PhD Student
Contact
Email: tanvi.madaan(at)ist.ac.at
Academic platforms
Career
since 2023 | PhD student, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), AT |
07/2023 – 09/2023 | Scientific intern, ISTA, AT |
2018 – 2023 | MSc/BSc student, IISER Mohali, Punjab, IN |
2022 – 2023 | MS thesis, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), PT |
2019 – 2022 | Semester project, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Mohali, IN |
2021 – 2022 | Research intern, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore, IN |
2021 – 2022 | Research intern, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Washington D.C., US |
05/2020 – 08/2020 | Research intern, Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Plön, DE |
06/2019 – 07/2019 | Research intern, Dr. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, Delhi, IN |
Research Interests
I am a PhD student interested how collective nutritional choices in ant colonies are shaped by infection. I am also interested in exploring the resistance-tolerance paradigm under social immunity. My PhD project is a collaboration with Enikö Csata, University of Toulouse, France.
Fellowships and Awards
2022 – 2023 | SSE/Beacon Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution (UDE), Travel Award |
2019 – 2023 | KVPY Fellowship for Research Students Funded by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India |
2018 – 2019 | DST-INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education Funded by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India |
Social Immunity Publications
Other Publications
- Basu A, Singh A, Sehgal S, Madaan T, Prasad NG (2024)
Starvation increases susceptibility to bacterial infection and promotes systemic pathogen proliferation in Drosophila melanogaster females.
Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 207, 108209
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2024.108209 - Puzović N, Madaan T, Dutheil TY (2023)
Being noisy in a crowd: Differential selective pressure on gene expression noise in model gene regulatory networks.
PLOS Computational Biology, 19(4), e1010982
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010982