Amitabh Joshi

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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.{{cite web | url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/ajoshi/index.php?menu_id=17&user_id=299&page_id=681 | title=Amitabh Joshi - Brief CV | publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research | work=Faculty profile | date=2016 | access-date=27 October 2016}} 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.{{cite interview | url=https://indiabioscience.org/columns/conversations/on-evolutionary-biology-and-a-passion-for-science-interview-with-amitabh-joshi | title=On evolutionary biology, and a passion for science | date=19 November 2015 | access-date=27 October 2016 | last=Amitabh Joshi | interviewer=Anjali Vaidya | publisher=India Bioscience}} 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 [http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~mueller/ 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. 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,{{cite book|author1=Ameeta Gupta|author2=Ashish Kumar|title=Handbook of Universities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZKgM7P5iGwgC&pg=PA418|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-269-0607-9|pages=418–}} 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. He is also an adjunct faculty of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali{{cite web | url=http://www.iisermohali.ac.in/html/faculty/faculty.html | title=Adjunct faculty | publisher=Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali | date=2016 | access-date=28 October 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205184329/http://www.iisermohali.ac.in/html/faculty/faculty.html | archive-date=5 February 2017 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }} and resides in Bengaluru, in Karnataka.{{cite web | url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/eobu/ajoshi-present-position.htm | title=Professor of Evolutionary and Organismal Biology | publisher=JNCASR | date=2016 | access-date=27 October 2016}}

Joshi continues his early researches on Drosophila but has now combined his evolution studies with theoretical work using computer simulations. 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/eobu/evolbiollab.htm | title=Our Research in Evolutionary Genetics | publisher=JNCASR | date=2016 | access-date=27 October 2016}} His researches have been documented by way of a number of articles{{Refn|group=note|Please see Selected bibliography section}} and several of them have been listed by many major online article repositories such as Google Scholar,{{cite web | url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sLhNqsgAAAAJ | title=Amitabh Joshi on Google Scholar | publisher=Google Scholar | date=2016 | access-date=27 October 2016}} ResearchGate,{{cite web | url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amitabh_Joshi | title=Amitabh Joshi on ResearchGate | date=2016 | access-date=27 October 2016}} Academic Tree{{cite web | url=http://academictree.org/evolution/publications.php?pid=153659 | title=Amitabh Joshi on Academic Tree | publisher=Academic Tree | date=2016 | access-date=27 October 2016}} and PubFacts.{{cite web | url=http://www.pubfacts.com/author/Amitabh+Joshi?tr=1 | title=Amitabh Joshi on PubFacts | publisher=PubFacts | date=2016 | access-date=27 October 2016}} He has also published a book, Stability in Model Populations, co-authored by his post-doctoral guide, Laurence D. Mueller.{{cite book|author1=Laurence D. Mueller|author2=Amitabh Joshi|title=Stability in Model Populations |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwbtjnnA7PoC|year=2000|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9780691007335}} He is on the list of mentors of doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Science{{cite web | url=http://www.iiserpune.ac.in/~mbio/sites/default/files/nnmcb/files/mentors_nnmcb_internship_2016_oct_162015_169.pdf | title=List of Mentors for the Year 2016 | publisher=Indian Institute of Science | date=2016 | access-date=28 October 2016}} and has guided several scholars in their researches.{{cite web | url=http://students.iiserkol.ac.in/~sudiptatung/cv.pdf | title=Curriculum Vitae - Sudipta Tung | publisher=Students.IISER Kolkata | date=2016 | access-date=28 October 2016}}

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. 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). He was also among the 370 scientists who expresses their disapproval of the handling of 2016 JNU protests.{{cite web | url=http://thewire.in/21911/over-370-scientists-express-disappointment-with-jnu-vc/ | title=Over 370 Scientists Express Disappointment With JNU VC | publisher=The Wire | date=17 February 2016 | access-date=28 October 2016}}

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. The same year, he was elected by Berlin Institute for Advanced Study as a fellow for his project, Life History Evolution in Drosophila.{{cite web | url=https://www.wiko-berlin.de/en/fellows/fellowfinder/detail/2000-joshi-amitabh/?no_cache=1&cHash=5a8231ccf7dc930e517ef63ada61ab4f | title=BIAS fellow | publisher=Berlin Institute for Advanced Study | date=2016 | access-date=28 October 2016}} He 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=5 October 2016 | pages=34 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }} 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.

