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Joyshree works on plant–insect interactions, focusing on chemical communications between the organisms, as well as the evolution of their mutualism. She recently finished her PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. During this time, she spent 6 months every year in the lowland tropical wet evergreen forests of the Western Ghats, investigating the mysteries of the ant-plant Humboldtia brunonis. She is presently a Post Doc at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. Her work involves understanding the effect of climate change on plant–insect interactions in the high altitude alpine grasslands in the Eastern Himalayas. In her spare time, she likes to write popular sciences articles, which have been published in The Hindu.