https://tecoevo.github.io/Dynamics of Living Systems2024-03-28T12:50:28+00:00Dynamics of Living SystemsGokhalegokhale@evolbio.mpg.dehttp://gokhalechaitanya.github.ioJekyllhttps://tecoevo.github.io/people/dharanish/Dharanish2022-09-19T00:00:00+00:00Gokhalegokhale@evolbio.mpg.dehttp://gokhalechaitanya.github.io<!--more-->
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<p>I was born and grew up in Bangalore, a city in the southern part of India, known for its gardens and pleasant weather. I studied both my Bachelors and Masters degree in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. While my major in both these degrees was physics, I did projects in a wide range of subjects such as theoretical ecology & evolution, computational biophysics, experimental condensed matter physics and molecular biology. Throughout my bachelors and masters study, my interests refined and narrowed until I landed upon the field of theoretical ecology and evolution, which was the subject of my Masters thesis.
I love being outside and playing sports like ultimate frisbee, basketball and badminton and also cycling and hiking. While inside, I enjoy playing video games, listening to and learning music, and reading comics and manga.</p>
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<p>I am broadly interested in understanding what happens when processes of ecology and that of evolution interact in complex ways. I am also interested in understanding how phenomena such as inter and intra species interactions, stochasticity, and spatial structure can affect the dynamics of general eco-evolutionary systems.</p>
<p>The current topic of my doctorate is to understand the evolution of learning and innovation in organisms. Learning is the process of gaining new information or strategies over the course of an animal’s lifetime. Innovation is the generation of novel strategies or the modification of previously known strategies also within an animal’s lifetime. I am interested in understanding how these processes will evolve over multiple generations and how they will be affected by extended evolutionary synthesis effects such an cultural and epigenetic inheritance, niche construction, etc. I plan to use the framework of reinforcement learning as a tool to understand these phenomena and answer these questions.</p>
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<li>Inter- and intraspecies interactions</li>
<li>Multi agent game theory</li>
<li>Stochasticity and stochastic games</li>
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<p><strong>Dharanish Rajendra</strong>, Jaydeep Mandal, Yashodhan Hatwalne, & Prabal K. Maiti (2023). “Packing and emergence of the ordering of rods in a spherical monolayer.” Soft Matter, 19(1), 137-146. DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SM00799A">https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SM00799A</a></p>
<p><strong>Dharanish Rajendra</strong>, Nikhil Maroli, Narendra M. Dixit, and Prabal Kumar Maiti. “Molecular Dynamics Simulations Show How Antibodies May Rescue HIV-1 Mutants Incapable of Infecting Host Cells.” bioRxiv (2022): 2022-09. DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.02.506285">https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.02.506285</a></p>
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<p>Email address: <a href="mailto:dharanish@evolbio.mpg.de">dharanish@evolbio.mpg.de</a></p>
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2022-09-19T00:00:00+00:00https://tecoevo.github.io/people/gaurav/Gaurav2022-08-20T00:00:00+00:00Gokhalegokhale@evolbio.mpg.dehttp://gokhalechaitanya.github.io<!--more-->
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<p>I grew up in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, and I am currently a student at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pune, India.
I have a background in mostly mathematics and some biology.
During my bachelor’s degree, I have worked on projects in computational biology, stochastic processes, and microbial ecology.<br />
I like to play Dungeons and Dragons, cook (hopefully) tasty food, and go hiking. Since coming to Plön, I also have a newfound appreciation for board games and swimming in its wonderful lakes.</p>
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<p>I am broadly interested in how eco-evolutionary processes influence biodiversity and the evolution of biological complexity.
The evolution of life can be seen as a sequence of associations in which individuals of certain species come together over evolutionary time to form a single, integrated, higher-level entity.
This is the common structure underlying the so-called major evolutionary transitions in individuality.
I am interested in understanding how and why these transitions took place the way they did.</p>
<p>For my master’s thesis in Plön, I am working on the origins of endosymbiosis. Endosymbiosis has given rise to some of the most fascinating long-term associations known to us, such as the mitochondria in eukaryotic cells and the nutritional endosymbionts of aphids, which have been engaged in obligate symbioses for hundreds of millions of years. What brings and keeps them together, and how does the relationship between host and symbiont change over time? These are some of the questions that we want to answer using tools from evolutionary game theory and adaptive dynamics.</p>
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<li>Major evolutionary transitions</li>
<li>Complex systems</li>
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<p>Email address: athreya (at) evolbio (dot) mpg (dot) de <br />
<a href="https://gauravathreya.github.io">Personal website</a></p>
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<p>I was born and raised in Charbrowo, a small village in the northern part of Poland.
