Amitabh Joshi

Born|  (1965-03-04) 4 March 1965 (age 61)

Agra, India

Alma mater|

* Delhi University
* Washington State University
* University of California, Irvine

Known for| Studies on Population genetics
Quantitative genetics
Evolutionary genetics
Population ecology
Awards|

* 2009 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
* 2010 LSA-IIM Lucknow National Leadership Award

Scientific career
Fields|

* Evolutionary biology
* Genetics

Institutions|

* Washington State University
* Indian Institute of Science
* Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
* Berlin Institute for Advanced Study

Doctoral advisor|

* John N. Thompson
* Michael E. Moody
* Laurence D. Mueller

Amitabh Joshi, in early 2022

Amitabh Joshi (born 1965) is an Indian evolutionary biologist, population ecologist, geneticist and a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR).[1][2] He heads the Evolutionary Biology Laboratory at JNCASR and is known for his studies on Evolutionary genetics and Population ecology.[3] An elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences,[4] National Academy of Sciences, India,[5] and Indian National Science Academy, he was also a J. C. Bose National Fellow (2011-2021) of the Department of Science and Technology.[6] He served as the Chief Editor of the Journal of Genetics (2008-2014) and Editor of Publications of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2017-2021). The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2009, for his contributions to biological sciences.[7]

## Contents

* 1 Biography
* 2 Legacy
* 3 Awards and honors
* 4 Selected bibliography
* 4.1 Books
* 4.2 Articles
* 5 See also
* 6 Notes
* 7 References
* 8 External links
* 9 Further reading

## Biography

Drosophila melanogaster

Joshi was born on 4 March 1965 to Devi Datt Joshi and Nirmala Joshi (nee Pande) in the Indian city of Agra. He did his schooling in St. Francis Nursery School and St. Peter's College, Agra. He then did his graduation (BSc Hons in Botany, 1982–85, Hindu College, Delhi) and Master's studies (M.Sc. in Genetics,1985–87) from Delhi University South Campus, and moved to Washington State University from where he obtained a PhD in 1993, working with John N. Thompson and Michael E. Moody.[8] His Ph.D. thesis was titled Coevolution and variation in competition between Drosophila species; in addition, his collaboration with Moody resulted in two papers on the cost-of-sex issue, published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.[9] During this period, he also worked as a research assistant (1987–88) and a teaching assistant at the university (1987–93). He 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.[1] In April 1996, he joined Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research as a member of faculty at the Animal Behaviour Unit and shifted to Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit in 1998 where he rose in rank from a faculty fellow (1998–2001) to an associate professor,[10] reaching the position of a professor in 2007. He heads the Evolutionary Biology Laboratory of the institution where he hosts a number of research scholars. In between, he served as a visiting faculty at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study in 2001.[6] He is also an adjunct faculty of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali[11] and resides in Bengaluru, in Karnataka.[12]

## Legacy

Joshi continues his early researches on Drosophila but has now combined his evolution studies with theoretical work using computer simulations.[6] His researches focuses on the inter-relations between the genetics of organisms and their ecology and the influence of these factors in their evolutionary path. His laboratory studies various evolutionary aspects such as the rate of development, patterns of progeny and ageing and investigates the development of competitive abilities and stress resistance in organisms.[13] His researches have been documented by way of a number of articles[note 1] and several of them have been listed by many major online article repositories such as Google Scholar,[14] ResearchGate,[15] Academic Tree[16] and PubFacts.[17] He has also published a book, Stability in Model Populations, co-authored by his post-doctoral guide, Laurence D. Mueller.[18] He is on the list of mentors of doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Science[19] and has guided several scholars in their researches.[20]

At Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, 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.[8] He is a former member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit of JNCASR during 1999–2001 and was the coordinator of the Discussion Meeting on Origin and Evolution of Life, an ISRO-IAS event held in Coorg in 2000. He was also associated in organizing seminars and conferences such as the Association for Tropical Biology-Annual Meeting (Bengaluru 2001), One-Day Symposium on Evolutionary Biology in honour of Stephen Jay Gould (JNCASR 2002), Workshop on Adaptation and Time (JNCASR 2002) and Four Day Lecture Programme on Evolutionary and Organismal Biology (Delhi University 2002). He is a former member of the Vice Chancellor's Empowered Committee for Restructuring the Undergraduate Science Programme of Delhi University (2002–04), Planning Committee of Indian School in Chronobiology (2002), Expert Consultative Committee of the Department of Science and Technology (2004) and Sectional Committee of Indian Academy of Sciences for Animal and Plant Sciences (2004–06) and sits in the Board of Studies in Genetics of Mysore University and Project Advisory Committee for Animal Sciences of Department of Science and Technology. He has been associated with Resonance: Journal of Science Education (editorial board member, associate editor), Journal of Biosciences on the Origin of Life (guest editor 1997–98), Journal of Genetics on Evolutionary genetics: the Drosophila model (guest editor–2003) and the Journal of Genetics (editor).[8] He was also among the 370 scientists who expresses their disapproval of the handling of 2016 JNU protests.[21]

