
- Kabir, Md. Shakilur; Venkatesan, Radhika and Thaker, Maria. 2019."Mismatch in receiver responses to multimodal signals in the diurnal gecko, Cnemaspis mysoriensis." Animal Behavior, 147, 115-123
- Khan, I; Prakash, A; Issar, S; Umarani, M; Sasidharan, R; Masagalli, JN; Lama, P; Venkatesan, Radhika and Agashe, D. 2018."Female density dependent chemical warfare underlies fitness effects of group sex ratio in flour beetles." The American Naturalist, 191, 306-317
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