What I find Interesting
My research projects range from prey-predator behaviour, learning and memory to colour change, stress physiology and neuroethology in animals and humans.
I try to ask interesting questions and am not specific about the model system.
I have three major research ideas which I would like to pursue in future:
1) Effects of various environmental stressors on biodiversity.
2) Neuronal underpinnings of various behavioural decisions (complex decision making, learning and memory in simpler models).
3) Role of lifestyle in stress and cognition in humans.
If any of these interest you and you want to work or think more on related ideas please write to me!
What I love to teach
My teaching philosophy is an extension of my love of science. I pursued a career in science because I am immensely curious and enjoy the process of logical thinking and hands-on learning. I am also an ardent nature lover and have always been motivated to combine this passion with my profession.
I have taught undergraduate to graduate students during my academic journey. I combine classroom teaching with practical experiments in the lab and the field. I have a formal training in ‘University Teaching and Learning’ from Taylor Institute of Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary. This has given me ample ideas to conduct a fruitful teaching course. My teaching philosophy is based on an environment rich in mutual respect, collaboration, and support.
Courses I am currently teaching at FLAME University:
Research Methods
Fundamentals of Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Animal Behaviour in an Urban World
Introduction to Environmental Studies
Statistics for Ecologists
Coures and mini lectures previously taught at various institutes:
Colours in Nature
Animal Behaviour
Experiments in Ecology
Science and Society
Stress, learning and memory
I have taught undergraduate to graduate students during my academic journey. I combine classroom teaching with practical experiments in the lab and the field. I have a formal training in ‘University Teaching and Learning’ from Taylor Institute of Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary. This has given me ample ideas to conduct a fruitful teaching course. My teaching philosophy is based on an environment rich in mutual respect, collaboration, and support.
Courses I am currently teaching at FLAME University:
Research Methods
Fundamentals of Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Animal Behaviour in an Urban World
Introduction to Environmental Studies
Statistics for Ecologists
Coures and mini lectures previously taught at various institutes:
Colours in Nature
Animal Behaviour
Experiments in Ecology
Science and Society
Stress, learning and memory
About Me
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LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/anuradha-batabyal
Research gate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Anuradha_Batabyal
I am Anuradha and I have grown up in the beautiful city of Kolkata, India. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences at FLAME University, India. I was a Postdoctoral Associate at University of Calgary where I worked with Prof. Ken Lukowiak at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute studying long-term memory formation, enhancement and learning under various stressful conditions such as extreme temperatures and predatory threat in pond snails (Lymnaea stagnalis). Even though snails are such tiny creatures you will be surprised at how smart they are. It is extremely exciting to work on them as they have a simpler nervous system which serves best to answer some of the questions that is difficult to test in humans or other vertebrates.
Before I moved to Canada and started working on animal cognition, I studied behaviour and ecology of various species starting from the huge monitor lizard, to rock agamas to different anurans and also some crop field birds. My research interests became focused when I started my Masters in University of Pune, India where I studied anti-predatory behaviour of anuran tadpoles. But my love shifted from amphibians to lizards as I began my PhD under the guidance of Dr. Maria Thaker at Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc, India. For PhD, I studied the shifts in phenotypic traits of the Indian rock agama (Psammophilus dorsalis) as it adjusted to urban landscape.After PhD, I did my bridging postdoc for a year at CES, IISc as a Research Associate and wrote a book chapter during that time.I worked as a National Postdoctoral Fellow and a Guest lecturer for 1 year at Azim Premji University, India exploring physiological and psychological stress in undergraduate students and also studied multi-modal signalling in the foot-flagging frog Micrixalus uttaraghati found in Amboli, Maharashtra, India. I love teaching so during that time I took some workshops on animal perception and also taught a course on animal colouration for postgraduate students at Azim Premji University.
Apart from the curiosity to understand various patterns and processes in nature I love gardening, traveling, cooking, painting, reading and dancing. All of these creative passions of mine help me to de-stress.
I am an ardent lover of art and have my own nature inspired artworks that help in science outreach and communication as well as bring immense joy. Some of them are on display in Pallette Aranya section of this page.
In Canada, I have also worked as a marketing lead and content creator for a mental health based startup: 8bitcortex www.8bitcortex.com/
Before I moved to Canada and started working on animal cognition, I studied behaviour and ecology of various species starting from the huge monitor lizard, to rock agamas to different anurans and also some crop field birds. My research interests became focused when I started my Masters in University of Pune, India where I studied anti-predatory behaviour of anuran tadpoles. But my love shifted from amphibians to lizards as I began my PhD under the guidance of Dr. Maria Thaker at Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc, India. For PhD, I studied the shifts in phenotypic traits of the Indian rock agama (Psammophilus dorsalis) as it adjusted to urban landscape.After PhD, I did my bridging postdoc for a year at CES, IISc as a Research Associate and wrote a book chapter during that time.I worked as a National Postdoctoral Fellow and a Guest lecturer for 1 year at Azim Premji University, India exploring physiological and psychological stress in undergraduate students and also studied multi-modal signalling in the foot-flagging frog Micrixalus uttaraghati found in Amboli, Maharashtra, India. I love teaching so during that time I took some workshops on animal perception and also taught a course on animal colouration for postgraduate students at Azim Premji University.
Apart from the curiosity to understand various patterns and processes in nature I love gardening, traveling, cooking, painting, reading and dancing. All of these creative passions of mine help me to de-stress.
I am an ardent lover of art and have my own nature inspired artworks that help in science outreach and communication as well as bring immense joy. Some of them are on display in Pallette Aranya section of this page.
In Canada, I have also worked as a marketing lead and content creator for a mental health based startup: 8bitcortex www.8bitcortex.com/
Something Exciting!
A new gecko species from the Cnemaspis genera has been named Cnemaspis anuradhae (as an appreciation of my work on Indian lizards). It is discovered from the Mangalamkombu in Palani hills, Tamil Nadu, India. This new species was collected by Akshay Khandekar, Ishan Agarwal, Tejas Thackeray and team. They published this article along with the discovery of 4 other Cnemaspis species in Zootaxa.
Citation link: https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5469.1.1
The news has also been released in Miami Herald:
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article289369292.html
Citation link: https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5469.1.1
The news has also been released in Miami Herald:
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article289369292.html
