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The Collections Team

The Collections Team

Ujwala Pawar

Curatorial Assistant and Research Fellow

Ujwala Pawar

Curatorial Assistant and Research Fellow

Email: ujwalamp@ncbs.res.in
Phone: +91 80 2366-6280

Prof. Krushnamegh Kunte

Faculty Coordinator of Research Collections

Prof. Krushnamegh Kunte

Faculty Coordinator of Research Collections

Associate Professor, NCBS
Curator of Lepidoptera, Cicadas and Odonata
 

Email: krushnamegh@ncbs.res.in
Phone: +91 80 2366-6085

Kiran Marathe

Curator of Cicadas and Spiders

Kiran Marathe

Curator of Cicadas and Spiders

NCBS Research Associate

 

Email: kiran@ifoundbutterflies.org
Phone: +91 80 2366-6280

Vivek Sarkar

Curator of Cicadas

Vivek Sarkar

Curator of Cicadas

NCBS Research Associate

 

Email: vivek@ifoundbutterflies.org
Phone: +91 80 2366-6280

Dipendra Nath Basu

Assistant Curator of Lepidoptera

Dipendra Nath Basu

Assistant Curator of Lepidoptera

Email: dipendran@ncbs.res.in
Phone: +91 80 2366-6086

Shantanu Joshi

Curator of Odonata

Shantanu Joshi

Curator of Odonata

NCBS Research Associate

 

Email: shantanu@ifoundbutterfiles.org
Phone: +91 80 2366-6280

People at Work

Specimen processing at Eaglenest, June 2015
Field work at Eaglenest, June 2015
Insect morphometric measurements at Eaglenest, June 2015
Field work at Buxa TR, April 2019
Krushnamegh Kunte in the Dry Collections, March 2019
Rishiddh Jhaveri and Anuradha Joglekar, August 2015
Tarun Karmakar, August 2015

Collections in Numbers

  • No. of specimens: 50,000
  • Frozen tissue library: 21,000 specimens
  • Type specimens: approx. 100
  • New species: approx. 30
  • Global taxonomic collaborations: 6
  • Number of publications: approx. 85
  • Data repatriation: 15,000 specimens

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Contact Us

Prof. Krushnamegh Kunte
Principal Investigator
The Biodiversity Lab Research Collections
National Centre for Biological Sciences
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
GKVK Campus, Bellary Road
Bengaluru 560065, India
Email: krushnamegh@ncbs.res.in
Phone: +91 80 2366-6085, +91 9483-525-925
Website: http://biodiversitycollections.in

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