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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Amitabh Joshi
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1965|3|4}}
| birth_place = [[Agra]], India
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| residence = [[Bengaluru]], [[Karnataka]], India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Evolutionary biology]] | [[Genetics]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Washington State University]] | [[Indian Institute of Science]] | [[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research]] | [[Berlin Institute for Advanced Study]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Delhi University]] | [[Washington State University]] | [[University of California, Irvine]] }}
| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist | John N. Thompson | Michael E. Moody | Laurence D. Mueller }}
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Studies on [[Population genetics]]<br/>[[Quantitative genetics]]<br/>[[Extended evolutionary synthesis|Evolutionary genetics]]<br/>[[Population ecology]]
| awards = {{ublist | 2009 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 2010 [[Lakshmipat Singhania Academy|LSA]]-[[IIM Lucknow]] National Leadership Award }}
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'''Amitabh Joshi''' (born 1965) is an Indian evolutionary biologist, geneticist and a professor at [[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research]] (JNCASR).<ref name="IN CONVERSATION: Amitabh Joshi">{{cite web | url=http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/108/10/1838.pdf | title=IN CONVERSATION: Amitabh Joshi | publisher=Current Science | work=Special feature | date=25 May 2015 | access-date=27 October 2016}}</ref><ref name="Pick a career for interest, not scope">{{cite web | url=http://getahead.rediff.com/report/2009/nov/18/achiever-meet-professor-amitabh-joshi.htm | title=Pick a career for interest, not scope | publisher=ReDiff | date=18 November 2009 | access-date=28 October 2016}}</ref> He heads the ''Evolutionary Biology Laboratory'' at JNCASR and is known for his studies on [[Genetics]] and [[Population ecology]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=363 | title=Brief Profile of the Awardee | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref> An elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="Fellow Profile - Amitabh Joshi">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Joshi,_Prof._Amitabh | title=Fellow Profile - Amitabh Joshi | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=25 October 2016}}</ref> [[National Academy of Sciences, India]],<ref name="NASI fellows">{{cite web | url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=J | title=NASI fellows | publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India | date=2016 | access-date=26 October 2016}}</ref> and [[Indian National Science Academy]], he is also a J. C. Bose National Fellow of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]].<ref name="Indian fellow - Amitabh Joshi">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=P11-1546 | title=Indian fellow - Amitabh Joshi | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2016 | access-date=25 October 2016}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2009, for his contributions to biological sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref>

== Biography ==
[[File:Drosophila melanogaster - side (aka).jpg|thumb|150px|left|Drosophila melanogaster]]
Joshi was born on 4 March 1965 to Devi and Datt Joshi-Nirmala in the Indian city of [[Agra]]. He did his graduate (BSc Hons in Botany - 1988) and master's studies (M.Sc. in Genetics - 1988) from [[Delhi University]] and moved to [[Washington State University]] from where he obtained a PhD in 1993, under the guidance of John N. Thompson and Michael E. Moody.<ref name="Amitabh Joshi - Brief CV">{{cite web | url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/ajoshi/index.php?menu_id=17&user_id=299&page_id=681 | title=Amitabh Joshi - Brief CV | publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research | work=Faculty profile | date=2016 | access-date=27 October 2016}}</ref> His Ph.D. thesis was titled ''Coevolution and variation in competition between [[Drosophila]] species;'' his collaboration with Moody returned a number of articles published in the [[Journal of Theoretical Biology]].