## Awards and honors

Joshi was selected as a Young Associate by the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1997 for a period of three years[8] and was elected as its fellow in 2001.[4] The same year, he was elected by Berlin Institute for Advanced Study as a fellow for his project, Life History Evolution in Drosophila.[22] He was elected as a National Academy of Sciences, India fellow in 2002[5] 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.[23] A J. C. Bose National fellow, Joshi was selected for the National Leadership Award of the Lakshmipat Singhania Academy-IIM Lucknow in 2010. In 2011, the Indian National Science Academy elected him as a fellow.[6]

## Selected bibliography

### Books

* Laurence D. Mueller; Amitabh Joshi (2000). Stability in Model Populations. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691007335. https://archive.org/details/stabilityinmodel0000muel.

### Articles

* PUNYATIRTHA DEY; KANIKA MENDIRATTA; JOY BOSE; Amitabh Joshi (July 2016). "Enhancement of larval immune system traits as a correlated response to selection for rapid development in Drosophila melanogaster". Journal of Genetics 95 (3): 719–723. doi:10.1007/s12041-016-0659-5. PMID 27659343.
* MANASWINI SARANGI; Archana Nagarajan; Snigdhadip Dey; JOY BOSE; Amitabh Joshi (July 2016). "Evolution of increased larval competitive ability in Drosophila melanogaster without increased larval feeding rate". Journal of Genetics 95 (3): 491–503. doi:10.1007/s12041-016-0656-8. PMID 27659320.
* Archana Nagarajan; SHARMILA BHARATHI NATARAJAN; Mohan Jayaram; ANANDA THAMMANNA; Sudarshan Chari; JOY BOSE; Shreyas Venkataraman Jois; Amitabh Joshi (June 2016). "Adaptation to larval crowding in Drosophila ananassae and Drosophila nasuta nasuta: increased larval competitive ability without increased larval feeding rate". Journal of Genetics 95 (2): 411–425. doi:10.1007/s12041-016-0655-9. PMID 27350686.
* "Rethinking inheritance, yet again: inheritomes, contextomes and dynamic phenotypes". Journal of Genetics 94 (3): 367–76. 2015. doi:10.1007/s12041-015-0554-5. PMID 26440075.
* "Remarks on the article on life-history traits in Drosophila populations selected for rapid development by Yadav and Sharma". Journal of Experimental Biology 218 (2): 326–7. 2015. doi:10.1242/jeb.117366. PMID 25609787. Bibcode: 2015JExpB.218..326P.
* "A possible mechanism for the attainment of out-of-phase periodic dynamics in two chaotic subpopulations coupled at low dispersal rate". Journal of Theoretical Biology 367: 100–10. 2015. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.11.028. PMID 25497477.
* "Rethinking inheritance, yet again: inheritomes, contextomes and dynamic phenotypes". Journal of Genetics 94 (3): 367–76. 2015. doi:10.1007/s12041-015-0554-5. PMID 26440075.

## See also

* Drosophila melanogaster
* Population ecology
* Modern evolutionary synthesis
* On the Origin of Species