I graduated from the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) QEM - Models and Methods of Quantitative Economics.
Besides my background in Social Sciences, I’ve always been most interested in mathematical modelling and evolutionary dynamics, with the main focus on Evolutionary Game Theory.
Especially during my Master’s studies at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, I’ve been studying different optimization techniques and their application to Game Theory.
In my Master Thesis, I researched the evolution of cooperation in multiplayer, multiple games on multilayer networks, and I will continue to work on those topics during my PhD.</p>
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<p>The main subjects of my research are evolutionary dynamics in multiplayer and multiple games.
The traditional two-player setup used in Game Theory does not fit many systems observed in real life; thus, the introduction of multiplayer games can lead to more realistic results.
Similarly, most evolutionary games are not played in isolated systems, so multiple games can increase the complexity of a model and help better mimic real-life interactions.
In my work, I focus on introducing both of those factors in the models and assessing their impact on the eco-evolutionary dynamics.</p>
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<li>Evolutionary Game Theory</li>
<li>Eco-evolutionary dynamics</li>
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2021-09-03T00:00:00+00:00https://tecoevo.github.io/people/dana/Dana2021-04-12T00:00:00+00:00Gokhalegokhale@evolbio.mpg.dehttp://gokhalechaitanya.github.io<!--more-->
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<p>I was born and raised in the beautiful city of Lübeck in northern Germany.
I graduated from the University of Lübeck with a Master of Science in Mathematics in Medicine and Life Sciences. During my bachelor and master studies I attended several courses in the fields of biomathematics and bioinformatics. My enthusiasm for modelling biological systems was reinforced when I joined an interdisciplinary project connecting stochastics and biology. The aim of this project was to arouse school students’ interest in stochastics and to deepen their understanding by modelling the emergence of antibiotic resistances previously observed in the lab. Population dynamics, especially in the light of evolution, are of particular interest to me.</p>
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<p>I am working on eco-evolutionary dynamics in agricultural systems.
Modern medicine and agriculture are typical examples of how humans influence ecological and evoltionary dynamics.
As antibiotic resistance is a major threat to public health, the evolution of resistance to pesticides (fungicides, herbicides or insecticides) is a global challenge in agriculture.
My work aims to analyse ecological and evolutionary forces driving population dynamics in agricultural systems, with particular attention on resistance evolution, and to examine the impact of humans’ action by means of mathematical models and simulations.
Currently I focus on the evolution of herbicide resistance in perennial weed species with complex life cycles.</p>
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<li>Eco-evolutionary Dynamics</li>
<li>Population Dynamics</li>
<li>Agricutural Systems</li>
<li>Evolution of Resistance</li>
<li>Evolutionary Rescue</li>
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<p><strong>Lauenroth, D.</strong>, Bender, B., Boie, S., Kunze, B. & Keller, K., 2020. Der Zufall schlägt zu - Stochastischer Zugang zur Entstehung von Antibiotikaresistenzen. MNU Journal, 73, 129–135.</p>
<p><strong>Lauenroth, D.</strong>, and Gokhale, C.S. Theoretical assessment of persistence and adaptation in weeds with complex life cycles. Nat. Plants 9, 1267–1279 (2023). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01482-1">article</a> <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.12.503772">bioRxiv-12.503772</a></p>
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<p><a href="mailto:lauenroth@evolbio.mpg.de">Email</a></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/DanaLauenroth">Twitter</a></p>
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2021-04-12T00:00:00+00:00https://tecoevo.github.io/people/prateek/Prateek2019-05-17T00:00:00+00:00Gokhalegokhale@evolbio.mpg.dehttp://gokhalechaitanya.github.io<em>Brief</em><!--more-->
