Dr. Priyadarsanan Dharmarajan

Senior Fellow - 2 (Professor)

priyan@atree.org

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Professional Preparation:

University of Calicut, Kerala Ph. D. Entomology 1995
Sree Narayana College, Kollam, Kerala M.Sc. (Zoology) 1987
Sree Narayana College, Kollam, Kerala B.Sc. (Zoology) 1985.

Experience

April 2010- Senior Fellow & Program Leader (Ecosystems & Global Change), Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore.
April 2009- Senior Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore.
April 1999-March 2009: Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore.
June1998-March1999: Senior Research Associate, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore.
Nov. 1997-May 98 :Research Associate, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.
Nov.1995-Oct. 97 : Working on the Post PhD publications (monograph, Fig insects of Kerala and other research papers).
Also was working as Hatchery Technician (Part-time consultant) at the BFFDA Shrimp Hatchery at Neendakara (Kollam).
Nov 1989- Oct 95 : Research Scholar. University of Calicut, Kerala.
April 1987-Oct 1989: Lecturer (Jyothy College, Sasthankotta, Kollam and Nalanda Academy, Anchalummood, Kollam.

Programme:

Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation Planning

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Journal Articles

Sasidharan, T.O., O.K. Remadevi, A. Anitha Rani, P. Dharmarajan and J. Bhattacharya. 2008 New record of a microsporidian parasite from the teak defoliator, Hyblaea puera Cramer (Lepidoptera: Hyblaeidae).

Bai, N. S., T.O. Sasidharan, O. K. Remadevi, P. Dharmarajan and M. Balachander. 2008 Efficacy of Metarhizium isolates against the polyphagous defoliator pest, Spilarctia obliqua Walker (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) on forestry species.

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