Dr. Shantanu Pramod Shukla
J. Nagaraju's Lab, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad
Thesis title: Reproductive caste differentiation in R. marginata, what makes queens and workers as they are? [2012]
Dr. Aniruddha Mitra
Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Yehuda Ben-Shahar's laboratory.
Department of Biology. Washington University in St. Louis. Monsanto U.S.A.
Thesis title: Attributes of royalty in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata: pheromone, ovaries and behaviour. [2010]
Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics and Evolution,
Universite Paris-Sud XI, Orsay cedex, France.
Thesis title: Determinants of Behavioural and Reproductive Dominance in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidia marginata. [2010]
Dr. Anindita Bhadra
IISER Fellow, Behaviour and Ecology Lab, C. V. Raman Building, Dept. of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
Thesis title:
Queens and their Successors: The story of power in
the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata [2008]
Dr. Ruchira Sen
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Section
of Integrative Biology, Patterson Laboratories, University of Texas, Austin.
Thesis title: The
Biology of two sexes: a study of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia
marginata [2007]
Dr.
Sujata Kardile
Visiting Fellow - Homibhabha Centre for
Science Education V.N.Purav Marg Near Anushakatinagar Bus Terminal Mankhurd,
Mumbai.
Thesis title: Social Biology of the primitively
eusocial wasp Ropalidia cyathiformis [2006]
Assistant Professor, Biotechnology Department, PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore
Thesis title:Division of labour and its regulation in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata [2003]
Postdoctoral Associate, The Robinson Laboratory,Department of Entomology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
M. S. Thesis title: Decision making in honey bee [1999]
Ph. D. Thesis title: Defence and communication in the Asian Dwarf Honeybee Apis florea Fabricius [2003]
Thesis title: The social and genetic organisation of the queenless, Ponerine ant, Diacamma ceylonense [2003]
IISER Fellow, Behaviour and Ecology Lab, C. V. Raman Building, Dept. of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
Thesis title: Dominance behaviour and regulation of reproduction in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata [2002]
Dr.
Ashok Gopinath, Ph. D.
Post-Doc associated with: Dave M. Lin
Department of Biomedical Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-6401
Thesis title: Intra-Colony relatedness and population
genetic structure in the queenless, Ponerine ant, Diacamma [2002]
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, USA
Thesis title:Organization of work in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata [1997]
Special Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, USA
Thesis title: Social organisation and cooperation in genetically mixed colonies of the primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidia marginata [1996]
Assistant Professor,School of Life Sciences, JNU, Delhi
Thesis title: Colony founding and the evolution of eusociality in a primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidia marginata [1995]
Thesis title: Dominance relationships in the social organisation of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata (Lep.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) [1994]
Dr.
K. Chandrashekara, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor,Department of Entomology,
University. of Agricultural Sciences, G.K.V.K., Bangalore
Thesis title: Social biology of
the tropical primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata (Lep.)
(Hymenoptera: Vespidae) [1991]
National Programme Director, WWF Malaysia49 Jalan 23/15 Taman SEAPetaling JayaSelangor 47400 Kuala Lumpur
Thesis title: Studies on the mechanism of nestmate discrimination in a primitively eusocial wasp : Implications for the evolution of eusociality [1990]