Rohini Balakrishnan

Rohini Balakrishnan is an Indian bioacoustics expert. She is a senior Professor and Chair of the Centre for Ecological Sciences at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. Her team works on different aspects of animal communication and bioacoustics to help understand animal behaviour. [1][2]

Rohini Balakrishnan
NationalityIndian
CitizenshipIndian
Alma materTata Institute of Fundamental Research
Scientific career
FieldsAnimal communication, bioacoustics
InstitutionsIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Doctoral advisorVeronica Rodrigues
InfluencesObaid Siddiqi
Websitehttp://ces.iisc.ernet.in/rohini/

Education and career

Balakrishnan has a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and a Master’s in Zoology. She received her PhD in behaviour genetics in 1991 from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai, India. She was the first Ph.D. student of Veronica Rodrigues, an Indian geneticist.[3][4]

She then moved into the field of behavioural ecology, studying acoustic communication in animals and carried out postdoctoral research at McGill University, Canada, from 1993-1996, followed by a second postdoc at the University of Erlangen, Germany (1996-1998).[2] She joined the IISc, Bangalore in 1998 where she is currently Professor and Chair of the Centre for Ecological Sciences.

Research

Balakrishnan's current research is on acoustic communication in animals, focusing primarily on crickets and katydids as study systems. Over the past 15 years, she has worked extensively on cricket species in the tropical forests of Karnataka. Her team aims to develop and validate databases of acoustic signals of various species to facilitate identification of different animals, without actual physical contact. She aims to develop means to aid periodic biodiversity monitoring exercises with an automated recorder installed in an environment.[2][1]

Publications

References
  1. "IISc Team Studying how Insects Talk". Neweindianexpress.com. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  2. "Chasing the Music in Nature: In Conversation with Bioacoustician Dr Rohini Balakrishnan". The Weather Channel. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  3. "Obaid Siddiqi and Veronica Rodrigues". Ces.iisc.ernet.in. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  4. "4 Academic generations". ces.iisc.ernet.in. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  5. Deb, Rittik; Modak, Sambita; Balakrishnan, Rohini (7 May 2020). "Baffling: A cheater strategy using self-made tools in tree crickets". bioRxiv: 2020.05.06.080143. doi:10.1101/2020.05.06.080143.
  6. Balakrishnan, Rohini (1 August 2005). "Species Concepts, Species Boundaries and Species Identification: A View from the Tropics". Systematic Biology. 54 (4): 689–693. doi:10.1080/10635150590950308. ISSN 1063-5157.
  7. Balakrishnan, ROHINI; Pollack, GERALD S. (1 February 1996). "Recognition of courtship song in the field cricket,Teleogryllus oceanicus". Animal Behaviour. 51 (2): 353–366. doi:10.1006/anbe.1996.0034. ISSN 0003-3472.
  8. Balakrishnan, R.; Pollack, G. (1 January 1997). "The role of antennal sensory cues in female responses to courting males in the cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus". Journal of Experimental Biology. 200 (3): 511–522. ISSN 0022-0949. PMID 9318192.
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