Assam Don Bosco University

About

Designation : Assistant Professor (stage II)
Department : Zoology
Date of Joining : 2023-07-17
Qualification : PhD

Experience

Teaching : 1 Years
Teaching details :
North-Eastern Hill University
Area of Interest :
Ethology, Ecology and Evolution

Volunteer : 1 Years
Volunteer details :
Disaster relief (Nepal), Water and Forest conservation (Meghalaya and Auroville, India)

Hobbies :
Volleyball, Tennis, Badminton, Hiking, TT
Research : 5 Years

Award / Recognition / Achievement / Professional Membership / Grant

1. Award - National Postdoctoral Fellowship
   Awarded on 2021-12-16
   Awarded by Department of Science and Technology
   
   Grant Amount for 2 years
   
2. Award - Dr. D S Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship
   Awarded on 2021-09-14
   Awarded by University Grants Commision
   
   Grant Amount for 3 years
   
3. Recognition - PhD Gold Medal
   Awarded on 2019-06-11
   Awarded by Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
   
   Grant Amount for overall excellence
   

Conference / Workshop / Symposium / Training

1. Paper Presenter in Conference - European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) (International)
   Organised at Prague, Czech Republic from 2022-08-14 to 2022-08-19
   
2. Paper Presenter in Conference - Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) (International)
   Organised at Antananarivo, Madagascar from 2019-07-30 to 2019-08-03
   
3. Paper Presenter in Conference - Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) and International Ethological Society (International)
   Organised at Estoril, portugal from 2017-07-30 to 2017-08-04
   
4. Participant in Training - Ant and Canopy Bootcamp (International)
   Organised at Madagascar Biodiversity Center from 2019-07-01 to 2019-07-29
   
5. Participant in Workshop - Ant Course and Taxonomy Workshop (International)
   Organised at Mozambique from 2016-07-28 to 2016-08-07
   

Research and Publication

Journal

1. Anoop Karunakaran and Annagiri Sumana, Response to a change in the target nest during ant relocation, Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 218, pages 887-892, 2022
   Indexing - Scopus,, Impact factor - 3.308
   ISSN 14779145, ISBN ,
2. Anoop Karunakaran and Annagiri Sumana, Individual and colony level choice during relocation to unequal target nests in an Indian queenless ant Diacamma indicum, Insectes Sociaux, volume 65, pages 153-160, 2021
   Indexing - Scopus,, Impact factor - 1.946
   ISSN 14209098, ISBN ,
3. Aswaj Punnath, Anoop Karunakaran and Priyadarsanan Dharmarajan, Description of two new species of ants of the genus Myrmecina Curtis, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from the Eastern Himalayas, Zootaxa, volume 4990, pages 160-171, 2021
   Indexing - Scopus,, Impact factor - 1.028
   ISSN 11755334, ISBN ,
4. Anoop Karunakaran, Purbayan Ghosh and Annagiri Sumana, Faster transport through slower runs: ant relocation dynamics in nature, Ethology Ecology and Evolution, volume 33, pages 156-169, 2021
   Indexing - Scopus,, Impact factor - 1.14
   ISSN 03949370, ISBN ,
5. Aswaj Punnath, Anoop Karunakaran and Priyadarsanan Dharmarajan, First record of the rarely collected ant Protanilla gengma Xu, 2012 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Leptanillinae) from the Indian subcontinent, Check List, volume 16, pages 1621-1625, 2020
   Indexing - Scopus,, Impact factor - 0.54
   ISSN 1809127x, ISBN ,
6. Rajbir Kaur, Joby Joseph, Anoop Karunakaran and Annagiri Sumana, 6 Characterization of recruitment through tandem running in an Indian queenless ant Diacamma indicum, Royal Society Open Science, volume 4, pages 160476, 2016
   Indexing - Scopus,, Impact factor - 3.653
   ISSN 20545703, ISBN ,
7. Rajbir Kaur, Anoop Karunakaran and Annagiri Sumana, Leaders follow leaders to reunite the colony: relocation dynamics of an Indian queenless ant in its natural habitat, Animal Behaviour, volume 83, pages 1345-1353, 2012
   Indexing - Scopus,, Impact factor - 3.041
   ISSN 00033472, ISBN ,

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