Fascinated by the biodiversity and its maintenance, our lab explores asymmetry in arthropod evolution using interdisciplinary approaches including genomic interrogations, machine learning, laboratory-based functional experiments, simulation modeling, natural history collections, species discovery, data mobilization through citizen science and ecological (keep reading)…
Fascinated by biodiversity and its maintenance, our lab explores asymmetry in arthropod evolution using interdisciplinary approaches including genomic interrogations, machine (keep reading)…
Lab news & events
February 2026. 1st LaGenomics workshop (monikered by a participant using LaCONES and Genomics) led by Gopi and Siddharth at CCMB, paired with the Discerning the Eastern Ghats symposium convened by G. Umapathy received an amazing response with speakers and participants from across the country.
February 2026. Welcome Neha Tambe from the D.Y.P. University, Pune, Maharashtra, India for her short research internship to the lab.
January 2026. First publication from the newly minted lab is out! Now we know the ancient gene linkages in ticks and mites. Check out the story covered by The Hindu.
October 2025. Siddharth is honored to conduct the arachnid workshop at the Indica School of Field Ecology and Conservation at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
June 2025. Aakash Kumar Pathak from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India is visiting for a few weeks for his doctoral dissertation research.
June 2025. Welcome Shreya Salunkhe from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India for her Dissertation Research Training Program at the lab.
May 2025. Welcome Meghana Balija from Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India for Summer Training Program 2025 and the very first student in the lab.
March 2025. Here we go!
SpiderIndia
A community science initiative to map spider diversity