Recent Invited TALKS

1. Drosophila Ecology. "Drosophila melanogaster as a model” organized by the Skill Development Centre (SDC), BEICH RUSA.2.0 and Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.
Date: 27 Jan 2021
2. Water balance in insects: macrophysiology to molecules. National Conference on "Evolution and Adaptation: Current Scenario", Institute of Science, GITAM, Visakhapatnam, Orissa, India
Date: 10-11 Dec 2020
3. TRP channels role in thermal preference: A fly story. Bioinformatics Centre, Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur, India
​Date: 21 Jan 2020
4. Thermal preference in Drosophila: it's not that simple. ISEB2: Indo-Swiss Meeting on Evolutionary Biology. Centre for Human Genetics, Bangalore, India
Date: 12-14 Dec 2019
5. Molecules matter: Insect cuticular hydrocarbons. ISEB1: Celebrating Ecology and Evolution in India. First Conference of the Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists. JNCASR, Bangalore, India
Date: 24-25 October 2019.
6. Seasonality and eco-evolutionary dynamics. H N B Garhwal University Campus Chauras/Birma Campus, Tehari, Uttrakhand, India. 
Date: 18 September 2019. 
7. Water Balance in Insects. H N B Garhwal University Campus Badshahithaul, Srinagar, Uttrakhand, India.
Date: 20 September 2019. 
8. Impact and risks to ecosystem. Global Centre for Environment and Energy. Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India.
Date: 23 August 2019. 
9. Natural variation, laboratory selection, and genomics of desiccation tolerance in Drosophila. International Centre for Theoretical Sciences-TIFR Bangaluru (3rd Bangalore School on Population Genetics & Evolution), Bangaluru, India
http://live.icts.res.in/videos/video/2956/
https://www.icts.res.in/sites/default/files/PGE2018-2018-03-15-Subhash-Rajpurohit.pdf
Date: 15 March 2018. 
10. Understanding geographical clines: seasonality and eco-evolutionary dynamics. IISER Pune, Maharastra, India. 
http://www.iiserpune.ac.in/colloquia-seminars/579
Date: 14 Feb 2017. 
11. Adaptation to spatial and temporal environmental variants in Drosophila. Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangaluru, India. 
http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/new/?q=node/449
Date: 25 Oct 2016. 
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Blogs
The little Fruit-fly and big Climate Change: Short story of Drosophila melanogaster and the Flyfolk. 
https://ahduni.edu.in/blog-detail-v1

Interviews/Discussions
1.  Mighty Evolution! Is Evolution a Hoax? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBwKY6QQurQ 
2. What does a fruit-fly tell us about water?
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Dr-Shubhash-Rajpurohit
https://www.facebook.com/pg/projectotenga/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2034780973469005
3. Panel Discussion; To mark the launch of the Global Centre for Environment and Energy at Ahmedabad University, a panel discussion was organized titled No ‘Plan B’: Looking Through the Sustainability Lens.
https://ahduni.edu.in/events/ahmedabad-university-launches-global-centre-for-environment-and-energy
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Projects
City Nature Challenge 2018 Ahmedabad, India
April 27-29, 2018
We, humans, share Ahmedabad with a large number of organisms living in our neighbourhoods! Let's try to find out what's out there! Join us (Rajpurohit Lab @ the Division of Biological & Life Sciences, School of Arts & Sciences, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad) in this citizen science adventure to catalogue our city's biodiversity!
Participation is very simple. Download the iNaturalist app to your mobile phone; then, from April 27-30, 2018, use the app to take photos of plants, trees, insects, animals, fungi, moss or other organisms you see and the iNaturalist community will help you identify it.
Note: For this project, our geographical boundary is outer ring road. Anything inside the outer ring road is advised to go in this work. Please keep your mobile coordinates open.
Stay tuned to us for further updates.
The City Nature Challenge is organized by Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and California Academy of Sciences, USA.
RESULTS...
May 1-3, 2018
http://citynaturechallenge.org/


In News
1. Fruit flies' microbes shape their evolution
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190917193631.htm
​https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/uop-ffm091719.php#


Scientific Conference/Meetings Presentations

1. ISEB2: Indo-Swiss Meeting on Evolutionary Biology. Date: 12-14 Dec 2019. Centre for Human Genetics, Bangalore, India (Invited Talk: Thermal preference in Drosophila: It's not that simple).

2. ISEB1: Celebrating Ecology and Evolution in India. First Conference of the Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists. Date: 24-25 October 2019. Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India (Invited Talk: Molecules matter: cuticular hydrocarbons).

3. The 3rd Bangalore School on Population Genetics & Evolution. Date: 15 March 2018. International Centre for Theoretical Sciences-TIFR Bangalore, India (Invited Talk: Natural variation, laboratory selection, and genomics of desiccation tolerance in Drosophila).

