Siddharth Kulkarni
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, United States
Fascinated by the biodiversity and its maintenance, I explore 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)…
Siddharth Kulkarni
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, W.I.
Fascinated by biodiversity and its maintenance, I explore asymmetry in arthropod evolution using interdisciplinary approaches including genomic interrogations, machine (keep reading)…
Research Awards
National Geographic Society Early Career Grant and more ...
SpiderIndia
A community science initiative to map spider diversity
Publications
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- Siddharth Kulkarni, Robert Kallal, Hannah Wood, Dimitar Dimitrov, Gonzalo Giribet & Gustavo Hormiga (2021) Interrogating genomic-scale data to resolve recalcitrant nodes in the Spider Tree of Life. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 1-13.
- Robert Kallal, Siddharth Kulkarni, Dimitar Dimitrov, Ligia Benavides, Miquel Arnedo, Gonzalo Giribet & Gustavo Hormiga (2021) Converging on the orb: denser taxon sampling elucidates spider phylogeny and new analytical methods support repeated evolution of the orb web. Cladistics. 1-19.
- Siddharth Kulkarni, Hannah Wood, Michael Lloyd, Gustavo Hormiga (2020) Spider-specific probe set for ultraconserved elements offers new perspectives on the evolutionary history of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Molecular Ecology Resources.1-19.
Conferences
Presentation award at the International Congress of Arachnology in Christchurch, New Zealand (2019) on the evolution of miniature orb-weavers and major spider lineages.