Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium, Cebu, Philippines

Co-Supervised PhD student, Ramvilas Ghosh is on a two-week tour of South East Asia, attending the 4th Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium at Cebu, Philippines and visiting the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in Singapore. read more →

New fish species from the Western Ghats

A new species of badid fish, Dario urops has been described from the Western Ghats of Kerala by PhD student VK Anoop and colleagues from the Natural History Museum, London and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune. read more →

4th Asia-Pacific Coral Reef Symposium

Ramvilas Ghosh, co-supervised PhD student, is attending the 4th Asia-Pacific Coral Reef Symposium where he will give a talk on the issues and challenges for octocoral research in India. read more →

Anoop in Bhutan

PhD student Anoop VK was in Bhutan at the invitation of Prof. D.B Gurung at the Royal University of Bhutan’s, College of Natural Resources (CNR), Lobesa for a two week period in May. Whilst he was in Bhutan, Anoop trained the members of Prof. Gurung’s laboratory in molecular taxonomy techniques and participated in field surveys. read more →

Rajeev Raghavan joins the Editorial Board of ‘Nature Scientific Reports’

Rajeev Raghavan has been appointed as a member of the Editorial Board of the open-access mega journal ‘Scientific Reports’ published by the Nature Publishing Group. read more →

Anoop studies Indian fish types the Natural History Museum, London

PhD student VK Anoop spent a month at the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH), studying what is probably the biggest collection of Indian freshwater fishes in the world, with the help of a grant from the Cambridge University, Student Conference on Conservation Science. read more →

New paper in Aquatic Conservation throws light on the exploitation of threatened freshwater fish for the pet trade

A new paper published in ‘Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems’ throws light for the first time the impacts of freshwater fish collections for the aquarium pet trade. With Dr. Rajeev Raghavan as the lead author and long time lab collaborators, Neelesh Dahanukar, Siby Philip and Anvar Ali as co authors, this paper looks at.. read more →

Anoop’s visit to the Zoological Society of London

PhD student VK Anoop spent two days with the fish group at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) learning the science behind breeding and husbandry of threatened freshwater fish species. Thanks to Benjamin Tapley for the hospitality! read more →

Student Conference on Conservation Science, Cambridge

Anoop made sure he is right in the front of the group photo at the 19th Student Conference on Conservation Science held at the University of Cambridge from 27th to 29th March 2018. read more →

Student Conference on Conservation Science

PhD student Anoop VK is in the United Kingdom after receiving a bursary and internship grant from the University of Cambridge to present a poster at the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) and subsequently study the Indian fish collections at the Natural History Museum, London. read more →