<ref name="On evolutionary biology, and a passion for science">{{cite interview | URL=https://indiabioscience.org/columns/conversations/on-evolutionary-biology-and-a-passion-for-science-interview-with-amitabh-joshi | title=On evolutionary biology, and a passion for science | date=19 November 2015 | access-date=27 October 2016 | last=Amitabh Joshi | interviewer=Anjali Vaidya | publisher=India Bioscience}}</ref> During this period, he also worked as a research assistant (1987–88) and a teaching assistant at the university (1987–93). He stayed in the US until 1996 to complete his post-doctoral studies on ''Adaptation to larval and adult crowding in fruit flies'' at the laboratory of [http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~mueller/ Laurence D. Mueller] of the [[University of California, Irvine]] and returned to India to work as a visitor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences of [[Indian Institute of Science]] for a month.<ref name="IN CONVERSATION: Amitabh Joshi" /> In August 1996, he joined [[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research]] as a member of faculty at the ''Animal Behaviour Unit'' and shifted to ''Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit'' in 1998 where he rose in rank from a faculty fellow (1998–2001) to an associate professor,<ref name="GuptaKumar2006">{{cite book|author1=Ameeta Gupta|author2=Ashish Kumar|title=Handbook of Universities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZKgM7P5iGwgC&pg=PA418|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-269-0607-9|pages=418–}}</ref> reaching the position of a professor in 2007. He heads the Evolutionary Biology Laboratory of the institution where he hosts a number of research scholars. In between, he served as a visiting faculty at the [[Berlin Institute for Advanced Study]] in 2001.<ref name="Indian fellow - Amitabh Joshi" /> He is also an adjunct faculty of the [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali]]<ref name="Adjunct faculty">{{cite web | url=http://www.iisermohali.ac.in/html/faculty/faculty.html | title=Adjunct faculty | publisher=Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali | date=2016 | access-date=28 October 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205184329/http://www.iisermohali.ac.in/html/faculty/faculty.html | archive-date=5 February 2017 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> and resides in [[Bengaluru]], in [[Karnataka]].<ref name="Professor of Evolutionary and Organismal Biology">{{cite web | url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/eobu/ajoshi-present-position.htm | title=Professor of Evolutionary and Organismal Biology | publisher=JNCASR | date=2016 | access-date=27 October 2016}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
Joshi continues his early researches on Drosophila but has now combined his evolution studies with theoretical work using computer simulations.<ref name="Indian fellow - Amitabh Joshi" /> His researches focuses on the inter-relations between the genetics of organisms and their ecology and the influence of these factors in their evolutionary path. His laboratory studies various evolutionary aspects such as the rate of development, patterns of progeny and ageing and investigates the development of competitive abilities and stress resistance in organisms.<ref name="Our Research in Evolutionary Genetics">{{cite web | url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/eobu/evolbiollab.htm | title=Our Research in Evolutionary Genetics | publisher=JNCASR | date=2016 | access-date=27 October 2016}}</ref> His researches have been documented by way of a number of articles{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and several of them have been listed by many major online article repositories such as [[Google Scholar]],<ref name="Amitabh Joshi on Google Scholar">{{cite web | url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sLhNqsgAAAAJ | title=Amitabh Joshi on Google Scholar | publisher=Google Scholar | date=2016 | access-date=27 October 2016}}</ref> [[ResearchGate]],<ref name="Amitabh Joshi on ResearchGate">{{cite web | url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amitabh_Joshi | title=Amitabh Joshi on ResearchGate | date=2016 | access-date=27 October 2016}}</ref> Academic Tree<ref name="Amitabh Joshi on Academic Tree">{{cite web | url=http://academictree.org/evolution/publications.php?pid=153659 | title=Amitabh Joshi on Academic Tree | publisher=Academic Tree | date=2016 | access-date=27 October 2016}}</ref> and PubFacts.<ref name="Amitabh Joshi on PubFacts">{{cite web | url=http://www.pubfacts.com/author/Amitabh+Joshi?tr=1 | title=Amitabh Joshi on PubFacts | publisher=PubFacts | date=2016 | access-date=27 October 2016}}</ref> He has also published a book, ''Stability in Model Populations'', co-authored by his post-doctoral guide, Laurence D. Mueller.