## Notes

1. ↑ Please see Selected bibliography section

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "IN CONVERSATION: Amitabh Joshi". Special feature. Current Science. 25 May 2015. http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/108/10/1838.pdf.
2. ↑ "Pick a career for interest, not scope". ReDiff. 18 November 2009. http://getahead.rediff.com/report/2009/nov/18/achiever-meet-professor-amitabh-joshi.htm.
3. ↑ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=363.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Fellow Profile - Amitabh Joshi". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Joshi,_Prof._Amitabh.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2016. http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=J.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Indian fellow - Amitabh Joshi". Indian National Science Academy. 2016. http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=P11-1546.
7. ↑ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "Amitabh Joshi - Brief CV". Faculty profile. Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. 2016. http://www.jncasr.ac.in/ajoshi/index.php?menu_id=17&user_id=299&page_id=681.
9. ↑ Amitabh Joshi (19 November 2015). "On evolutionary biology, and a passion for science" (Interview). Interviewed by Anjali Vaidya. India Bioscience. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
10. ↑ Ameeta Gupta; Ashish Kumar (1 January 2006). Handbook of Universities. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. pp. 418–. ISBN 978-81-269-0607-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZKgM7P5iGwgC&pg=PA418.
11. ↑ "Adjunct faculty". Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali. 2016. http://www.iisermohali.ac.in/html/faculty/faculty.html.
12. ↑ "Professor of Evolutionary and Organismal Biology". JNCASR. 2016. http://www.jncasr.ac.in/eobu/ajoshi-present-position.htm.
13. ↑ "Our Research in Evolutionary Genetics". JNCASR. 2016. http://www.jncasr.ac.in/eobu/evolbiollab.htm.
14. ↑ "Amitabh Joshi on Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 2016. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sLhNqsgAAAAJ.
15. ↑ "Amitabh Joshi on ResearchGate". 2016. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amitabh_Joshi.
16. ↑ "Amitabh Joshi on Academic Tree". Academic Tree. 2016. http://academictree.org/evolution/publications.php?pid=153659.
17. ↑ "Amitabh Joshi on PubFacts". PubFacts. 2016. http://www.pubfacts.com/author/Amitabh+Joshi?tr=1.
18. ↑ Laurence D. Mueller; Amitabh Joshi (2000). Stability in Model Populations. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691007335. https://books.google.com/books?id=EwbtjnnA7PoC.
19. ↑ "List of Mentors for the Year 2016". Indian Institute of Science. 2016. https://www.iiserpune.ac.in/~mbio/sites/default/files/nnmcb/files/mentors_nnmcb_internship_2016_oct_162015_169.pdf.
20. ↑ "Curriculum Vitae - Sudipta Tung". Students.IISER Kolkata. 2016. https://students.iiserkol.ac.in/~sudiptatung/cv.pdf.
21. ↑ "Over 370 Scientists Express Disappointment With JNU VC". The Wire. 17 February 2016. https://thewire.in/21911/over-370-scientists-express-disappointment-with-jnu-vc/.
22. ↑ "BIAS fellow". Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. 2016. https://www.wiko-berlin.de/en/fellows/fellowfinder/detail/2000-joshi-amitabh/?no_cache=1&cHash=5a8231ccf7dc930e517ef63ada61ab4f.
23. ↑ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1999. pp. 34. http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf.

## External links

* Amitabh Joshi (17 March 2015). "Eureka with Amitabh Joshi" (Interview). Interviewed by Gauhar Raza. CSIR-NISCAIR Tube. Archived from the original on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
* "Amitabh Joshi - Basic genetics". Discussion Meeting on Population Genetics and Evolution - YouTube video. International Centre for Theoretical Sciences. 2 April 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfQVOFWcaQo.
* "Amitabh Joshi's Homepage". Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. 2016. http://www.jncasr.ac.in/eobu/ajoshi-homepage.htm.

## Further reading

* Amitabh Joshi (19 November 2015). "On evolutionary biology, and a passion for science" (Interview). Interviewed by Anjali Vaidya. India Bioscience. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
* "PM to scientists: make a break with the past". News report. The Hindu. 21 October 2010. https://www.thehindu.com/news/pm-to-scientists-make-a-break-with-the-past/article839937.ece.

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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Biological Science

1960s|

* Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan (1960)
* M. S. Swaminathan (1961)
* Bimal Kumar Bachhawat (1962)
* Jagannath Ganguly (1963}
* Dilbagh Singh Athwal (1964)
* Chirayathumadom Venkatachalier Subramanian (1965)
* Hari Krishan Jain (1966)
* Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao (1966)
* Arun Kumar Sharma (1967)
* Tathamangalam Ananthanarayanan Venkitasubramanian (1968)

1970s|

* Madhu Sudan Kanungo (1971)
* Narayana Balakrishnan Nair (1971)
* Birendra Bijoy Biswas (1972)
* Satish Chandra Maheshwari (1972)
* Bhyravabhotla Radhakrishna Murty (1973)
* Sardul Singh Guraya (1973)
* John Barnabas (1974)
* Obaid Siddiqi (1975)
* Archana Sharma (1975)
* Guru Prakash Dutta (1976)
* Kishan Singh (1976)
* Trichnopoly Chelvaraj Anand Kumar (1977)
* V. Sasisekharan (1978)
* Amar Nath Bhaduri (1979)
* M. K. Chandrashekaran (1979)

1980s|

* Asis Datta (1980)
* Jamuna Sharan Singh (1980)
* Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane (1981)
* Sushil Kumar (1981)
* Sunil Kumar Podder (1982)
* Ramamirtha Jayaraman (1982)
* Govindarajan Padmanabhan (1983)
* Thavamani Jegajothivel Pandian (1984)
* K. R. K. Easwaran (1984)
* Chhitar Mal Gupta (1985)
* M. Vijayan (1985)
* Madhav Gadgil (1986)
* Avadhesha Surolia
* Sudhir Kumar Sopory
* Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya (1988)
* M. R. S. Rao (1988)
* Subhash Chandra Lakhotia (1989)
* Manju Ray (1989)

