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Missing the Forest for the Trees
Pandemics, biodiversity and the circle of life
#3 of the Climate Series
Speakers
Addressing biodiversity and Climate Change seems to have been pushed aside by the coronavirus outbreak. It would be wise to bring it back to the centre of the discussion because it has long been known that the drivers of zoonotic diseases like COVID 19, are changes in land use from road building, mining, agriculture and rapid urbanisation that lead to diminishing forests and a loss of biodiversity.
As was noted at the World Economic Forum recently, the world has lost over 60 pc of all wildlife in the past 50 years while the number of new infections has quadrupled in about the same time frame.
Join Bangalore’s eminent biologists and environmental scholars as they join the dots on caronavirus, biodiversity and forests loss.
In collaboration with Bengaluru Sustainability Forum
Speakers
Uma Ramakrishnan
Uma Ramakrishnan is an associate professor at NCBS interested in molecular ecology and conservation genetics. Her work involves using genetic and genomic data to make inferences about populations of endangered species, and suggest measures to avoid extinction. She also investigates the ecological and evolutionary contexts of emerging infectious disease. She is passionate about science communication and science capacity building.
Harini Nagendra
Harini Nagendra is a Professor of Sustainability at Azim Premji University, where she anchors the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability. She is the author of “Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future” (OUP, 2016) and the co-author of “Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities (Penguin, 2019).
Satyajit Mayor
Prof. Satyajit Mayor is an Indian cell biologist. He directs the National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, in Bangalore, India. With an M.Sc. in Chemistry from IIT Bombay, and Ph.D. in Life Sciences from The Rockefeller University, New York, his postdoctoral training was at Columbia University, New York. The broad aim of Prof. Mayor’s laboratory is to provide an understanding of Life at the Cell’s Edge by understanding the mechanisms behind cell membrane structure and organization, and endocytic processes in metazoan cells.
Prof. Mayor’s academic honors include, Chevalier de l’Ordre national du mérite (National Order of Merit, France), Foreign Member- US National Academy of Science, Foreign Fellow- EMBO, TWAS Prize in Biology, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Science, India. Infosys Prize in Life Sciences, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellow etc.,
Mahesh Sankaran
Mahesh Sankaran is an ecologist whose research interests lie in understanding the impacts of global climatic changes on the structure, functioning and stability of ecosystems.
