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Divya Ramesh

Research fellow

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Universität Konstanz
Fachbereich Biologie
D-78457 Konstanz, Germany

Tel: +49-7531-88-3052
Fax: +49-7531-88-3894

room: M 1126

email: divya.ramesh@uni-konstanz.de

web: https://neuro.uni-konstanz.de

Curriculum vitae

2007-2010: Bachelor’s in advanced Zoology and Biotechnology, First Class with Distinction, Stella Maris College, University of Madras, Chennai, India
2010-2012: Masters in Biochemistry, First Class with Distinction, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India
2012-2019: PhD in Biology, National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, India
2019: Bridging Post-doctoral Fellow at NCBS, India
2019-present : Research Associate at AG Kleineidam, University of Konstanz, Germany

Current research

Establishing quantitative targeted mass spectrometry of neuroactive amines in insect brains.
Studying the effect of conspecifics on individual behavior. I will be focusing on ants, honey bees and bumblebees in the context of aggression and thermoregulation.

Journal publications
Chatterjee A, Bais D, Brockmann A and Ramesh D (2021) Search Behavior of Individual Foragers Involves Neurotransmitter Systems Characteristic for Social Scouting. Front. Insect Sci. 1:664978 doi: 10.3389/finsc.2021.664978

Parkhitko, A., Ramesh, D., Wang, L., Leshchiner, D., Filine, E., Binari, R., Olsen, A., Asara, J., Cracan, V., Rabinowitz, J., Brockmann, A., & Perrimon, N. (2020) Downregulation of the tyrosine degradation pathway extends Drosophila lifespan. eLife 2020;9:e58053 doi: 10.7554/eLife.58053

Ramesh, D., & Brockmann, A. (2018). Mass Spectrometric Quantification of Arousal Associated Neurochemical Changes in Single Honey Bee Brains and Brain Regions. ACS Chemical Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.8b00254

Sujkowski, A., Ramesh, D., Brockmann, A., & Wessells, R. (2017). Octopamine Drives Endurance Exercise Adaptations in Drosophila. Cell Reports, 21(7): 1809–1823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.10.065

Sturm, S., Ramesh, D., Brockmann, A., Neupert, S., & Predel, R. (2016). Agatoxin-like peptides in the neuroendocrine system of the honey bee and other insects. Journal of Proteomics, 132: 77–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprot.2015.11.021

Cobb, T., Sujkowski, A., Morton, C., Ramesh, D., & Wessells, R. (2020). Variation in mobility and exercise adaptations between Drosophila species. Journal of  Comparative Physiology A, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-020-01421-x

Conferences
01/2018 Poster at the Annual Talks at NCBS “Identifying candidate neuromodulators of honey bee behavior using single brain mass spectrometry” (Divya Ramesh and Axel Brockmann)

06/2017 Poster at the Gordon Research Conference meeting on “Modulation of Neural Circuits and Behavior” “Mass Spectrometry of Single Brain Neuromodulator Titers reflect Behavioral States of Foraging Honey bees” (Divya Ramesh and Axel Brockmann)

02/2017 Oral presentation at Tangled Bank (Ecology and Evolution symposium) at NCBS “Understanding diurnal variations in neuromodulator titers in A. mellifera using Mass Spectrometry” (Divya Ramesh and Axel Brockmann)

01/2016 Poster at the Annual Talks at NCBS “Identifying candidate neuromodulators of honey bee behavior using single brain mass spectrometry” (Divya Ramesh, Ebi George, Axel Brockmann)

12/2015 Invited speaker at the International symposium on “Neuropeptides and Neurotransmitters: Role in Physiology and Pathophysiology” at Bhubaneshwar, India “Identifying candidate neuromodulators of honey bee behavior using single brain mass spectrometry” (Divya Ramesh, Ebi George, Axel Brockmann)

01/2015 Poster at the Annual Talks at NCBS “Honey bee brain states: Correlating single brain mass spectrometry and individual behavioral differences” (Divya Ramesh, Ebi George, Axel Brockmann)