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<p>I grew up in a small town called Shivpuri in India and did an integrated BS-MS degree in Physics from IISER-Kolkata. IISER offered me opportunity to take various interdisciplinary subjects during the course work. I became especially interested in the subject of evolutionary dynamics taken by Dr. Supratim Sengupta. I was intrigued by the application of various mathematical techniques for understanding complex social and biological phenomenon happening all around us and how same mathematical principles may be employed for understanding evolution at different scales. In my PhD (at IISER-Kolkata), I analysed an evolutionary game theoretical model of harassment bribery as well as bacterial competition of antibiotic producer, sensitive and degrader cells in a spatial environment. Both of these research topics have been motivated by current societal issues. In my free time, I love to read, program, sketch and meditate.</p>
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<p>My research currently focuses on understanding synthetic gene drive systems. Synthetic gene drive is a genetic engineering technology which biases the chance of inheritance of the desired gene in a population. Hence drive genes can increase in frequency even when they have fitness disadvantage. This technology has numerous potential advantages (human health, agriculture and threatened species conservation) but also comes with great risks and challenges (confinement, societal impact, ecological and health impact). The focus of my work is to assess the risks of synthetic gene-drive systems in terms of spread and resistance evolution using mathematical modelling and simulations.</p>
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<p>We are glad to announce that the <a href="https://pverma.shinyapps.io/DrMxR/">DrMxR (Drive Mixer)</a>
is avialable online now. It is a handy tool to explore the population level consequences of different drive systems. You may acess DrMxR from <a href="https://pverma.shinyapps.io/DrMxR/">here</a></p>
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<li>Evolutionary Game Theory</li>
<li>Network Science</li>
<li>Complex Systems</li>
<li>Origin of Life</li>
<li>Computational Social Science</li>
</ul>
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<p>Pathak, S., Verma, P., Ram, S. K. & Sengupta, S. (2020) How strategy environment and wealth shape altruistic behaviour: cooperation rules affecting wealth distribution in dynamic networks. Proc Royal Soc B, 287, 20202250</p>
<p>Kosakowski J, Verma P, Sengupta S, Higgs PG (2018) The evolution of antibiotic production rate in a spatial model of bacterial competition. PLoS One 13(10):e0205202.</p>
<p>Verma P, Nandi AK, Sengupta S (2018) Bribery games on interdependent complex networks. J Theor Biol 450:43ñ52.</p>
<p>Verma P, Nandi AK, Sengupta S (2017) Bribery games on inter-dependent regular networks. Sci Rep 7:42735.</p>
<p>Verma P, Sengupta S (2015) Bribe and punishment: An evolutionary game-theoretic analysis of bribery. PLoS One 10(7):e0133441.</p>
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<li>DPS Department Day talk, titled <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Cooperation and Conflict in Microbial Community</code> at IISER Kolkata on 23 February 2019.</li>
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<p>Visited Prof. Paul G. Higgs at McMaster University, Canada in Nov-Dec 2016 to work on a joint project which resulted in a paper titled <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Evolution of antibiotic production rate in a spatial model of bacterial competition</code>.</p>
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<li>Attended Santa Fe Institute’s 2015 Complex Systems Winter School India conducted from December 7 through December 21, 2015 at the Indian Institute of Science Education Reseach (IISER) in Mohali, India</li>
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<li>Poster presentation on the Department day at IISER-Kolkata in November, 2014.</li>
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2019-05-17T00:00:00+00:00https://tecoevo.github.io/people/vandana/Vandana2018-03-12T00:00:00+00:00Gokhalegokhale@evolbio.mpg.dehttp://gokhalechaitanya.github.io<em>Brief</em><!--more-->
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<p>I was born in Chennai, India. I did my BSc in Physics from Delhi University.
I later joined an Erasmus Mundus programme through which I graduated from Ghent University, Belgium with an MSc in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics.
While doing my numerical projects related to computational physics, and out of curiosity, I read about nonlinear dynamics, evolutionary dynamics, game theory and so on that are used in theoretical biology.
This way, I was attracted to the field of evolutionary biology.
I am mainly interested in developing models for social evolution, life-history evolution etc.
I earned my PhD in Dr. Chaitanya S. Gokhale’s Research Group for Theoretical Models in Eco-Evolutionary dynamics.