• {{cite book|author1=Laurence D. Mueller|author2=Amitabh Joshi|title=Stability in Model Populations|year=2000|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9780691007335|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/stabilityinmodel0000muel}}

• {{cite journal | title=Enhancement of larval immune system traits as a correlated response to selection for rapid development in Drosophila melanogaster |author1=PUNYATIRTHA DEY |author2=KANIKA MENDIRATTA |author3=JOY BOSE |author4=Amitabh Joshi | journal=Journal of Genetics | date=July 2016 | doi=10.1007/s12041-016-0659-5 |pmid=27659343 | volume=95 |issue=3 | pages=719–723|s2cid=39742982 }}
• {{cite journal | title=Evolution of increased larval competitive ability in Drosophila melanogaster without increased larval feeding rate |author1=MANASWINI SARANGI |author2=Archana Nagarajan |author3=Snigdhadip Dey |author4=JOY BOSE |author5=Amitabh Joshi | journal=Journal of Genetics | date=July 2016 | doi=10.1007/s12041-016-0656-8 |pmid=27659320 | volume=95 |issue=3 | pages=491–503|s2cid=15418527 }}
• {{cite journal | title=Adaptation to larval crowding in Drosophila ananassae and Drosophila nasuta nasuta: increased larval competitive ability without increased larval feeding rate |author1=Archana Nagarajan |author2=SHARMILA BHARATHI NATARAJAN |author3=Mohan Jayaram |author4=ANANDA THAMMANNA |author5=Sudarshan Chari |author6=JOY BOSE |author7=Shreyas Venkataraman Jois |author8=Amitabh Joshi | journal=Journal of Genetics | date=June 2016 | volume=95 | issue=2 | doi=10.1007/s12041-016-0655-9 |pmid=27350686 | pages=411–425|s2cid=368124 }}
• {{cite journal | title=Rethinking inheritance, yet again: inheritomes, contextomes and dynamic phenotypes |vauthors=Prasad NG, Dey S, Joshi A, Vidya TN | journal=Journal of Genetics | year=2015 | volume=94 |issue=3 | pages=367–76 | pmid=26440075 | doi=10.1007/s12041-015-0554-5|s2cid=8445547 }}
• {{cite journal | title=Remarks on the article on life-history traits in Drosophila populations selected for rapid development by Yadav and Sharma |vauthors=Prasad NG, Joshi A | journal=Journal of Experimental Biology | year=2015 | volume=218 |issue=2 | pages=326–7 | doi=10.1242/jeb.117366|pmid=25609787 | doi-access=free |bibcode=2015JExpB.218..326P }}
• {{cite journal | title=A possible mechanism for the attainment of out-of-phase periodic dynamics in two chaotic subpopulations coupled at low dispersal rate |vauthors=Dey S, Goswami B, Joshi A | journal=Journal of Theoretical Biology | year=2015 | volume=367 | pages=100–10 | doi=10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.11.028 | pmid=25497477}}
• {{cite journal | title=Rethinking inheritance, yet again: inheritomes, contextomes and dynamic phenotypes |vauthors=Prasad NG, Dey S, Joshi A, Vidya TN | journal=Journal of Genetics | year=2015 | volume=94 |issue=3 | pages=367–76 | doi=10.1007/s12041-015-0554-5 | pmid=26440075|s2cid=8445547 }}

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• Drosophila melanogaster
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• Modern evolutionary synthesis
• On the Origin of Species

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• {{cite interview | title=Eureka with Amitabh Joshi | date=17 March 2015 | access-date=27 October 2016 | last=Amitabh Joshi | interviewer=Gauhar Raza | publisher=CSIR-NISCAIR Tube | url=http://scm.niscair.res.in/videos/317/dr.-amitabh-joshi,-professor,-jawaharlal-nehru-centre-for-advance-sc | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104000657/http://scm.niscair.res.in/videos/317/dr.-amitabh-joshi,-professor,-jawaharlal-nehru-centre-for-advance-sc | archive-date=4 November 2016 | url-status=dead }}
• {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfQVOFWcaQo | title=Amitabh Joshi - Basic genetics | publisher=International Centre for Theoretical Sciences | work=Discussion Meeting on Population Genetics and Evolution - YouTube video | date=2 April 2014 | access-date=27 October 2016}}
• {{cite web | url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/eobu/ajoshi-homepage.htm | title=Amitabh Joshi's Homepage | publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research | date=2016 | access-date=28 October 2016}}

• {{cite interview | url=https://indiabioscience.org/columns/conversations/on-evolutionary-biology-and-a-passion-for-science-interview-with-amitabh-joshi | title=On evolutionary biology, and a passion for science | date=19 November 2015 | access-date=27 October 2016 | last=Amitabh Joshi | interviewer=Anjali Vaidya | publisher=India Bioscience}}
• {{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/pm-to-scientists-make-a-break-with-the-past/article839937.ece | title=PM to scientists: make a break with the past | publisher=The Hindu | work=News report | date=21 October 2010 | access-date=28 October 2016}}

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