Assistant Professor,
School of Biological Sciences
debrittik@niser.ac.in
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science
M.Sc University of Calcutta
B303*, B303** - Ecology (August - December)
B306*, B306**, B706 - Evolutionary Biology (Jan - May)
R Deb, S Modak, R Balakrishnan
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1941), 20202229, 2020
Host dietary specialization and neutral assembly shape gut bacterial communities of wild dragonflies
R Deb, A Nair, D Agashe
PeerJ 7, e8058, 2019
Diversity matters: Effects of density compensation in pollination service during rainfall shift
R Mukherjee, R Deb, SM Devy
Ecology and evolution 9 (17), 9701-9711, 2019
Tree Crickets can make Optimal Tools
N Mhatre*, R Malkin*, R Deb*, R Balakrishnan, D Robert
INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 59 (1), E157, 2019
Tree crickets optimize the acoustics of baffles to exaggerate their mate-attraction signal
Natasha Mhatre*, Robert Malkin*, Rittik Deb*, Rohini Balakrishnan, Daniel Robert
eLife, 2017
Mate choice, mate sampling and baffling behaviour in the tree cricket Oecanthus henryi
R Deb, 2017
H Raghuram, R Deb, D Nandi, R Balakrishnan
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1798), 20142319, 2015
The opportunity for sampling: the ecological context of female mate choice
R Deb, R Balakrishnan
Behavioral Ecology 25 (4), 967-974, 2014
A rain forest dusk chorus: cacophony or sounds of silence?
M Jain, S Diwakar, J Bahuleyan, R Deb, R Balakrishnan
Evolutionary Ecology, 1-22, 2013
R Deb, M Bhattacharya, R Balakrishnan
Animal Behaviour 84 (1), 137-149, 2012
Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution, Bio-acoustics, Gut-microbial ecology, Community dynamics
Evolutionary Ecology Lab (EEL@NISER)
I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in understanding the forces and mechanisms that shape an organism’s evolutionary trajectory. Biotic interactions between communities, populations, and organisms are critical drivers of organismal evolution. Modern sequencing techniques have revealed that these interactions are not limited to the macroscopic world but also shape micro-organismal communities. At the confluence of the two worlds, macroscopic hosts and the microbes interact and shape each other’s evolutionary trajectory. I want to trace these biotic interactions at different organizational levels in my research, starting from host communities to individual hosts, host-microbiome interaction, and microbial communities to understand their impact on organismal evolution. I use wild and laboratory-reared insect populations as the model systems for my research.
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