Currently I am working on two projects, namely, investigating the relationship between parental investment and immune response, and investigating clutch-splitting strategy in fish.</p>
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<p>Interactions are at the center of evolutionary processes. One of the tools to study interactions between biological entities is that of evolutionary game theory. In reality, it is clear that individuals engage in a number of interactions (or games) and the fitness is a cumulative function of these multiple interactions. My work is based on such multiple interactions. The impact of the multiple games (or interactions) on the fitness and in turn on the evolutionary dynamics is thus unfocused as several players play several games during the same instant. Currently, I also working on life-history evolution. Data from several species species with varying levels of female or male pregnancy, show that increase in parental investment brings a rise in immunocompetence i.e. the sex that does more parental investment/pregnancy has better immunity as compared to the other. Developing theoretical models informed by experimental data, we seek to understand in what circumstances can an increase in parental investment also lead to a rise in immunocompetence.</p>
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<p>Vandana Revathi Venkateswaran and Chaitanya S. Gokhale (2019). <i>Evolutionary dynamics of multiple games</i>. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, 20190900.</p>
<p>S. Holmes, V. R. Venkateswaran et al (2019). <i>A quantitative approach to contact improvisation dance</i>. Manuscript submitted.</p>
<p>Vandana Revathi Venkateswaran, Olivia Roth and Chaitanya S. Gokhale. <i>Consequences of sex-specific differences in traits</i>. Accedpted in Evolution.</p>
<p>Vandana Revathi Venkateswaran, Marc Mangel, Chaitanya S. Gokhale and Sigrunn Eliassen. <i>Sexual dimorphism in immunity in relation to parental investment</i>. Manuscript under preparation.</p>
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<li>Selected to present a <strong>talk</strong> at the German Physics Society Conference’s Evolutionary Game Theory session (April, 2019).</li>
<li>Gave a <strong>talk</strong> on my work on sex differences in life-history interactions at ESEB (Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology) 2019, Turku, Finland (August, 2019).</li>
<li>Presented a <strong>talk</strong> on multiple games’ dynamics in the ‘Evolution of Interacting Populations’ workshop organised by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany (September, 2019).</li>
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<li>Attended and presented a poster at the Münster Evoution Meeting 2018 held at Münster.</li>
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<li>Presented a poster on my first PhD project titled ‘Evolutionary dynamics of unfocused games’ at the Kiel Life Science Conference in October 2016 and at the German Physics Conference (DPG Conference) in March 2017.</li>
<li><strong>Was awarded a travel grant by IAST, Toulouse</strong> to attend the Toulouse Economics and Biology Workshop in June 2017 at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAST), Toulouse, France.</li>
<li><strong>Obtained the International Max Planck Research School conference funding</strong> to participate in the Beg Rohu Summer School for Out of Equilibrium Dynamics, Evolution and Genetics organised by École normale supérieure, France.</li>
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<li>Organised the workshop “Talking Evolution” (at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany from 26th September to the 28th September, 2018) that focussed on discussing topics such as niche construction theory, extra-genetic inheritance, developmental bias, and phenotypic plasticity.</li>
<li>Organised (and presented a <strong>talk</strong>) at the Aquavit Symposium 2017 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön.</li>
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> Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
<cite>Mark Twain</cite>
### <ol> Ordered Lists
1. Ordered List
2. Second List Item
3. Third List Item
4. Second Level First Item
4. Second Level Second Item
4. Second Level Third Item
5. And a third level First Item
5. And a third level Second Item
5. And a third level Third Item
4. Fourth List Item
5. Fifth List Item
### <ul> Unordered Lists
- Unordered List
- Second List Item
- Third List Item
+ Second Level First Item
+ Second Level Second Item
+ Second Level Third Item
* And a third level First Item
* And a third level Second Item
* And a third level Third Item
- Fourth List Item
- Fifth List Item
### <dl> Definition Lists
Definition List
: Bacon ipsum dolor sit amet spare ribs brisket ribeye, andouille sirloin bresaola frankfurter corned beef capicola bacon. Salami beef ribs sirloin, short loin hamburger shoulder t-bone.
Beef ribs jowl swine porchetta
: Sirloin tenderloin swine frankfurter pork loin pork capicola ham hock strip steak ribeye beef ribs. Hamburger t-bone ribeye ham prosciutto bresaola.
Pancetta flank sirloin pork
: short ribs shankle prosciutto landjaeger. Beef ribs turkey shoulder drumstick. Leberkas pork belly ribeye, bresaola jerky strip steak tenderloin bacon landjaeger short ribs beef ribs. Flank pork chop fatback tail kielbasa filet mignon jowl landjaeger bresaola tongue corned beef biltong.
: Landjaeger spare ribs fatback corned beef tenderloin drumstick, swine chicken beef turkey biltong doner tri-tip filet mignon.
### <a>
[Links][2] make the web exceptional.
### <em>
Let's *emphasize* how important responsive webdesign is.
### <strong>
This looks like **bold** text.
### <small>
<small>This is small text.</small>
### <s>
It's nice getting things done. Just strike through <s>finished tasks</s>.
### <cite>
<cite>Albert Einstein</cite>
### <q>
If you use <q> your text gets <q>automagically quotes around the text passage</q>.
### <dfn>
The <dfn> tag is a phrase tag. It defines a <dfn>definition term</dfn>.
### <abbr>
The <abbr title="World Health Organization">WHO</abbr> was founded in 1948.
### <time>
The concert took place on <time datetime="2001-05-15 19:00">May 15</time>.
### <code>
Some `code: lucida console` displayed.
### <var>
The <var> tag is a phrase tag. It defines a <var>variable</var>.
### <samp>
Text surrounded by <samp> <samp>looks like this in monospace</samp>.
### <kbd>
Copycats enjoy pressing <kbd>CMD</kbd> + <kbd>c</kbd> and <kbd>CMD</kbd> + <kbd>v</kbd>.
### <sub>
This text <sub>lays low</sub> and chills a bit.
