Amitabh Joshi

Biography

Amitabh Joshi obtained a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Botany (1986) and M.Sc. in Genetics (1988) from Delhi University, India, and a Ph.D. in Genetics (1993) from Washington State University, Pullman, working with John N. Thompson and Michael E. Moody on variation in the outcomes of coevolution among competing species of fruitflies. During this time, he also did theoretical work on the cost of sexual reproduction and the evolution of extreme ecological specialization. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Laurence D. Mueller at University of California, Irvine (1994-96), primarily on adaptation to larval and adult crowding in fruitflies. In 1996, he joined the faculty of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India, where he is presently Professor and Chairman of the Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit. He has been Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Berlin, during 2001.

Research Interest

Evolutionary genetics and population ecology