Department of Evolutionary Paleobiology

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal data

Anwesha Saha
Born in 1990, Kolkata, India


Academic degrees

• 2018 – Ph.D. student at the International Doctoral Studies Course in the Biological Sciences with the PAS in Warsaw; Institute of Paleobiology PAS, "Geographic and stratigraphic distribution of Glires (Class: Mammalia) in the light of large scale statistical and phylogenetic analyses", scientific supervisor: Ph.D., D.Sc. Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik
• 2014–2015   M.Res (Masters by Research) in Biodiversity, Evolution & Conservation, University College London, London, UK.
• 2008–2011   B.Sc. in Microbiology (Hons.), St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous under University of Calcutta), Kolkata, India.

Awards and scholarschips

• 2019 Recipent of NAPC Student Travel Grant, University of California, Riverside, USA
• 2008–2011 Recipient of Award under Scheme of Scholarship for College & University, Government of India

Scientific meetings

• June 2019: 11th North American Paleontological Convention, University of California, Riverside, USA
  
• Sept 2013: Student Conference on Conservation Science, Bangalore chapter, India
• Jan 2013: 100th Indian Science Congress; Kolkata, India
• Jan 2012: 99th Indian Science Congress; Bhubaneswar, India
• Jan 2011: 98th Indian Science Congress; Chennai, India
• Jan 2010: 97th Indian Science Congress; Trivandrum, India

Professional experience

• 2019 Participant, Analytical Paleobiology Workshop: June 28 - July 23; Organized by NSF, Earth Rates, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleontological Society, University of California, Riverside, USA
• 2015–2018 Senior Research Project Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, Karnataka, India; Project 1: Phylogenetics of endangered freshwater snail Cremnoconchus (Family: Littorinidae); Project 2: The evolutionary genetics of anuran fauna of Western Ghats, India
• May–August 2015 MRes Research Intern, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, UK; Project: A Living Planet Index for Reptiles: How much we know about the global status and trend of reptiles
• Jan–April 2015 MRes Research Intern, The Natural History Museum London, UK. “Population genetics of Seychelles caecilian amphibians using microsatellites developed from Next Generation Sequence data”
• Jan–Aug 2014 Research intern, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, Karnataka, India;  Project 3: Phylogenetics of land snails (Family: Ariophantidae) of Western Ghats
• 2011–2013 Public Relation Officer and Project Co-ordinator, Nature-mates Nature Club (Non-Governmental Organization), India
• Feb 2012 Trainee, “Training Programme On Wildlife Conservation” conducted by Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India
• June 2011 Trainee, Herpetology workshop and Camp in Sunderbans with Herpetologist Mr Gowrishankar
• May 2011 Participant, Workshop on Field Research Techniques in “Agumbe Rainforest Research Station” (ARRS), India

Publications

Scientific papers

Fostowicz-Frelik Ł., Li, Q., Saha, A.. (2020). A gliriform tooth from the Eocene of the Erlian Basin (Nei Mongol, China) and the premolar morphology of anagalidan mammals at a crossroads. Diversity 12, 420.

Saha, A., McRae, L., Dodd, K., Gadsden, H., Hare, K.M., Vimoksalehi, L., & Böhm, M. (2018). Tracking Global Population Trends: Population Time-Series Data and a Living Planet Index for Reptiles. Journal of Herpetology, 52(3), 259–268. [text-journal site]

Vineeth, K.K., Radhakrishna, U.K. , Godwin, R.D., Saha, A.,  Rajashekhar, P.K., & Aravind, N.A. (2018). A new species of Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 (Anura: Microhylidae) from West Coast of India: an integrative taxonomic approach. Zootaxa. 4420 (2): 151–179: [text-journal site]

Saha, A. & Chaudhuri, A. (2017): Ptyas mucosa (Indian Rat Snake). Diet/Cannibalism. Herpetological Review. 48 (3): 681. [text-pdf]

Adamson, E.S., Saha, A. Maddock, S.T., Nussbaum, R.A, Gower, D.J., & Streicher, J.W. (2016) Microsatellite discovery in an insular amphibian (Grandisonia alternans) with comments on cross-species utility and the accuracy of locus identification from unassembled Illumina data. Conservation Genetics Resources. 8(4): 541-551. [text-journal site]

Anwesha Saha, Lucja Fostowicz-Frelik, Qian Li (2019): “Neither a rodent nor a lagomorph: Gomphos as the most successful basal Glires (Class: Mammalia) in the early Eocene of China” 11th North American Paleontological Convention, University of California, Riverside, USA

Anwesha Saha, Pip Banerjee, Priyanka Lahiri, Kaveri Banerjee, Avishek Ghosh, Radhika Saraf, Ayan Chandra, Arpita Banerjee, Sumitra Basu Thakur (2011): “Correlation between increasing pollution level and respiratory distress in the inhabitants of the City of Joy”; Proc: 98th Indian Science Congress: Abstract of  Poster Presentation. Section: Environmental Sciences, SRM University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Gaurav Saha, Sayantan Goswami, Soumi Sinha Roy, Shibayan Ganguly, Anwesha Saha, Radhika Saraf, Payel Ganguly, Ayan Chandra (2011): “Air pollution in Kolkata:Yesterday, today and tomorrow”; Proc:98th Indian Science congress: Abstract of Poster Presentation. Section: Environmental Sciences, SRM University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Soumi Sinha Roy, Anwesha Saha, Gaurav Saha, Pritam Naskar, Arindam Ghatak and Mahasweta Mitra Ghosh (2011): “Role of saline tolerant Aspergillus spp. in calcium recycling from sea urchin shell” ,Proceedings 98th Indian Science Congress: Abstract of Poster Presentation. Section: Plant Sciences, Abstract no:67, Pg no: 52; SRM University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Sneha Dutta, Sounak Kundu, Rubina Islam, Pramit Bhattacharjee, Anwesha Saha and Kasturi Sarkar (2011): “Enhancing xanthophyll extraction from marigold petals by pretreatment with cellulolytic enzymes obtained from Aspergillus niger”; Proceedings of 98th Indian Science Congress: Abstract of Poster Presentation. Section: Environmental Sciences; Abstract no: 197; Pg No: 157; SRM University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Gairik Mukherjee, Barenya Das, Surajit Nandi, Anwesha Saha, Soumi Sinha Roy, Rubina Islam and Arup Kumar Mitra (2010): “Impact of banning of old vehicles from the streets of Kolkata”; Section Environmental sciences; Proceeding of 97th Indian science congress, Oral presentation; Abstract no: 22; Pg No. 81, University of Kerala. Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Contact

Anwesha Saha
Institute of Paleobiology PAS
ul. Twarda 51/55
PL-00-818 Warsaw, POLAND
e–mail: asaha[at]twarda.pan.pl

phone: (+4822) 697 8892; room 635