### <sup>
This text <sup>gets high</sup> above the clouds.
### <i>
This looks <i>italic</i>.
### <b>
This looks <b>bold</b>, too.
### <u>
<div><p><u>Underlining</u> content for emphasize is not the best choice. You can't read it so well.</p></div>
### <mark>
Let's <mark>mark this hint</mark> to give you a clue.
### <br>
Need a break? I give you three!<br><br><br>
## Footnotes
If you need footnotes for your posts, articles and entries, the Kramdown-Parser [^1] got you covered. How to use footnotes? Read this footnote. [^2]
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/HTML5/HTML5_element_list
[2]: http://phlow.de/
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Benguiat
[4]: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Lato
[5]: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Volkhov
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[7]: http://modularscale.com/
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Even tables are responsive thanks to foundation. A table can consist of these elements.
<table>
<caption><table> defines an HTML table</caption>
<colgroup>
<col span="1" style="width: 15%;">
<col span="1" style="width: 50%;">
<col span="1" style="width: 35%;">
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>HTML Tag</th>
<th>Defintion</th>
<th>Style</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><caption></td>
<td>defines a table caption</td>
<td><code>font-weight: bold;</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><colgroup></td>
<td>specifies a group of one or more columns in a table for
formatting. The <colgroup> tag is useful for applying styles to entire columns, instead of repeating the styles for each cell, for each row.</td>
<td>no styling needed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><col></td>
<td>specifies column properties for each column within a `<colgroup>`
element</td>
<td>no styling needed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><thead></td>
<td>is used to group header content in an HTML table</td>
<td><code>font-weight: bold;</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tbody></td>
<td>is used to group the body content in an HTML table</td>
<td>no styling needed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tr></td>
<td>defines a row in an HTML table</td>
<td>no styling needed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><th></td>
<td>defines a header cell in an HTML table</td>
<td><code>font-weight: bold;</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><td></td>
<td>defines a standard cell in an HTML table</td>
<td><code>font-weight: normal;</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tfoot></td>
<td>is used to group footer content in an HTML table</td>
<td>no styling needed</td>
</tr>
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2018-03-12T00:00:00+00:00https://tecoevo.github.io/people/chaitanya/Chaitanya2018-03-12T00:00:00+00:00Gokhalegokhale@evolbio.mpg.dehttp://gokhalechaitanya.github.io<!--more-->
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<p id="toc"><strong>Short Bio</strong>
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<img src="https://tecoevo.github.io/images/gokhale.jpg" />
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<li><a href="#personal-data" id="markdown-toc-personal-data">Personal Data</a></li>
<li><a href="#awards--fundings" id="markdown-toc-awards--fundings">Awards & Fundings</a> <ul>
<li><a href="#current" id="markdown-toc-current">Current</a></li>
<li><a href="#previous" id="markdown-toc-previous">Previous</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#academic-positions" id="markdown-toc-academic-positions">Academic Positions</a> <ul>
<li><a href="#current-positions" id="markdown-toc-current-positions">Current positions</a></li>
<li><a href="#post-doctoral-experience" id="markdown-toc-post-doctoral-experience">Post-doctoral experience</a></li>
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<li><a href="#visiting-researcher" id="markdown-toc-visiting-researcher">Visiting researcher</a></li>
<li><a href="#reviewing--board-memberships" id="markdown-toc-reviewing--board-memberships">Reviewing & Board memberships</a></li>
<li><a href="#teaching-workshops-and-science-communication" id="markdown-toc-teaching-workshops-and-science-communication">Teaching, Workshops and Science communication</a> <ul>
<li><a href="#massey-university---structured-undergraduate-program" id="markdown-toc-massey-university---structured-undergraduate-program">Massey University - Structured Undergraduate Program</a></li>
<li><a href="#guest-seminars" id="markdown-toc-guest-seminars">Guest seminars</a></li>
<li><a href="#public-talks-in-german" id="markdown-toc-public-talks-in-german">Public talks in German</a></li>
<li><a href="#podcast" id="markdown-toc-podcast">Podcast</a></li>
<li><a href="#seminar-series" id="markdown-toc-seminar-series">Seminar Series</a></li>
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<blockquote>
<p>I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
<cite>Bill Watterson, (Calvin and Hobbes)</cite></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Chaitanya S. Gokhale<br />
Professor- Theoretical Biology<br />
<a href="https://www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/cctb/cctb/">Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology</a>
Klara-Oppenheimer-Weg 32
Campus Hubland Nord
97074 Würzburg</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>Research Group Leader - Theoretical E-co-evolutionary dynamics<br />
<a href="http://www.evolbio.mpg.de/16397/group_evolutionarytheory">Department of Evolutionary Theory</a><br />
<a href="http://www.evolbio.mpg.de">Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology</a>,<br />
Plön, Germany</p>
<p>My name is Chaitanya (first name) Gokhale (last name). I was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pune">Pune</a>, which is a city in Central Western India (about 200 kms inland from Mumbai). Below is a web version of my curriculum vitae.</p>
<h2 id="personal-data">Personal Data</h2>
<p>Citizenship: Indian<br />
Place and Date of Birth: Pune, Maharashtra, India | 17 June 1984<br />
Languages: Marathi (mother-tongue), English, German, Hindi</p>
<h2 id="awards--fundings">Awards & Fundings</h2>
<h3 id="current">Current</h3>
<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2019-2020</code><br />
