CURRENT MEMBERS

Dr. Rajeev Raghavan │ PI and Group Leader │ Google Scholar │ Twitter/X │Wikipedia │ Research Gate

Krishnaveni │ PhD Student 2025 – current

Naseeba Mariyam │ Co-Supervised PhD Student 2026 – current

Lekiningroy Dann │PhD Student 2023 – current

Abisha C │ PhD Student 2022 – current

Kiran Raj │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2024 – current

Shubham Rao │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2024 – current

Meryl │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2024 – current

Navami Sudharsan │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2025 – current

Salini │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2025 – current

Gokulnath R │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2025 – current

LAB AFFILIATES

Remya L Sundar │ Lab Associate 2025 – current │Lab Manager 2015-2024│ currently PhD student at the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

Dr. Arya Sidharthan │ Lab Associate 2025 – current │PhD Student 2017-2023│ currently Scientist at the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi, India.

Dr. Anoop VK │ Lab Associate 2025 – current │PhD Student 2017-2025 │currently JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan

FORMER MEMBERS

Dr. Unmesh Katwate │ PhD Student 2017-2024│currently Scientist at the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Mumbai, India

Dr. Shalu Kannan │ Co-Supervised PhD Student 2017-2024│ currently Research Associate at the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), India

Dr. Ramvilas Ghosh │ Co-Supervised PhD Student 2017-2024

Afrin Banu │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2023 – 2025 │currently Project Fellow at the Tamil Nadu J Jayalalitha Fisheries University (TNJFU), Tuticorin, India

Sanchu Prakash │Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2023 – 2025

Muralikrishna Gurugubelli │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2022-2024

Saurav Saha│ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2022-2024│currently Young Professional II at the ICAR – National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow, India

Rayees Mohammed │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2021-2023 │currently PhD student at the ICAR – National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR), Agatti Centre, Lakshadweep

Anju Joseph │ Junior Research Fellow 2021-2022│ currently at the Fisheries Survey of India (FSI), Kochi, India

Ravi Kiran │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2020-2022 │ currently with CP Aquaculture Pvt. Ltd, Bhimavaram, India

Ryan Babu │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2020-2022 │Senior Research Fellow 2022-2023 │ currently at Matsyafed, Government of Kerala.

Krishnaprasad KP │ Senior Research Fellow 2022-2023│ currently Research Fellow at the Faculty of Ocean Science and Technology, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Kochi, India

Mohammed Naeem │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2019-2021│ currently PhD student at the ICAR – National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR), Agatti Centre, Lakshadweep

Smrithy Ramadasan │ Intern: 2019-2020

Ashley Shaji│ Intern: 2019-2020 │ currently Scientist at the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), Galashiels, Scotland

Dr. Ashna Shanmughan │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2018-2019 │currently with the Department of Fisheries, Government of Kerala

Sruthymol, UM │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2018-2019 │ currently with the Department of Fisheries, Government of Kerala

Rahul Rajan │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2018-2019) │ currently with the Department of Fisheries, Government of Kerala

Seethalakshmi Sanil │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2018-2019) │ currently Executive Assistant at the National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB), Hyderabad, India

Dr. Mubarak M │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2017-2018 │ currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU), Keelung, Taiwan

Shubra Singh │ Visiting MFSc Student 2018 – Master of Fisheries Science in Fish Genetics, Central Institute of Fisheries Education/CIFE, Mumbai, October 2018

Sanniya Sekhar │ Intern – August/September 2018

Anju CV │ Master of Science in Marine Biology, 2016-2018

Eldho PS │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2016-2017│ currently Instructor at the Central Institute of Fisheries Nautical and Engineering Training (CIFNET), Chennai, India

Dr. Sangeetha Nair │ Visiting PhD Student, Central Institute of Fisheries Education/CIFE, Mumbai, February/March 2017│ currently Scientist at the Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI), Barrackpore, India 

Parul Gurjar │ Visiting PhD Student, Barkatullah University, Bhopal, December 2016  

Rufus T │ Master of Fisheries Science/MFSc 2015-2016│ currently at the Department of Fisheries, Government of Andhra Pradesh

Richu A │ Master of Science in Biological Oceanography and Biodiversity 2015-2016