4. The 5th Asia Pacific Drosophila Research Conference APDRC and Indian Drosophila Research Conference. Date: 6-10 Jan 2020. Indian Institute of Science & Education, Pune, India (Poster Presentation with Homica Arya: But first, give me water!: Drosophila adults refrain from copulation when dehydrated).

5. The 3rd Biennial Indian Drosophila Research Conference (InDRC). 6-9 Dec 2017. Indian Institute of Science & Education, Bhopal, India (Poster Presentation- Rajpurohit et al.: Post-eclosion temperature effects on insect cuticular hydrocarbon profiles).

6. European Society of Evolutionary Biology. 10-14 Aug 2015. Lausanne, Switzerland (Oral Presentation- Rajpurohit et al.: Allelic variation at TrpA1 and trpl regulated thermal-mediated behavior in the lab and field in Drosophila).

7. European Society of Evolutionary Biology. 10-14 Aug 2015. Lausanne, Switzerland (Poster Presentation- Rajpurohit et al.: Eco-evolutionary dynamics in response to seasonal adaptation in Drosophila).

8. Drosophila Research Conference. Date: March 4-8, 2015. Chicago, USA (Oral Presentation- Bergland et al.: Genome-wide test of a life-history model underlying seasonal adaptation in Drosophila).

9. The 5th International Symposium on the Environmental Physiology of Ectotherms and Plants (ISEPEP). Date 12-16 Aug 2013. Ontario, Canada (Poster Presentation-Nedved & Rajpurohit: Clinal variation in ecophysiological traits in drosophilids of the Indian subcontinent).
 
10. EVOLUTION 2013. Date June 21-25, 2013. Salt Lake City, USA. (Poster Presentation-Rajpurohit et al.: Spatial and temporal variation in drought tolerance in North American populations of Drosophila melanogaster).  
 
11. EVOLUTION 2013. Date June 21-25, 2013. Salt Lake City, USA. (Poster Presentation-Etges et al.: Transcriptomics of cuticular hydrocarbon expression in a desert drosophilid: age and temperature/desiccation stress).
 
12. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology SICB 2013. Date: 3-7 Jan 2013. San Francisco, USA (Oral Presentation-Gibbs et al. Testing melanism-desiccation hypothesis using experimental evolution).
 
13. EVOLUTION 2011. Date: 17-21 June 2011. Norman, Oklahoma, USA (Poster Presentation-Etges et al.: Ecological genomics of stage and age specific responses to different host plants in populations of Drosophila mojavensis).
 
14. APS Intersociety Meeting: Global Change & Global Science: Comparative Physiology in a Changing World. Denver, Colorado, USA. Date: 4-7 Aug 2010. Westminster, Colorado, USA (Poster Presentation-Rajpurohit et al.: Transcriptome analysis of desiccation in desert adapted Drosophila mojavensis).
 
15. EVOLUTION 2010. Date: 25-29 Jun 2010. Portland, Oregon, USA (Poster Presentation-Etges et al.: Ecological genomics of host use and mating status in Drosophila mojavensis).
 
16. The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology SICB. Date: 3-7 Jan 2010. Seattle, WA, USA (Poster Presentation-Marlon et al.: Evolution of gene expression in larval fat body of stress-selected Drosophila).
 
17. The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology SICB. Date: 3-7 Jan 2010. Seattle, WA, USA (Poster Presentation-Gibbs et al.: Ecological genomics of host plant adaptation and stress in desert Drosophila).
 
18. Drosophila Research Conference. Date: 4-8 Mar 2009. Chicago, USA (Poster Presentation-Rajpurohit et al.: Drosophilids as indicators of changing climatic conditions).
 
19. Gordon Research Conference on Evolutionary and Ecological Functional Genomics. Date: 12-17 Jul 2009. New Hampshire, USA (Poster Presentation-Rajpurohit et al.: Evolution of gene expression in larval fat body of stress-selected Drosophila).
 
20. Gordon Research Conference on Evolutionary and Ecological Functional Genomics. Date: 12-17 Jul 2009. New Hampshire, USA (Poster Presentation-Oliveira et al.: Ecological genomics of host plant adaptation and stress in desert Drosophila).
 
21. International Workshop on The Evolution of Sexual Size Dimorphism. Date: 4-7 Sep 2005. Locarno, Switzerland (Poster Presentation-Rajpurohit et al.: Morphometric variations in altitudinal populations of three Drosophila species).  
 
22. The 8th Japanese Drosophila Research Conference. Date: 2-4 Jul 2006. Osaka, Japan (Poster Presentation-Rajpurohit et al.: Adaptations to altitudinally varying colder environments: Correlated changes in melanism, desiccation tolerance and reproductive fitness traits in Drosophila immigrans).