Bundesamt für Naturschutz (Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Germany) - Potential risks of synthetic gene-drive systems and a request for monitoring.</p>
<h3 id="previous">Previous</h3>
<ul>
<li>Royal Society of New Zealand: Marsden Fund, Associate Investigator with Paul Rainey: “Lineage selection and evolution of cancer”</li>
<li>DFG Priority Program: SPP 1590 Principal Investigator grant - “Probabilistic Structures in Evolution”</li>
<li><em>Otto Hahn Medal</em>: Max Planck Society</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="academic-positions">Academic Positions</h2>
<h3 id="current-positions">Current positions</h3>
<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2023 -</code> Professor, CCTB, Julius-Maximilians University Wuerzburg, Germany
<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2016 -</code> Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany<br />
<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2016 -</code> Full Member, <a href="http://www.kec.uni-kiel.de">Kiel Evolution Center</a>, Kiel, Germany</p>
<h3 id="post-doctoral-experience">Post-doctoral experience</h3>
<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2014 - 2016</code> Post doctoral researcher, New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand<br />
<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2011 - 2014</code> Post doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany</p>
<h2 id="visiting-researcher">Visiting researcher</h2>
<ul>
<li>Max Planck Institute for Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany </li>
<li>Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.</li>
<li>Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, U.S.A.</li>
<li>National Centre For Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India </li>
<li>Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="reviewing--board-memberships">Reviewing & Board memberships</h2>
<p>Editorial Board: Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Scientific Reports<br />
Committee: - International Max Planck Research School<br />
- PhD thesis evaluation committee member, Massey University<br />
- L’ORÉAL Austria - Fellowship for Young Female Scientists in Basic Research<br />
- Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School</p>
<h2 id="teaching-workshops-and-science-communication">Teaching, Workshops and Science communication</h2>
<h3 id="massey-university---structured-undergraduate-program">Massey University - Structured Undergraduate Program</h3>
<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2014</code> <br />
- Origin of Genetic variation I<br />
- Origin of Genetic variation II<br />
<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2015</code><br />
- Co-evolution<br />
- Cooperation and Conflict<br />
- Evolutionary Game Theory</p>
<h3 id="guest-seminars">Guest seminars</h3>
<p>In the lecture series of Prof. Hinrich Schulenburg (University of Kiel)<br />
<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2016</code><br />
- Co-evolution<br />
- Evolutionary Game Theory</p>
<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2020</code><br />
- Evolutionary games: from cells to societies
- Evolutionary games: cooperation</p>
<p>In established lecture series of Prof. Arne Traulsen (University of Lübeck)</p>
<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2019</code>
- Evolutionary multiplayer games</p>
<p>University of Bielefeld</p>
<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2020</code>
- Evolutionary games: from cells to societies</p>
<h3 id="public-talks-in-german">Public talks in German</h3>
<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2018</code><br />
- Max Planck Day: “Max Planck in Plön: Kleine Stadt Große Auswirkung”</p>
<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2017</code><br />
- Public Lecture: “Evolutionäre Spieltheorie”</p>
<h3 id="podcast">Podcast</h3>
<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2020</code><br />
- <a href="https://detektor.fm/wissen/forschungsquartett-crisprcas9-gene-drive">Detektor.fm</a> on “Forschungsquartett | Chancen und Risiken der Genschere”</p>
<h3 id="seminar-series">Seminar Series</h3>
<p><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2018</code><br />
- Year of Mathematical Biology Speakers: Hanna Kokko, Nick Barton, Michael Doebeli, Michael Lynch, Alison Etheridge and Pleuni Pennings <br />
<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">2017</code><br />
- Workshop organiser together with Jorge Peña: The biology and economics of mutualism</p>
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Pancetta flank sirloin pork
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## Footnotes
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[2]: http://phlow.de/
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Benguiat
[4]: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Lato
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<thead>
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<th>Style</th>
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<td>defines a table caption</td>
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<td>no styling needed</td>
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<td>is used to group header content in an HTML table</td>
<td><code>font-weight: bold;</code></td>
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<td>is used to group the body content in an HTML table</td>
<td>no styling needed</td>
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<td><code>font-weight: bold;</code></td>
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<td>defines a standard cell in an HTML table</td>
<td><code>font-weight: normal;</code></td>
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2018-03-12T00:00:00+00:00https://tecoevo.github.io/people/maria/Maria2018-03-10T00:00:00+00:00Gokhalegokhale@evolbio.mpg.dehttp://gokhalechaitanya.github.io<em>Brief</em><!--more-->
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<li><a href="#section-1" id="markdown-toc-section-1">2018</a></li>
<li><a href="#section-2" id="markdown-toc-section-2">2017</a></li>
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<h2 id="who-am-i">Who am I?</h2>
<p>Coming from Barcelona, I started on the lab bench during my BSc degree in Human Biology (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), but now computers have become my hands for doing science.