<ref name="MuellerJoshi2000">{{cite book|author1=Laurence D. Mueller|author2=Amitabh Joshi|title=Stability in Model Populations |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwbtjnnA7PoC|year=2000|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9780691007335}}</ref> He is on the list of mentors of doctoral studies at the [[Indian Institute of Science]]<ref name="List of Mentors for the Year 2016">{{cite web | url=http://www.iiserpune.ac.in/~mbio/sites/default/files/nnmcb/files/mentors_nnmcb_internship_2016_oct_162015_169.pdf | title=List of Mentors for the Year 2016 | publisher=Indian Institute of Science | date=2016 | access-date=28 October 2016}}</ref> and has guided several scholars in their researches.<ref name="Curriculum Vitae - Sudipta Tung">{{cite web | url=http://students.iiserkol.ac.in/~sudiptatung/cv.pdf | title=Curriculum Vitae - Sudipta Tung | publisher=Students.IISER Kolkata | date=2016 | access-date=28 October 2016}}</ref>

At [[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research]], Joshi has served as a member of the Screening Committee for Life Sciences and sat as the convenor of the committee in 1999 and 2000.<ref name="Amitabh Joshi - Brief CV" /> He is a former member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit of JNCASR during 1999–2001 and was the coordinator of the ''Discussion Meeting on Origin and Evolution of Life'', an [[Indian Space Research Organisation|ISRO]]-[[Indian Academy of Sciences|IAS]] event held in [[Coorg]] in 2000. He was also associated in organizing seminars and conferences such as the Association for Tropical Biology-Annual Meeting (Bengaluru 2001), One-Day Symposium on Evolutionary Biology in honour of Stephen Jay Gould (JNCASR 2002), Workshop on Adaptation and Time (JNCASR 2002) and Four Day Lecture Programme on Evolutionary and Organismal Biology (Delhi University 2002). He is a former member of the Vice Chancellor's Empowered Committee for Restructuring the Undergraduate Science Programme of Delhi University (2002–04), Planning Committee of Indian School in Chronobiology (2002), Expert Consultative Committee of the Department of Science and Technology (2004) and Sectional Committee of [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] for Animal and Plant Sciences (2004–06) and sits in the Board of Studies in Genetics of [[Mysore University]] and Project Advisory Committee for Animal Sciences of Department of Science and Technology. He has been associated with Resonance: Journal of Science Education (editorial board member, associate editor), Journal of Biosciences on the Origin of Life (guest editor 1997–98), Journal of Genetics on ''Evolutionary genetics: the Drosophila model'' (guest editor–2003) and the Journal of Genetics (editor).<ref name="Amitabh Joshi - Brief CV" /> He was also among the 370 scientists who expresses their disapproval of the handling of [[2016 JNU protests]].<ref name="Over 370 Scientists Express Disappointment With JNU VC">{{cite web | url=http://thewire.in/21911/over-370-scientists-express-disappointment-with-jnu-vc/ | title=Over 370 Scientists Express Disappointment With JNU VC | publisher=The Wire | date=17 February 2016 | access-date=28 October 2016}}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
Joshi was selected as a ''Young Associate'' by the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] in 1997 for a period of three years<ref name="Amitabh Joshi - Brief CV" /> and was elected as its fellow in 2001.<ref name="Fellow Profile - Amitabh Joshi" /> The same year, he was elected by [[Berlin Institute for Advanced Study]] as a fellow for his project, ''Life History Evolution in Drosophila''.<ref name="BIAS fellow">{{cite web | url=https://www.wiko-berlin.de/en/fellows/fellowfinder/detail/2000-joshi-amitabh/?no_cache=1&cHash=5a8231ccf7dc930e517ef63ada61ab4f | title=BIAS fellow | publisher=Berlin Institute for Advanced Study | date=2016 | access-date=28 October 2016}}</ref> He was elected as a [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] fellow in 2002<ref name="NASI fellows" /> and the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2009 for his contributions to Biological Sciences.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=5 October 2016 | pages=34 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> A J. C. Bose National fellow, Joshi was selected for the National Leadership Award of the [[Lakshmipat Singhania Academy]]-[[IIM Lucknow]] in 2010. In 2011, the [[Indian National Science Academy]] elected him as a fellow.<ref name="Indian fellow - Amitabh Joshi" />

== Selected bibliography ==
=== Books ===
* {{cite book|author1=Laurence D. Mueller|author2=Amitabh Joshi|title=Stability in Model Populations|year=2000|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9780691007335|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/stabilityinmodel0000muel}}

