Nandini presents our crowdsourced palm squirrel work titled "Cataloguing and mapping life of India: Biodiversity informatics in India", a webinar that is part of the series Biodiversity Conversations: India’s opportunities and challenges.

Pooja Gupta begins her art-science research scholarship with Creature Conserve in collaboration with the Sciurid Lab.

Nandini begins her term as the Secretary of the Ethological Society of India.

Amira Sophia SP, Masters's student at AVC Mayiladuthurai College, submits her Master's thesis titled "A study on the acoustics of Malabar giant squirrel, Ratufa indica, in Kodaikanal".

CitSci India 2020 virtual conference, where the lab presents two posters - one on Squirrels (Bishwarup, Senan, Swati, Aravind) and one on Moths (Harsha, Suyash, Senan, Viral). Nandini is on the Steering Committee of the event and co-author on a poster with researchers from SACON.

Eight lab members present talks, speed talks, and posters at the 59th Annual Conference of the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation at Coimbatore between 02-06 July 2023. More here.

Nandini is an invited panellist at the Arctic Circle India Forum Meeting, 3- 4 May 2025, New Delhi, where she talks about our work on small mammals in the trans-Himalaya.

Nandini is an invited speaker at the Healing Earth 5.0 conference hosted by Ashoka University, New Delhi, between 7-8 May 2025, where she talks about how small mammals adapt to their environments.

Shreya Peter, Masters student from MIT Pune, submits her thesis. She worked with the Sciurid Lab on palm squirrel feeding habits.

Aritra Bhattacharya, Masters student from Pondicherry University, submits and defends his thesis. He worked with the Sciurid Lab on palm squirrel nesting habits across elevations.

Nandini is an invited speaker at the Genome Informatics Across Scales Conference at NCBS-TIFR, between 23rd – 26th April, 2025.

Nandini is a panelist at the India Science Fest 2025, held at Ferguson College, Pune.

Manzoor Dar successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled "Assessment of species diversity, functional traits, and dietary signatures of plants in relation to feeding ecology of critically endangered Cervus hanglu hanglu (Hangul) in Dachigam National Park" at the University of Kashmir. Manzoor was co-advised by Prof Manzoor Shah (University of Kashmir) and Nandini.

The Sciurid Lab wishes you a year of small mammals and adventure!

Three from the Sciurid Lab get awarded degrees at the Convocation - Nivetha Murugesan and Harsha Kumar get their PhD degrees (the first two from the Sciurid Lab!), and Kavitha Unni gets her Master's degree (our seventh in-house MS thesis).

Nandini Rajamani attends Sci Foo Camp 2024 in Cambridge, UK.

Nandini presents gives a talk synthesising our work at colour and camouflage in palm squirrels at the Understanding Behaviour conference, IISER Kolkata between 27-30 June 2023.

Swati Udayraj presents a talk on our work on the Squirrels of India database at the Cit Sci India conference. Talk title: Building a Database using Unconventional Sources: Squirrels of India, by Swati Udayraj, Senan D'Souza, Aravind P S, Nandini Rajamani

Swati Udayraj presents a talk on our work on the Squirrels of India database at the TDWG 2022 conference. Talk title: Building a Database using Unconventional Sources: Squirrels of India, by Swati Udayraj, Senan D'Souza, Aravind P S, Nandini Rajamani.

The Ladakh field season draws to a close. Big ups to the team of interns and lab-members who helped in data collection. Shout-out to 'Technology for Wildlife Foundation' with whom the Sciurid Lab is collaborating, on some exciting drone technology.

The Eastern Ghats Symposium 2022 was held on 30th April and 1st May at the Marasa Sarovar, Tirupati, organised by Dr. Nandini Rajamani and team. The symposium brought together researchers, managers and policy-makers who have worked in the landscape in the last two decades or more, in an attempt to consolidate existing knowledge, and promote dialogue and collaborations.

A Day of Life - the first annual Biology Day at IISER Tirupati. Talk by Nandini about how the lab studies adaptations at various scales. Two posters from the Sciurid Lab-one featuring work in the Trans-Himalayas (Senan and Harsha) and another on selection for signals in tree squirrels (Nivetha, Shijisha, Amira, Suyash).

A reconnaissance field trip/ joint lab retreat - Sciurid and Bird labs at Pulicat.

Talk at SV University (Nandini)

Two talks (Harsha, Nandini) and a poster (Nivetha) at the National Symposium on Avian Biology, organised at IISER Tirupati.

Bioblitz at the Tirupati Bird Festival. Talk by Nandini, massive participation by the lab (nature walks, workshops, etc).

The first Tirupati Urban Diversity Blitz, organised by the Eco-Evo labs at IISER Tirupati!

The Tirupati Biodiversity website goes live.

Invited Talk at “Topics in Biology 2019: Evolution and Ecology” at IMSC Chennai (Nandini).

Athira Aravind, Masters student at Mar Athanasios College For Advanced Studies, submits her Master's thesis titled "Amplification and Sequence Analysis of Nuclear gene (EMB) of Indian Euphorbia species".

Evolution 2019 meeting (ASN/SSB/SSE) at Providence, RI, USA. Talk (Nandini) and poster (Harsha).

Invited Seminar at IIT Tirupati (Nandini)

Talk at SACON (Nandini)

Poster presentations (Aravind, Dhanesh, Senan, Swati) at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Ethological Society of India, and a poster award (Dhanesh and Aravind).

The first Sciurid Lab retreat, at Periyar & Kodaikanal.

Poster presentation by Nandini at YIM 2018, Thiruvananthapuram.

Talk by Nandini at the Humboldt Kolleg on ‘Climate Change and Energy Options’ at Aurangabad.