Diptarup Nandi
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Population Genetics
- Quantitative Genetics
- Evolutionary Ecology
- Human Population History
- Theoretical Biology
- Computer Simulations
- Biostatistics
- Machine Learning
- Data Analysis
Biography
Diptarup is an evolutionary biologist, with interests at the interface of evolutionary genetics and ecology. His current research focuses on understanding how stochastic processes affect the causes and consequences of natural selection.
He primarily uses a combination of statistical and simulation-based models to generate testable expectations and analyse population genetic and ecological data. He is also interested in statistics, particularly in applying machine learning-based approaches to analyse biological data. Along with his major academic interests, he likes to explore history of science, specifically that of evolutionary biology.
He obtained his Master’s in Life Sciences and PhD, as part of the integrated PhD programme at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. He carried out his PhD thesis work at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, wherein he studied mate search and mating decisions based on acoustic communication using a combination of theoretical and empirical approaches.
Before joining Azim Premji University, he worked on human evolutionary genetics at the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG), West Bengal. As part of this work, he studied the evolutionary mechanisms that shaped the genetic diversity across several human populations of South Asia.
Apart from reading history and fiction, he seeks solace in music and sports.
Courses
Animal Behaviour
Understanding behaviour of animals from an evolutionary and ecological perspective.
Evolutionary Biology
Examines patterns and processes by which evolution occurs and shapes life forms.
Introduction to Organisms and Ecosystems
Focuses on the organismal, and ecosystem level understanding of Biology.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Bhowmick, I.P., Pandey, A., Subbarao, S.K., Pebam, R., Majumder, T., Nath, A., Nandi D., Basu, A. et. al. (2022). Diagnosis of indigenous non-malarial vector-borne infections from malaria negative samples from community and rural hospital surveillance in Dhalai district, Tripura, North-East India. Diagnostics, 12(2), 362. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12020362
- Nandi, D., Suswaram, M, & Balakrishnan, R. (2019). A sensory ecological perspective on mate sampling strategies using simulation models and an empirical test. bioRxiv, 533489. https://doi.org/10.1101/533489
- Nandi, D., & Balakrishnan, R. (2016). Spatio-temporal dynamics of field cricket calling behaviour: Implications for mate search and mate choice. PloS ONE, 11, e0165807. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165807
- Raghuram, H., Deb, R., Nandi, N., & Balakrishnan, R. (2014). Silent katydid females are at higher risk of bat predation than acoustically signalling katydid males. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282 (1798), 20142319. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2319
- Balakrishnan, R., Bahuleyan, J., Nandi, D., & Jain, M. (2014). Modelling the effects of chorus species composition and caller density on acoustic masking interference in multispecies choruses of crickets and katydids. Ecological Informatics, 21, 50 – 58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2013.11.006
- Nandi, D., & Balakrishnan, R. (2013). Call intensity is a repeatable and dominant acoustic feature determining male call attractiveness in a field cricket. Animal Behaviour, 86(5), 1003 – 1012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.09.003
- Jaiswara, R., Nandi, D., & Balakrishnan, R. (2013). Examining the effectiveness of discriminant function analysis and cluster analysis in species identification of male field crickets based on their calling songs. PLoS ONE 8, e75930. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075930