Shampa M. Ghosh

Assistant Professor

Dr. Shampa M. Ghosh is an evolutionary biologist and her research focus is experimental evolution and evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-devo). She uses fruit flies for her research, and built up the first Drosophila research laboratory of Bhubaneswar at KIIT. She did her PhD in Evolutionary and Organsimal Biology from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) Bangalore India (with Prof. Amitabh Joshi), and worked as a postdoctoral scientist at Michigan State University USA (with Prof. Alexander Shingleton) focusing on development, genetics, and plasticity. She has been a visiting faculty at the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER, Jatni, Odisha) from 2016 to 2018. Dr. Ghosh has also worked briefly for Bionivid Technology Pvt. Limited. She worked as a DST Women Scientist A at KIIT focusing on experimental evolution from 2017 to 2020. Her current research focuses on plasticity and evolution in Drosophila.

Educational Qualification

PhD

Course Expertise

Research Interests

Administrative Responsibilities

Academic coordinator

Awards and Achievements

DST Women Scientist A Fellowship

Professional Membership

  • Genetics Society of America
  • Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists Evolutionary

Projects & Collaborations

As PI: Experimental evolution of thermal plasticity of body and organ size in Drosophila melanogaster, under Women Scientist Scheme A (WOS-A) scheme, DST, Govt. of India, 2017-2020

Outreach Activity

Apart from my research, I love reaching out to the general audience and write popular science articles about Evolution and my research. Here are two invited popular science articles about my work. The third one is a coverage of one of my papers.

  • Ghosh SM. 2020. Witnessing Evolution as It Happens. https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/SitePages/resources-i-wonder-issue-4-witnessing-evolution.aspx
  • Ghosh SM 2013. Phenotypic Plasticity & Evolution. https://www3.beacon-center.org/blog/2013/04/08/beacon-researchers-at-work-phenotypic-plasticity-and-evolution
  • Stead, Nicola. 2013. “”How Big is Big Enough? O2’s Role in Sensing Body Size.”” The Journal of Experimental Biology 216.23 (2013): ii-ii. https://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/23/ii