Uma Ramakrishnan

Uma Ramakrishnan is an Indian molecular ecologist at the NCBS, TIFR, Bangalore, where she works on population genetics of South East Asia, the evolutionary history of mammals, conservation and biogeography.[1][2][3][4]

Education

She completed a bachelor's degree in Physics with PCM (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics) since she wanted to do ecology and evolutionary biology. Later she went on do a PhD from University of California, San Diego, on population genetics and the evolutionary history of mammals, more specifically the effects of mating systems on genetic variation. Her post-doctoral research focussed on genetic impacts of climate change.[3]

She received a Ramanujan Fellowship in 2005 - given by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) is awarded to scientists and engineers to take up scientific research positions in India, which enabled her to set up her lab at NCBS.

Work

The goal of her lab is to chronicle human populations through the genomic history in South East Asia; and conservation of threatened mammals of the Indian sub continent, specifically tigers, Indian wild cats, leopards and Macaque monkeys.

She has been pioneering methods to methods to conduct population monitoring and landscape/population genetics with tiger fecal samples.

Since 2015 she has focussed on contrasting population structure between commensal and wild rodents, drivers of diversification in montane bird communities in the western ghats.

She is a member of National Board for Wildlife, a Ramanujan fellow and a DAE Outstanding scientist.

She has also been a Fulbright scholar at the Stanford University for the academic year 2015-2016.[5]

Awards

  1. Parker/Gentry Award by Field Museum, Chicago[2]

Publications

  • Commensalism facilitates gene flow in mountains: a comparison between two Rattus species
  • Identifying species, sex and individual tigers and leopards in the Malenad-Mysore Tiger Landscape, Western Ghats, India - Mondol, S., Kumar, N.S., Gopalaswamy, A. et al. Conservation Genet Resour (2015) 7: 353. doi:10.1007/s12686-014-0371-9
  • Reassessment of the distribution and threat status of the Western Ghats endemic bird, Nilgiri Pipit Anthus nilghiriensis - V. V. Robin*,†, C. K. Vishnudas* and Uma Ramakrishnan

References

  1. ↑ Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan
  2. 1 2 "Burning bright: Award-winning ecologist Uma Ramakrishnan speaks of her tiger conservation work". Firstpost. 2016-04-30. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
  3. 1 2 "Meet The Woman Who Is On A Mission To Save India's Tigers". The Logical Indian. 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
  4. ↑ "Uma Ramakrishnan « CEHG Symposium". web.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
  5. ↑ "Uma Ramakrishnan | Fulbright Scholar Program". www.cies.org. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
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