Funding & Awards
Our current research has been generously funded by:
4. SERB Core Research Grant 2019-2022
Title Cuticle soft or hard: How do insects balance water?
Title Cuticle soft or hard: How do insects balance water?
3. SERB-DST Ramanujan Fellowship 2018-2023
Title Fly populations response to warming
Title Fly populations response to warming
2. University Research Board- Ahmedabad University 2018-2021 (Startup Research Grant)
1. UPENN Peachey Environmental Biology Term Fund 2015
Awards/Fellowship
- European Molecular Biology Organization, EMBO Fellowship, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK (2022)
- Chairman's Award for Research, Ahmedabad University-Ahmedabad, India (2021)
- Ramanujan Fellowship, SERB-DST, Government of India (2018-2023)
- The American Physiological Society Research Recognition Travel Award - Westminister. USA (2010)
- Visiting Scholar grant under Indo-Israel Cultural Exchange Program funded through Israel Government to visit the Institute of Evolution, The University of Haifa, ISRAEL (2007-2008).
- Riken Kobe Institute Center for Development Biology travel grant - Awaji Island, JAPAN (2007).
- Association for the study of animal behavior (ASAB) travel grant - Locarno, SWITZERLAND (2005).
- Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship from the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, INDIA (1998).