During my masters, I got experience in modelling biological processes in the fields of cognitive science (MSc in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
and synthetic biology (MSc in Systems and Synthetic Biology, Université d’Évry-Val-d’Essonne/Paris-Saclay, Évry), and I decided to become a theoretical biologist.
During my PhD, I am working on the integration of eco-evolutionary dynamics in agriculture, to design novel strategies for crop rotations.</p>
<h2 id="research-interests">Research interests</h2>
<p>My current interests follow two (related) topics: (I) how can we apply the knowledge of evolutionary theory and ecology to understand better disease-related problems, and (II) how does human action affect population dynamics, focusing in host-pathogen interactions. For this, I work on agroecosystems, in which host-pathogen coevolution locates in the interplay between artificial and natural selection forces. Particularly, I design crop rotations patterns that can potentially mitigate pathogen spread by using resistant crops. My work also aims to promote sustainable practices, and in the near future, I will integrate economic criteria in my model.</p>
<h3 id="keywords">Keywords</h3>
<ul>
<li>Theoretical biology</li>
<li>Translational eco-evolutionary biology</li>
<li>Population dynamics under artificial selection</li>
<li>Sustainable agriculture</li>
<li>Complex systems</li>
<li>Synthetic biology</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="conferences-workshops-and-research-visits">Conferences, workshops and research visits</h2>
<h3 id="section">2019</h3>
<ul>
<li>Short talk at European Ecological Federation congress (29th July to 2nd August, Lisbon, PT)</li>
<li>Research visit to Rothamsted Research (6th to 31st May, Harpenden, UK)</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="section-1">2018</h3>
<ul>
<li>Poster at Münster Evolution Meeting (4th to 6th October, Münster, DE)</li>
<li>Short talk at Evolution Montpellier (18th to 22nd August, Montpellier, FR)</li>
<li>Participant of Winter Workshop on Complex Systems (28th January to 3rd February, Utrecht, NL)</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="section-2">2017</h3>
<ul>
<li>Poster at Kiel Life Science Student Conference (23rd November, Kiel, DE)</li>
<li>Short talk at Symposium on Pathogen Evolution (20th and 21st July, Kiel, DE)</li>
<li>Short talk and organisation of Aquavit Internal MPI Symposium (6th and 7th July, Plön, DE)</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="links">Links</h2>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/mariabargues">Twitter page</a></p>
<p><a href="mailto:bargues@evolbio.mpg.de">Email</a></p>
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## Modular Scale
*Feeling Responsive* explores the *2:3 perfect fifth* modular scale created with [www.modular-scale.com][7]. This is the modular scale of *Feeling Responsive*.
44px @ 1:1.5 – Ideal text size
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## Typographical Elements
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Here you'll find the [complete list of HTML5-Tags][1] and this is how they look like.
### <hr> Horizontal Line
<hr>
### <pre> Displaying Code
~~~
<html>
<head>
<title>Code Blocks</title>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
~~~
### <blockquote> Quotation
<blockquote>Everything happens for a reason. (Britney Spears)</blockquote>
### <blockquote> and <cite> together
> Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
<cite>Mark Twain</cite>
### <ol> Ordered Lists
1. Ordered List
2. Second List Item
3. Third List Item
4. Second Level First Item
4. Second Level Second Item
4. Second Level Third Item
5. And a third level First Item
5. And a third level Second Item
5. And a third level Third Item
4. Fourth List Item
5. Fifth List Item
### <ul> Unordered Lists
- Unordered List
- Second List Item
- Third List Item
+ Second Level First Item
+ Second Level Second Item
+ Second Level Third Item
* And a third level First Item
* And a third level Second Item
* And a third level Third Item
- Fourth List Item
- Fifth List Item
### <dl> Definition Lists
Definition List
: Bacon ipsum dolor sit amet spare ribs brisket ribeye, andouille sirloin bresaola frankfurter corned beef capicola bacon. Salami beef ribs sirloin, short loin hamburger shoulder t-bone.
