DEST Taxonomy Course in Norway
Co-Supervised PhD student, Ramvilas Ghosh participated in the 10-day long DEST (Distributed European School of Taxonomy) course on ‘Basics of Taxonomy’ at Tollboden, Drobak, Norway from 28th October to 08th November 2019. read more →
Editorial board of Biodiversity and Conservation
Rajeev Raghavan has joined the editorial board of the leading international journal – Biodiversity and Conservation (Impact Factor: 3.14) published by Springer Nature. read more →
IUCN SSC Leaders Meeting
Rajeev Raghavan attended the 4th IUCN SSC Leaders Meeting at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in the capacity of the IUCN SSC Freshwater Fish Red List Authority Coordinator. read more →
SCCS Bangalore
Visiting PhD Student Sreesha Gadhadharan presented a poster on the fish diversity of the Wayanad hills (part of the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot) at the Student Conference on Conservation Science – Bangalore read more →
New snakehead fish named after lab PI
A new species of snakehead, Channa rara was described from the northern part of the Western Ghats and named after Dr. Rajeev Raghavan for his contributions to freshwater fish taxonomy and conservation! read more →
Miniature subterranean Pangio discovered
Together with PhD student VK Anoop, Rajeev Raghavan and co authors from Natural History Museum London, Malabar Awareness and Rescue Center and IISER Pune described a unique subterranean species of eel loach from homestead wells in Calicut. read more →
Visit of scientists from ZSL
Colleagues from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Dr. Jyoti Das, Asia Program Manager of EDGE for Existence Project, and Benjamin Tapley, Curator of Herpetology at London Zoo visited the Rajeev Lab and delivered talks to students and staff of the University. read more →
Talk on freshwater biodiversity
Dr. Rajeev Raghavan gave an invited talk on the issues and challenges for freshwater biodiversity conservation with particular reference to protected areas as part of the inauguration of the association activities of the Department of Zoology, Christian College, Chengannur on 25th September 2019. read more →
Back to alma mater!
PhD student Arya Sidharthan delivered a talk on career paths related to freshwater biodiversity conservation to the undergraduate and graduate students of Zoology at the Christian College, Chengannur (also her alma mater) on 25th September 2019. read more →
Practical Course on DNA Taxonomy and Phylogeny
PhD students Arya Sidharthan, VK Anoop and Sreesha Gadhadharan participated in the two-day Practical Course on DNA Taxonomy and Phylogeny organized by the Satyabhama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai on 6th and 7th September 2019. read more →