=== Articles ===
* {{cite journal | title=Enhancement of larval immune system traits as a correlated response to selection for rapid development in Drosophila melanogaster |author1=PUNYATIRTHA DEY |author2=KANIKA MENDIRATTA |author3=JOY BOSE |author4=Amitabh Joshi | journal=Journal of Genetics | date=July 2016 | doi=10.1007/s12041-016-0659-5 |pmid=27659343 | volume=95 |issue=3 | pages=719–723|s2cid=39742982 }}
* {{cite journal | title=Evolution of increased larval competitive ability in Drosophila melanogaster without increased larval feeding rate |author1=MANASWINI SARANGI |author2=Archana Nagarajan |author3=Snigdhadip Dey |author4=JOY BOSE |author5=Amitabh Joshi | journal=Journal of Genetics | date=July 2016 | doi=10.1007/s12041-016-0656-8 |pmid=27659320 | volume=95 |issue=3 | pages=491–503|s2cid=15418527 }}
* {{cite journal | title=Adaptation to larval crowding in Drosophila ananassae and Drosophila nasuta nasuta: increased larval competitive ability without increased larval feeding rate |author1=Archana Nagarajan |author2=SHARMILA BHARATHI NATARAJAN |author3=Mohan Jayaram |author4=ANANDA THAMMANNA |author5=Sudarshan Chari |author6=JOY BOSE |author7=Shreyas Venkataraman Jois |author8=Amitabh Joshi | journal=Journal of Genetics | date=June 2016 | volume=95 | issue=2 | doi=10.1007/s12041-016-0655-9 |pmid=27350686 | pages=411–425|s2cid=368124 }}
* {{cite journal | title=Rethinking inheritance, yet again: inheritomes, contextomes and dynamic phenotypes |vauthors=Prasad NG, Dey S, Joshi A, Vidya TN | journal=Journal of Genetics | year=2015 | volume=94 |issue=3 | pages=367–76 | pmid=26440075 | doi=10.1007/s12041-015-0554-5|s2cid=8445547 }}
* {{cite journal | title=Remarks on the article on life-history traits in Drosophila populations selected for rapid development by Yadav and Sharma |vauthors=Prasad NG, Joshi A | journal=Journal of Experimental Biology | year=2015 | volume=218 |issue=2 | pages=326–7 | doi=10.1242/jeb.117366|pmid=25609787 | doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal | title=A possible mechanism for the attainment of out-of-phase periodic dynamics in two chaotic subpopulations coupled at low dispersal rate |vauthors=Dey S, Goswami B, Joshi A | journal=Journal of Theoretical Biology | year=2015 | volume=367 | pages=100–10 | doi=10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.11.028 | pmid=25497477}}
* {{cite journal | title=Rethinking inheritance, yet again: inheritomes, contextomes and dynamic phenotypes |vauthors=Prasad NG, Dey S, Joshi A, Vidya TN | journal=Journal of Genetics | year=2015 | volume=94 |issue=3 | pages=367–76 | doi=10.1007/s12041-015-0554-5 | pmid=26440075|s2cid=8445547 }}

== See also ==
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* [[Drosophila melanogaster]]
* [[Population ecology]]
* [[Extended evolutionary synthesis|Modern evolutionary synthesis]]
* [[On the Origin of Species]]
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite interview | title=Eureka with Amitabh Joshi | date=17 March 2015 | access-date=27 October 2016 | last=Amitabh Joshi | interviewer=Gauhar Raza | publisher=CSIR-NISCAIR Tube | url=http://scm.niscair.res.in/videos/317/dr.-amitabh-joshi,-professor,-jawaharlal-nehru-centre-for-advance-sc | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104000657/http://scm.niscair.res.in/videos/317/dr.-amitabh-joshi,-professor,-jawaharlal-nehru-centre-for-advance-sc | archive-date=4 November 2016 | url-status=dead }}
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfQVOFWcaQo | title=Amitabh Joshi - Basic genetics | publisher=International Centre for Theoretical Sciences | work=Discussion Meeting on Population Genetics and Evolution - [[YouTube]] video | date=2 April 2014 | access-date=27 October 2016}}
* {{cite web | url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/eobu/ajoshi-homepage.htm | title=Amitabh Joshi's Homepage | publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research | date=2016 | access-date=28 October 2016}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite interview | URL=https://indiabioscience.org/columns/conversations/on-evolutionary-biology-and-a-passion-for-science-interview-with-amitabh-joshi | title=On evolutionary biology, and a passion for science | date=19 November 2015 | access-date=27 October 2016 | last=Amitabh Joshi | interviewer=Anjali Vaidya | publisher=India Bioscience}}
* {{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/pm-to-scientists-make-a-break-with-the-past/article839937.ece | title=PM to scientists: make a break with the past | publisher=The Hindu | work=News report | date=21 October 2010 | access-date=28 October 2016}}

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