Beef ribs jowl swine porchetta
: Sirloin tenderloin swine frankfurter pork loin pork capicola ham hock strip steak ribeye beef ribs. Hamburger t-bone ribeye ham prosciutto bresaola.
Pancetta flank sirloin pork
: short ribs shankle prosciutto landjaeger. Beef ribs turkey shoulder drumstick. Leberkas pork belly ribeye, bresaola jerky strip steak tenderloin bacon landjaeger short ribs beef ribs. Flank pork chop fatback tail kielbasa filet mignon jowl landjaeger bresaola tongue corned beef biltong.
: Landjaeger spare ribs fatback corned beef tenderloin drumstick, swine chicken beef turkey biltong doner tri-tip filet mignon.
### <a>
[Links][2] make the web exceptional.
### <em>
Let's *emphasize* how important responsive webdesign is.
### <strong>
This looks like **bold** text.
### <small>
<small>This is small text.</small>
### <s>
It's nice getting things done. Just strike through <s>finished tasks</s>.
### <cite>
<cite>Albert Einstein</cite>
### <q>
If you use <q> your text gets <q>automagically quotes around the text passage</q>.
### <dfn>
The <dfn> tag is a phrase tag. It defines a <dfn>definition term</dfn>.
### <abbr>
The <abbr title="World Health Organization">WHO</abbr> was founded in 1948.
### <time>
The concert took place on <time datetime="2001-05-15 19:00">May 15</time>.
### <code>
Some `code: lucida console` displayed.
### <var>
The <var> tag is a phrase tag. It defines a <var>variable</var>.
### <samp>
Text surrounded by <samp> <samp>looks like this in monospace</samp>.
### <kbd>
Copycats enjoy pressing <kbd>CMD</kbd> + <kbd>c</kbd> and <kbd>CMD</kbd> + <kbd>v</kbd>.
### <sub>
This text <sub>lays low</sub> and chills a bit.
### <sup>
This text <sup>gets high</sup> above the clouds.
### <i>
This looks <i>italic</i>.
### <b>
This looks <b>bold</b>, too.
### <u>
<div><p><u>Underlining</u> content for emphasize is not the best choice. You can't read it so well.</p></div>
### <mark>
Let's <mark>mark this hint</mark> to give you a clue.
### <br>
Need a break? I give you three!<br><br><br>
## Footnotes
If you need footnotes for your posts, articles and entries, the Kramdown-Parser [^1] got you covered. How to use footnotes? Read this footnote. [^2]
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/HTML5/HTML5_element_list
[2]: http://phlow.de/
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Benguiat
[4]: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Lato
[5]: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Volkhov
[6]: http://www.latofonts.com/
[7]: http://modularscale.com/
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[^1]: Find out more about Kramdown on <http://kramdown.gettalong.org/>
[^2]: Kramdown has an excellent documentation of all its features. Check out, on how to [footnotes](http://kramdown.gettalong.org/syntax.html#footnotes).
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## Tables
Even tables are responsive thanks to foundation. A table can consist of these elements.
<table>
<caption><table> defines an HTML table</caption>
<colgroup>
<col span="1" style="width: 15%;">
<col span="1" style="width: 50%;">
<col span="1" style="width: 35%;">
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>HTML Tag</th>
<th>Defintion</th>
<th>Style</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><caption></td>
<td>defines a table caption</td>
<td><code>font-weight: bold;</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><colgroup></td>
<td>specifies a group of one or more columns in a table for
formatting. The <colgroup> tag is useful for applying styles to entire columns, instead of repeating the styles for each cell, for each row.</td>
<td>no styling needed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><col></td>
<td>specifies column properties for each column within a `<colgroup>`
element</td>
<td>no styling needed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><thead></td>
<td>is used to group header content in an HTML table</td>
<td><code>font-weight: bold;</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tbody></td>
<td>is used to group the body content in an HTML table</td>
<td>no styling needed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tr></td>
<td>defines a row in an HTML table</td>
<td>no styling needed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><th></td>
<td>defines a header cell in an HTML table</td>
<td><code>font-weight: bold;</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><td></td>
<td>defines a standard cell in an HTML table</td>
<td><code>font-weight: normal;</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tfoot></td>
<td>is used to group footer content in an HTML table</td>
<td>no styling needed</td>
</tr>
</table>
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