Sushant Potdar
Graduate Student
Email: sdpotdar@email.uark.edu
University of Arkansas, Department of Biological Sciences
Science and Engineering, Room 601
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Education
MSc TERI School of Advanced Studies 2016
New Delhi, India
Thesis: Activity time budget of Pieris canida across an elevational gradient in Himachal Pradesh
India Advisors: Krushnamegh Kunte and Sudipta Chatteriee
BSc Bangalore University
St. Joseph’s College
Bangalore, India
Dissertation study: History of water management in Bangalore
Advisor: B.S. Prabhakar
Research Experience
Project Assistant, BEER Lab, December 2016-June 218
National Centre for Biological Sciences
Bangalore, India
Project: Effect of climate warming on insect-pollinated plants
Teaching
Present- Teaching assistant, University of Arkansas
Principles of Biology Lab (BIOL 1541L) Dr. Lora Shadwick (Coordinator)
Principles of Zoology Lab (BIOL 1601L) Dr. Erica Westerman (Coordinator)
Publications
Potdar, S. & Westerman, E.L. (2021) Digest: Recurrence of sexually dimorphic neurological structure in neotropical butterflies. Evolution 75(12): 3221-3223. DOI: 10.1111/evo.14401
Zhang, Y., Teng, D., Lu, W., Líu, M., Zheng, H., Cao, L., Southcott, L., Potdar, S., Westerman, E., Zhu, A., Zhang, W. (2021) A widely diverged locus involved in locomotor adaptation in Heliconius butterflies. Science Advances 7:eabh2340 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abh2340
Selected Scientific Presentations:
Potdar, S., Westerman, E.L. (2021) “Toxic, unpalatable and aposematic butterflies respond to specialist predatory bird calls” Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (talk)
Potdar, S., Westerman, E.L. (2020) “Behavioral changes in unpalatable butterflies in response to predatory bird calls ” Animal Behavior Society Annual Meeting (talk)
Potdar, S. (2018) “Activity time budget of Indian cabbage white (Pieris canida) across an elevational gradient in Himachal Pradesh, India” Young Ecologists Talk and Interact (YETI) conference, Vadodara, India (talk and poster)
Potdar, S., (2017) “Effect of warming on insect pollinated plants using Coriandrum sativum and Cumin cyminum as model systems” Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS), Bangalore India (talk)
Awards
Ron Leuschner Memorial Fund for Research on Lepidoptera, Lepidopterists’ Society 2021
Grants-in-Aid of Research (GIAR), Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology 2020-2021
Best Speaker Award September 2017
Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS)
Bangalore, India