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Field of research : Plant–animal–microbe interactions; chemical and visual ecology; ecosystem services
Address: Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
E-mail: renee[at]iisc.ac.in
Website: https://reneeborgeslab.in/
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Renee Borges is a graduate and post-graduate from the University of Bombay where she studied zoology, microbiology, and animal physiology. She is a PhD from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, and studied the foraging ecology of the Indian giant squirrel in relation to phytochemistry of Western Ghat forests in India for her doctoral degree. She was adjunct faculty at the Wildlife Institute of India at Dehradun, and also Deputy Director of Research at the Bombay Natural History Society.
Renee Borges is currently a Professor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. Her lab studies the mechanisms and the consequences of mutualism and parasitism in iconic symbiotic model systems such as fig and fig interactions, ant and ant-plant interactions and in fungus-farming termites. She also collaborates with physicists to understand soil-based architecture by animals such as termites, potter wasps and mud dauber wasps. She has investigated chemical and visual mimicry in spiders and the visual ecology of nocturnal bees.
Renee Borges is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biosciences and is on the Editorial Board of several journals including the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. She is a JC Bose National Fellow. She is Secretary of the Indian Academy of Sciences, based in Bangalore.