Gaurav Athreya
@gauravathreya.bsky.social
maths, community & evolutionary ecology, evolution of cooperation. PhD-ing kokkonut in Mainz. amateur hiker and bread baker, professional stick insect parent. Previously: IISER Pune & the MPI for Evolutionary Biology
hello to everyone going to #ESEB2025! want to hear about the consequences of age-dependent plasticity in reproducing via sex vs. asex? I will give a talk at 11:15am on Thursday in S15.02. come for the pretty Hydra illustrations, stay for the novel evolutionary insights on facultative sex!
August 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
hello to everyone going to #ESEB2025! want to hear about the consequences of age-dependent plasticity in reproducing via sex vs. asex? I will give a talk at 11:15am on Thursday in S15.02. come for the pretty Hydra illustrations, stay for the novel evolutionary insights on facultative sex!
Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:
July 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:
Things have begun to feel very real (I was asked about choice of PC), so here goes:
I am THRILLED to share that from Jan 2024 I will start a PhD with Dr. Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social at the Uni Mainz! I feel very fortunate, and I can't wait for all the new ideas, people, and experiences!!
I am THRILLED to share that from Jan 2024 I will start a PhD with Dr. Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social at the Uni Mainz! I feel very fortunate, and I can't wait for all the new ideas, people, and experiences!!
November 21, 2023 at 10:29 AM
Things have begun to feel very real (I was asked about choice of PC), so here goes:
I am THRILLED to share that from Jan 2024 I will start a PhD with Dr. Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social at the Uni Mainz! I feel very fortunate, and I can't wait for all the new ideas, people, and experiences!!
I am THRILLED to share that from Jan 2024 I will start a PhD with Dr. Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social at the Uni Mainz! I feel very fortunate, and I can't wait for all the new ideas, people, and experiences!!
just learned of the existence of this remarkable thing: a choanoflagellate that forms hollow spherical colonies containing a microbiome inside! #ecoevo
(paper: Hake et al. 2021; found in the great book on multicellularity by Herron, @peterlconlin.bsky.social , and @wcratcliff.bsky.social )
(paper: Hake et al. 2021; found in the great book on multicellularity by Herron, @peterlconlin.bsky.social , and @wcratcliff.bsky.social )
October 26, 2023 at 10:55 PM
just learned of the existence of this remarkable thing: a choanoflagellate that forms hollow spherical colonies containing a microbiome inside! #ecoevo
(paper: Hake et al. 2021; found in the great book on multicellularity by Herron, @peterlconlin.bsky.social , and @wcratcliff.bsky.social )
(paper: Hake et al. 2021; found in the great book on multicellularity by Herron, @peterlconlin.bsky.social , and @wcratcliff.bsky.social )
Milestone: flipped a rock and found a saw-scaled viper underneath!
This one was calm, and allowed me to get close enough to see its wonderful golden eyes :) #herps
📍Phansad Wildlife Sanctuary, India
This one was calm, and allowed me to get close enough to see its wonderful golden eyes :) #herps
📍Phansad Wildlife Sanctuary, India
October 3, 2023 at 10:56 AM
Milestone: flipped a rock and found a saw-scaled viper underneath!
This one was calm, and allowed me to get close enough to see its wonderful golden eyes :) #herps
📍Phansad Wildlife Sanctuary, India
This one was calm, and allowed me to get close enough to see its wonderful golden eyes :) #herps
📍Phansad Wildlife Sanctuary, India
Hi all! I'm Gaurav, a theoretical biologist interested in animal behaviour, biodiversity, & evolutionary transitions. My (recently defended) master's thesis was on coevolution in endosymbioses; now I'm studying arthropod diversity in the Western Ghats (⬇️me looking for 🕷️🦂🐛🪲) #intro #evosky #ecoevo
September 14, 2023 at 6:12 AM
Hi all! I'm Gaurav, a theoretical biologist interested in animal behaviour, biodiversity, & evolutionary transitions. My (recently defended) master's thesis was on coevolution in endosymbioses; now I'm studying arthropod diversity in the Western Ghats (⬇️me looking for 🕷️🦂🐛🪲) #intro #evosky #ecoevo