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Teaching and supervision >5 undergraduate students, Think Lab, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Bachelor's thesis, Horizontal transfer of Spiroplasma from Drosophila hydei to Drosophila melanogaster, Jasmin Junert, 2023
Bachelor's thesis, Influence of Spiroplasma infections in Drosophila melanogaster on parasitoid behavior, Joelle Majatschek,
2025
Bachelor's thesis, Does the protective phenotype of Spiroplasma evolve during adaptation to novel host? Finja Unnewehr,
2025
Internship, Persistence of male-killing (MSRO) Spiroplasma in Drosophila melanogaster populations, Julian Reichstein,
2023-01-01, 2024-12-31
Internship, Spiroplasma density dynamics, Jakob Hartmann, 2025
Assisted Master's course lecture update and preparation with Prof. Dr. Alexandra Nora Müllner-Riehl, Uni Leipzig, Leipzig,
Germany, 2024
M.Sc.
Pratyaksh Singh
PhD Candidate
he/him
Contact & Availability
Email: pratyaksh.singh@idiv.de
Office: Room B.01.09 @ iDiv, Puschstraße 4, 04103 Leipzig
Phone:+49 341 9739220
About Me & Research
Short Bio:
I am interested in how symbionts are generated, maintained, and persists in the host in evolutionary timeframe. Further keen to
understand how symbiont diversity is leads to speciation using natural and experimental settings.
Research Interests:
- Symbiont evolution
- Co-evolutionary host-symbiont dynamics
- Experimental Evolution and speciation
Current Projects:
Experimental evolution of inherited symbionts in novel hosts.
Fun Fact:
My non-research persona is bee and I am infamous in the friend’s group for various bee products at home. I love parasitoid
waspssss (aren’t they fascinating, how cannot they be?
if not in the office/lab then you’d find me hiking ideally in harsh landscapes
Career
- 2022 - now: PhD candidate, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
- 2022: M.Sc. in Organismic, Evolution and Paleobiology (OEP-Biology). Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn – Germany Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn – Germany. Thesis: "Interspecific differences in host finding traits in Nasonia wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Pteromalinae). Supervisor: Dr. Ralph S Peters, PD Dr. Lars Podsiadlowski. GPA: 1.5
- 2018: B.Sc. (Honours) in Botany. University of Delhi - India GPA: 1.85
- 2025: Visiting Researcher. Medical University of Vienna - Vienna, Austria Localization of Spiroplasma in native and non-native hosts
- 2020: , Internship. Zoological Research Museum Alexander König/ LIB - Bonn, Germany Diversity, biology and species delimitation of Afro-tropical parasitoid wasps: Understanding species delimitation of Afrotropical parasitoid wasps, Ceraphronoidea and resulting in discovering and describing 6 new species from Gabon
- 2015 - 2018: Researcher. Th!nk Lab, Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi - Delhi, India Understanding bee diversity and ecology in New Delhi: Analysis of data to correlate the impact of fertilizers on the bee population, sampling methods for bee mapping, the effect of ecological communities on environmental heterogeneity, identification and fixation of bees & Understanding the symbiosis between earthworm (E. fetida) and its gut cellulolytic bacteria: Analysis of cellulose degradation/screening of cellulase activity using microbiological techniques, including theoretical study of the evolutionary selection of cellulose in different animal species and microbiological and biochemical study of gut flora and its ecology
- 2017: Summer Internship. Plant Biotechnology Lab, University of Delhi - Delhi, India DNA barcoding of Medicinal Plants: In Silico analysis, herbal sample collections, DNA extraction and purification, gel electrophoresis
- 2015 - 2016: Researcher. Innovation Lab, University of Delhi - Delhi, India Development of low-cost, robust, portable water purifier prototype with Physical, chemical and biological filtration for field water disinfection and portable water generation in natural calamity affected zones with harsh conditions.
Experience
Publications & Teaching
Teaching:
Online Profiles
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