ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY

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	Dr. P. Thiruchenthil Nathan
Date of Birth	16/02/1972
Gender	Male
Department	Directorate of Distance Education
Qualification	M.Sc (Zoo)., M.Sc. (Psy)., M. Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D.,
Designation	Lecturer in Zoology
Address	AS2/Q1, Second Floor, Thiruveesar appartments, Subramaniyapuram 10^th street, Karaikudi
Pin code	630 003
Phone	04562- 225569
Email	nathan22@rediffmail.com
Website
Fax	04565 - 225202

University Studied UG and PG :

S.No	Degree	University	Year of Study
1	B.Sc(Zoo)	Madurai Kamaraj	1989-92
2	M.Sc (Zoo)	Manonmanium Sundaranar	1992-94
3	B.Ed (Bio)	Manonmanium Sundaranar	1994-95
4	M. Phil (Zoo)	Manonmanium Sundaranar	1995-96
5	M.Ed	Annamalai	1996-97
6	Ph.D	Manonmanium Sundaranar	1997-2001
7	SLET (Zoo)	Bharathidasan	1997

University Where Research done :

Name of the University	Year of Study	Area of Specialization
Manonmanium Sundaranar Madurai Kamaraj	1997-2001 2002- 2007	Animal Behaviour Animal Behaviour

PG Specialization (subjects) :

1.Entomology	2.Aquaculture
3.Animal Behaviour	4.

Total Teaching Experience :

S.No	Institution	Position	Period
			From	To
1	St.John’s College	Guest Lectureer	1998 2000
2	MK University	Teaching assistant	2002 2007
2	MK University	Academic Coordinator	2008

Total Research Experience (No. of Years):

Current Research Field :

1. Animal Behaviour	2. Ecology
3. Molecular ecology	4.

Projects done Minor/Major:

S.No	Title	Funding Agency	Year	Status (Ongoing/ Completed)
1	Acoustic monitoring of bats and their role in control of agricultural pest	DST	2004-2007	Completed

Seminar/Workshops Attended :

(a) National

S.No	Title	Institution and Event Name	Period
1 2	Work shop on Post-graduate skill development course in animal cell culture Workshop on Methods of industrial statistics	Biocentre of Oncophyta, Madurai Department of Applied mathematics, MK University	10-14^th October 2005 18^th February 2005
3.	Annual conference of Ethological society of India	University of Agricultural sciences, Bangalore	April 10-12 2007
4.	Aqua-terr annual conference	SBS, MK University, Madurai	4^th March 2006
5.	Aqua-terr annual conference	SBS, MK University, Madurai	5^th March 2005
6.	2^nd National conference of Western Ghats forum	Salimali Centre for ornithology, Coimbatore	1-2 December 2005

(b) International

S.No	Title	Institution and Event Name	Period
1	First Asian conference of association of tropical ecology	Asian Cahapter, Mahabalipuram	6-8 March 2007
2	ASAB annual conference	University of Exeter, Cornel, UK	28-30 March 2007

Papers Presented :

(a) National

S.No	Title	Institution and Event Name	Period
1	Bat pollination syndromes in few species of bats	Annual conference of Ethological society of India, Bangalore	10-12 April 2007
2	Foraging and pollination strategies of Indian short nosed fruit bat	Aqua-terr annual symbosium, Madurai	4^th March 2006
3.	Echolocation sounds of painted bat Kreviola picta	Aqua-terr annual symbosium, Madurai	4^th March 2006
4.	Reproductive strategies of solitary adult males in Cynopterus sphinx	Aqua-terr annual symbosium, Madurai	5^th March 2005
5.	Bat pollination in southern western ghats	2^nd National conference of Western ghats forum	1-2 December 2005

(b) International

S.No	Title	Institution and Event Name	Period
1	Pollination of cauliflorous and flagelliflorous plants	First Asian conference of tropical biology, Mahabaliburam	6-8^th March 2007
2.	Bat foraging strategies and social interactions in flowering trees	ASAB annual conference, University of Exeter, UK	28-30 March 2007

Papers Published

(a) National

S.No	Paper Title	Name of Journal, Volume No and Page	Year Publication
1	K. Sripathi, H. Raghuram, P.T. Nathan Echoloacation sounds of Kerivoula picta.	Current Science, 91(9) 1145-47	2006
2	H. Raghuram, C. Balaji, P.T. Nathan Sex ratio, population structure and roost fidelity in a free ranging colony of Indian false vampire bat, Megaderma lyra,	Current science, 91(7)	2006
3	Nathan,P.T, . H. Raghuram, V. Elangovan, T. Karauppudurai and G. Marimuthu Bat pollination in kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra,	Current science, 88(10)	2005

(a) International

S.No	Paper Title	Name of Journal, Volume No and Page	Year Publication
1	Gopukumar, N., T. Karuppudurai, P.T. Nathan, K. Sripathi and J. Balasingh Solitary adult males in a polygynous-mating bat (Cynopterus sphinx): A forced option or strategy?	Journal of Mammalogy 86(2): 281-86	2005
2	Nathan, P.T., H. Raghuram, T. Karuppudurai and G. Marimuthu Bat foraging and pollination in Bassia latifolia,	ACTA chiropterologica, in press	2009

Books Published / Course material written

S.No	Title	Publisher	Year
1	Evolutioanary dynamics of the short-nosed fruit bat, Cynopterus sphinx (Pteropodidae): Inference from the spatial scale of genetic and phenotypic differentiation	Oxford university press	2006

Membership in Professional Bodies

S.No	Name of the institution and place	Capacity / Status
1 2 3 4	Ethological society of India Indian society of chronobiolgy Indian Science Congress Indian society of Biocontrol	Life member Life member Life member Life member

Awards/Rewards/Fellowship/any other Recognition

S.No	Name of the Award/ Fellowship	Institution awarding the Honor	Year
1 2	IISC-DBT-Post doctoral fellowship DST-Young scientist	Indian Institute of science Department of Science & Technology	2002-2004 2004-2007