Natasha Mhatre
Natasha Mhatre | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1979 Mumbai, India |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Science |
| Thesis | The Prediction Of Field Cricket Phonotaxis In Complex Acoustic Environments (2007) |
| Doctoral advisor | Rohini Balakrishnan |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Biology |
| Institutions | University of Western Ontario |
| Website | www |
Natasha Mhatre is a researcher in Canada at Western University whose research focuses on animal communication.[1] Focusing on insect biomechanics,[2] she is an assistant professor and NSERC Canada Research Chair in invertebrate neurobiology.[3]
Education
Mhatre earned her Bachelor of Science from Mumbai University in 1999, and her Master of Science and doctorate from the Indian Institute of Science in 2002 and 2008, respectively.[4]
Research
Mhatre's work has covered insect communication and biomechanics. Some of her research has been focused on Black Widow spiders,[1] and she has been called a "Tree cricket expert".[5] Her work has had applications beyond spiders and insects to Tuvan throat singers, where she collaborated with a group to investigate how these unique sounds were produced.[6]
Mhatre holds an NSERC Canada Research Chair,[3] and was a recipient of the Marie Curie Fellowship to support her post doctoral research.
The Otomi tree cricket Oecanthus mhatreae was named after her.[7][8][9]
References
- ^ a b Yong, Ed (2019-01-09). "The World Shifts When a Black Widow Squats". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ "Courtship in the cricket world". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ a b "Western News - Western lands nine new CRCs among latest round". Western News. 2019-06-13. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ "A Multiplicity of Wi" (PDF). Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
- ^ Wu, Katherine J. (2020-12-16). "He's Too Quiet for His Mate to Hear Him. So He Makes a Megaphone". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ "Researchers solve mystery of Tuvan throat singing". phys.org. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ "New species of tree crickets from Mexico named after CES alumna Natasha Mhatre | Centre for Ecological Sciences | IISc". ces.iisc.ernet.in. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ Collins, Nancy; González, Isabel Margarita Coronado; Govaerts, Bruno Victor Alfons (2019-08-28). "Oecanthus mhatreae sp. nov. (Gryllidae: Oecanthinae): A new species of tree cricket from Mexico, with an irregular song pattern and unique chirp-like trill configuration". Journal of Orthoptera Research. 28 (2): 137–143. doi:10.3897/jor.28.33781. ISSN 1937-2426.
- ^ "Western News - Naming something to chirp about for professor". Western News. 2019-09-24. Retrieved 2021-03-09.