Souvik Mandal

Employment

• Harvard University Post-doctoral researcher
  2018 - Present
• Indian Institute of Science PhD student
  2009 - 2017

Education

• Indian Institute of Science Ph.D.
  2009 - 2017
• Presidency University M. Sc.
  2007 - 2009

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (11)

• Dynamics of cooperative excavation in ant and robot collectives
  S Ganga Prasath, Souvik Mandal, Fabio Giardina

  +3 more

  • Jordan Kennedy
  • Venkatesh N. Murthy
  • L. Mahadevan
  eLife 2022 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.79638
  +Save
• To leave or to stay: direct fitness through natural nest foundation in a primitively eusocial wasp
  Anindita Brahma, Souvik Mandal, Raghavendra Gadagkar
  Insectes Sociaux 2019 DOI: 10.1007/s00040-019-00702-2
  +Save
• Getting older, getting smarter: Ontogeny of the foraging behaviour in the tropical social wasp Ropalidia marginata
  Journal of Experimental Biology 2019 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.199844
  +Save
• How do animals find their way back home? A brief overview of homing behavior with special reference to social Hymenoptera
  Insectes Sociaux 2018 DOI: 10.1007/s00040-018-0647-2
  +Save
• Ontogeny of familiarity with foraging landscape and foraging abilities in the tropical social wasp Ropalidia marginata
  2018 DOI: 10.1101/272831
  +Save
• Current indirect fitness and future direct fitness are not incompatible
  Anindita Brahma, Souvik Mandal, Raghavendra Gadagkar
  Biology Letters 2018 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0592
  +Save
• A Route to Direct Fitness: Natural and Experimentally Induced Queen Succession in the Tropical Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidia marginata
  Pallabi Saha, Anjan K. Nandi, Sruthi Unnikrishnan

  +5 more

  • M. C. Shilpa
  • Shantanu P. Shukla
  • Souvik Mandal
  • Aniruddha Mitra
  • Raghavendra Gadagkar
  Journal of Insect Behavior 2018 DOI: 10.1007/s10905-017-9657-6
  +Save
• Cooperative defence operates by social modulation of biogenic amine levels in the honey bee brain
  Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2018 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2653
  +Save
• Emergence of cooperation and division of labor in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2018 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1714006115
  +Save
• Homing in a tropical social wasp: role of spatial familiarity, motivation and age
  Journal of Comparative Physiology A 2017 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-017-1202-8
  +Save
• Homing abilities of the tropical primitively eusocial paper wasp Ropalidia marginata
  Journal of Comparative Physiology A 2015 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-015-1019-2
  +Save