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Interns and undergraduate thesis students

Current undergraduate thesis students and interns

NIKHIL KOLLINS –  INTERN (July 2025-?)

I am a BS-MS graduate from IISER TVM. I am broadly interested in entomology and evolutionary ecology. Currently I am an intern working with PhD student Sonali on Grassland ecology and insect identification from Challekere.

NANDURAJ  S  – INTERN (July 2025-?)

I have completed my graduation from IISER TVM and I am really interested in studying plant-pollinator interactions. Currently, I’m working on the oviposition preferences of butterflies on their host plants, as well as the performance of butterfly caterpillars on various host plants. I’m working with PhD student Anaswar.

SHUBHANGI SHANDILYA – INTERN

Central University (BBAU) Lucknow (June-Oct 2025)

I am working on a butterfly diversity project, where I analyze year-long data collected from three sites. The dataset includes records of butterfly species observed along with environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, rainfall, and wind speed. Using R for data analysis, I study how these factors influence butterfly diversity and abundance.

PRANKUSH BANSAL – UG INTERN

Indian Institute of Science (2024-)

Prankush is  a Biology major pursuing a Bachelor of Science  at IISc. He is interested in Behavioural and community Ecology.  In PoCoEco he is working  on Dung Beetle Morphology and Diversity with Dr. Suvarna Khadakkar. In 2025 he started doing his UG project in Kavita Isvaran’s lab on life history trait variation.

Past undergraduate thesis students and interns (incomplete list)

Snata Chakraborty – PhD Intern/visitor

University of Portsmouth, UK (Aug- Sept 2025)

Snata is collaborating with the PoCo Eco lab  to learn life history of parasitoids. . She is studying the host-parasitoid interactions between an Eurytomid wasp and the tropical tent web spider, invasive in Florida and Brazil. Snata first pursued Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Anthropology from the U. of Calcutta and the U, of Delhi, respectively. She then moved to Munich for a MSc in Evolution, Ecology, and Systematics at Ludwig Maximilians Universität.

Anton Toms – MSc Intern

Christ University, Bangalore (Dec 2024-June 2025)

  Anton worked on the behavior of foraging  Trichogramma chilonis with MSc project student  Rajnish, and on the fate of Corcyra cephalonica eggs in the field with MSc project student Vandana.

ANIKET RAY- UG THESIS STUDENT–>Intern

Indian Institute of Science (May 2023-2025)

Aniket did his undergraduate project on modeling aspects of species invasion. His thesis is titled “Exploring Role of Propagules in Invasion Biology through Literature Review and Simple Simulations.” Now has moved on to working on his MSc modeling insecticide effects in multi-enemy pest insect systems.  

PRASHANT DALAWAI- THESIS STUDENT

College of Forestry, Ponnampet, Karnataka (2023-2024)

I am a final year BSc student. I am working as an intern on the project by Dr Suvarna Khadakkar. For my final year course work I am working on ‘Dung beetle diversity in Sacred Groves and Coffee plantations in Kodagu district of Karnataka.

CHETHANA NAIR, UG SUMMER INTERN

Indian Institute of Sciences (2023)

I’m a second year-completed undergrad from IISc trying to find her place in the whole wide academic landscape. My interests align with the lab in population ecology as well as community-wide interactions, as I explore ecology better.

NITHINSAKTHI T, UG Thesis student

Indian Institute of Science, Undergrad senior thesis project (Jan -May 2023)

Literature survey of modeling foraging behavior of parasitoids under competition and where resources are ephemeral.

ADITYA NAYAK, Summer Intern

Indian Institute of Science, undergraduate intern (Summer 2022)

BS-MS student from IISER Mohali. Aditya worked on finding parasitoids of Lepidoptera on Citrus, and did a literature review of change in genome size assoiated with plant domestication.

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