Faculty at School of Natural Sciences

Tanvi Deora

Tanvi Deora

Fellow

School of Natural Sciences


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Neurobiology and Biomechanics of Insect Pollination, Tactile sensing, Multisensory integration, Flight control, Sensory ecology

  • 2016, Int.Ph.D. (Neurobiology), National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India
  • 2008, B.Sc. (Biological Sciences), Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi

  •  05/23-Present, Faculty Fellow, Department of Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR
  •  2021, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  1. Bustamante,JJr, AhmedM,Deora T, FabienB, DanielTL. Abdominal movements in insect flight reshape the role of non-aerodynamic structures for flight maneuverability I: Model predictive control for flower tracking,Integrative Organismal Biology, 2022;, obac039,https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obac039
  2. Deora T, Ahmed MA, Brunton BW, Daniel TL. Learning to feed in the dark: how light level influences feeding in the hawkmothManduca sexta.Biology Letters.2021 Sep;17(9):20210320.
  3. Deora T, Ahmed MA, Daniel TL, Brunton BW. Tactile active sensing in an insect plant pollinator.Journal ofExperimental Biology. 2021 Feb 15;224(4):jeb239442.
  4. Deora T, Sane SP. Wings and halteres act as coupled dual oscillators in flies.eLife. 2021 Nov 16;10.7554/eLife.53824.
  5. Pratt B,Deora T, Mohren T, Daniel T. Neural evidence supports a dual sensory-motor role for insect wings.Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2017 Sep 13;284(1862):20170969.
  6. Deora T, Singh AK, Sane SP. Biomechanical basis of wing and haltere coordination in flies.Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences. 2015 Feb 3;112(5):1481-6.
  7. Parween R, Pratap R,Deora T, Sane SP. Modeling strain sensing by the gyroscopic halteres, in the dipteran soldier fly, Hermetia illucens.Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines. 2014 Jul 3;42(3):371-85.

  1. Deora T. Webless spiders reverse bungee jump to catch prey.Proceedings of the National Academy ofSciences. 2022 Oct 11;119(41):e2214006119.(A commentary article)
  2. Aiello BR, Stanchak KE, Weber AI, Deora T, Sponberg S, Brunton BW. Spatial distribution of campaniform sensilla mechanosensors on wings: Form, function, and phylogeny.Current Opinion in Insect Science. 2021 Jun24.
  3. Deora T, Gundiah N, Sane SP. Mechanics of the thorax in flies.Journal of Experimental Biology. 2017 Apr 15;220(8):1382-95.

  • 2023, Invited speaker for Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines conference in Kobe, Japan, June 6-9, 2023 symposium Beyond Aerodynamics – the Role of Mechanics, Materials, and Morphing in Flight.
  • 2023, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research on Tactile sensing and learning in insect feeding and plant pollination.
  • 2023, Invited speaker for Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology 2023 symposium The role of mechanosensation in robust movement (declined due to unavailable visa post pandemic).
  • 2022, on Mechanics and neural control of movement in natural contexts at
    • Center for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
    • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
  • 2022, on the Biomechanics and mechanosensory feedback in insect feeding and flight control at
    • Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
    • Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
    • National Center for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore
    • Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Kolkata
  • 2018, Keynote speaker at the Nature Inspired Flight Technologies and Ideas, SOAR meeting in Seattle, Washington on the Role of touch in plant-insect pollinator interactions.
  • 2018, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune on Insect Flight: from Neural Control to Ecological Implications.
  • 2015, Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES) at India Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India organized by the Ecology Students’ Society, CES, IISc, Bangalore on The Role of Passive mechanics in coordinating wing and haltere motion in flies.