1. Amitabh Joshi was born on 1965 and is an Indian evolutionary biologist, population ecologist, geneticist and a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research.
16 Facts About Amitabh Joshi
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Amitabh Joshi served as the Chief Editor of the Journal of Genetics and Editor of Publications of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
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Amitabh Joshi did his schooling in St Francis Nursery School and St Peter's College, Agra.
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Amitabh Joshi stayed in the US until 1996 to complete his post-doctoral studies in the laboratory of Laurence D Mueller of the University of California, Irvine and returned to India to work as a visitor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences of Indian Institute of Science for a month.
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Amitabh Joshi is an adjunct faculty of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali and resides in Bengaluru, in Karnataka.
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Amitabh Joshi continues his early researches on Drosophila but has now combined his evolution studies with theoretical work using computer simulations.
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Amitabh Joshi's researches focuses on the inter-relations between the genetics of organisms and their ecology and the influence of these factors in their evolutionary path.
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Amitabh Joshi's researches have been documented by way of a number of articles and several of them have been listed by many major online article repositories such as Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Academic Tree and PubFacts.
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Amitabh Joshi has published a book, Stability in Model Populations, co-authored by his post-doctoral guide, Laurence D Mueller.
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Amitabh Joshi is on the list of mentors of doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Science and has guided several scholars in their researches.
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At Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Amitabh Joshi has served as a member of the Screening Committee for Life Sciences and sat as the convenor of the committee in 1999 and 2000.
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Amitabh Joshi was associated in organizing seminars and conferences such as the Association for Tropical Biology-Annual Meeting, One-Day Symposium on Evolutionary Biology in honour of Stephen Jay Gould, Workshop on Adaptation and Time and Four Day Lecture Programme on Evolutionary and Organismal Biology.
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Amitabh Joshi has been associated with Resonance: Journal of Science Education, Journal of Biosciences on the Origin of Life, Journal of Genetics on Evolutionary genetics: the Drosophila model and the Journal of Genetics.
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Amitabh Joshi was among the 370 scientists who expresses their disapproval of the handling of 2016 JNU protests.
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Amitabh Joshi was selected as a Young Associate by the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1997 for a period of three years and was elected as its fellow in 2001.
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Amitabh Joshi was elected as a National Academy of Sciences, India fellow in 2002 and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2009 for his contributions to Biological Sciences.