1990s|

* Samir K. Brahmachari (1990)
* Virendra Nath Pandey (1991)
* Srinivas Kishanrao (1991)
* Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam (1992)
* Dipankar Chatterji (1992)
* Raghavendra Gadagkar (1993)
* M. R. N. Murthy (1993)
* Ramakrishnan Nagaraj (1994)
* Alok Bhattacharya (1994)
* Seyed E. Hasnain (1995)
* Kalappa Muniyappa (1995)
* Ghanshyam Swarup (1996)
* Vishweshwaraiah Prakash (1996)
* Jayaraman Gowrishankar (1997)
* Kanury Venkata Subba Rao (1997)
* K. VijayRaghavan (1998)
* Debi Prasad Sarkar (1998)
* Siddhartha Roy (1999)
* Valakunja Nagaraja (1999)

2000s|

* Dinakar Mashnu Salunke (2000)
* Jayant B. Udgaonkar (2000)
* Umesh Varshney (2001)
* Raghavan Varadarajan (2002)
* Amitabha Mukhopadhyay (2002)
* Satyajit Mayor (2003)
* Gopal Chandra Kundu (2004)
* Ramesh Venkata Sonti (2004)
* Tapas Kumar Kundu (2005)
* Shekhar C. Mande (2005)
* Vinod Bhakuni (2006)
* Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale (2006)
* Upinder Singh Bhalla (2007)
* Narayanaswamy Srinivasan (2007)
* Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava (2008)
* L. S. Shashidhara (2008)
* Amitabh Joshi (2009)
* Bhaskar Saha (2009)

2010s|

* Sanjeev Galande (2010)
* Shubha Tole (2010)
* Amit Prakash Sharma (2011)
* Rajan Sankaranarayanan (2011)
* Shantanu Chowdhury (2012)
* Suman Kumar Dhar (2012)
* Sathees Chukkurumbal Raghavan (2013)
* Roop Mallik (2014)
* Balasubramanian Gopal (2015)
* Rajeev Kumar Varshney (2015)
* Suvendra Nath Bhattacharyya (2016)
* Rishikesh Narayanan (2016)
* Deepak T. Nair (2017)
* Sanjeev Das (2017)
* Ganesh Nagaraju (2018)
* Thomas J. Pucadyil (2018)

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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Laureates of Karnataka

Biological Sciences|

* Sunil Kumar Podder
* Manchanahalli Rangaswamy Satyanarayana Rao
* Srinivas Kishanrao Saidapur
* M. R. N. Murthy
* Kalappa Muniyappa
* Vishweshwaraiah Prakash
* K. VijayRaghavan
* V. Nagaraja
* Dinakar Mashnu Salunke
* Raghavan Varadarajan
* Amitabh Joshi
* Balasubramanian Gopal
* Rishikesh Narayanan

Chemical Sciences|

* Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
* Kalya Jagannath Rao
* Biman Bagchi
* Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha
* Jayaraman Chandrasekhar
* Akhil Ranjan Chakravarty
* Krishna N. Ganesh
* Uday Maitra
* Tavarekere Kalliah Chandrashekar
* Tushar Kanti Chakraborty
* Santanu Bhattacharya
* Siva Umapathy
* Subramaniam Ramakrishnan
* Srinivasan Sampath
* Balasubramanian Sundaram
* Yamuna Krishnan
* Kavirayani Ramakrishna Prasad

Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences|

* Shankar Doraiswamy

Engineering Sciences|

* Roddam Narasimha
* Mangalore Anantha Pai
* Udipi Ramachandra Rao
* Vallampadugai Srinivasa Raghavan Arunachalam
* Dipankar Banerjee
* Atul Chokshi
* Giridhar Madras
* Jayant Haritsa
* N. Ravishankar
* Venkata Padmanabhan
* Neelesh B. Mehta

Mathematical Sciences|

* Siva Athreya
* Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
* Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan
* Shrikrishna Gopalrao Dani
* Tyakal Nanjundiah Venkataramana
* Vasudevan Srinivas
* Sujatha Ramdorai
* Kaushal Kumar Verma
* K. Sandeep

Medical Sciences|

* Nuggehalli Raghuveer Moudgal
* Perdur Radhakantha Adiga
* P. N. Rangarajan
* K. Narayanaswamy Balaji

Physical Sciences|

* Raja Ramanna
* Narasimhaiengar Mukunda
* N. V. Madhusudana
* A. M. Jayannavar
* Sriram Ramaswamy
* Avinash Deshpande
* Madan Rao
* Srikanth Sastry
* Abhishek Dhar
* Umesh Waghmare
* Arindam Ghosh

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