Aparna Lajmi

DBT Ramalingaswami Fellowships

Department of Life Sciences

GITAM School of Science

Visakhapatnam

Education

Ph.D.

alajmi@gitam.edu

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Aparna Lajmi is an evolutionary biologist interested in understanding ecological and genomic drivers of traits evolution. She did her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science and subsequent postdoc at the National Centre for Biological Sciences examining macroevolutionary patterns of traits and species evolution. She did her second postdoc at the University of Haifa, Israel, studying population genomics and genomic basis of traits in ants.

Research Publications

Lajmi, A.*, Glinka, F., & Privman, E*. (2023). Optimising ddRAD sequencing for population genomic studies using ddgRADer. Molecular Ecology Resources.
Errbii, M., Ernst, U.R., Lajmi, A., Privman, E., Gadau, J*., & Schrader, L*. (2024). Evolutionary genomics of socially polymorphic populations of Pogonomyrmex californicus. BMC Biol 22, 109.
Lajmi, A.*, & Karanth, K. P. (2020) Eocene–Oligocene cooling and the diversification of Hemidactylus geckos in Peninsular India. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 142, 106637.
Lajmi, A.*, Verma, A., & Karanth, K. P. (2020) Repeated evolution of terrestrial lineages in a continental lizard radiation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33(1) 55–66.
Lajmi, A., Bansal, R., Giri, V., & Karanth, P.* (2019). Phylogeny and biogeography of the endemic Hemidactylus geckos of the Indian subregion suggest multiple dispersals from Peninsular India to Sri Lanka. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186(1) 286–301.

Expertise

Evolutionary Biology
Molecular Phylogenetics
Population genomics
Ecology