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1990s Gaiti Hasan Lab group photo.jpg
Gaiti Hasan, one of the founding faculty members of NCBS, and her group in the mid 1990s, when the Centre was at the TIFR Centre, IISc.
1980s 1990s - Inebriometer - left image with woman in blue.tif
In the late 1980s, KS Krishnan, a faculty member at TIFR, developed an ingenious inebriometer in order to better understand response to anesthetics. Here, a student is working on the inebriometer, which is essentially a fractionation system for…
1976 TIFR application VR.jpg
The registration sheet for Veronica Rodrigues at TIFR, filled at the time she was a research scholar at the institute.
1976 Mahabaleshwar - Shobhona Satpal.pdf
Some images from gatherings at the Mahabaleshwar Seminars. The seminars have been held continuously since the first ones in 1975, offering a space for students and teachers from across the world to learn from each other. In the last image, Shobhona…
1976 Mahabaleshwar - Shobhona Satpal.pdf
Some images from gatherings at the Mahabaleshwar Seminars. The seminars have been held continuously since the first ones in 1975, offering a space for students and teachers from across the world to learn from each other. In the last image, Shobhona…
1976 Mahabaleshwar - Shobhona Satpal.pdf
Some images from gatherings at the Mahabaleshwar Seminars. The seminars have been held continuously since the first ones in 1975, offering a space for students and teachers from across the world to learn from each other. In the last image, Shobhona…
1976 Mahabaleshwar - Shobhona Satpal.pdf
Some images from gatherings at the Mahabaleshwar Seminars. The seminars have been held continuously since the first ones in 1975, offering a space for students and teachers from across the world to learn from each other. In the last image, Shobhona…
1975 VR to OS PhD request letter.jpg
After reading a paper by Vijay Sarathy and Obaid Siddiqi on bacterial recombination, Veronica Rodrigues, who was studying in Dublin, Ireland, sends a letter to Obaid Siddiqi expressing her interest in joining for a PhD. She would later build simple…
TIFR Penthouse - 3.JPG
In the main academic block at TIFR, near the Director's office, is a room called the Penthouse. It used to be the telephone exchange. Today, it is the records room. Records are preserved, but it takes institutional memory to track them down,…
TIFR Penthouse - 2.JPG
In the main academic block at TIFR, near the Director's office, is a room called the Penthouse. It used to be the telephone exchange. Today, it is the records room. Records are preserved, but it takes institutional memory to track them down,…
Sudhir Krishna alumni.JPG
Sudhir Krishna, a senior faculty member at NCBS, and his wall of alumni from his lab over the last two decades.
Original Greenery where the Southern Laboratory now stands.jpg
NCBS has been rather guarded about its landscape. The green patch seen in this image was always planned for a Phase 2 expansion of the campus. But when the Southern Lab Complex came up, the architects and engineers were allowed to only cut one line…
NCBS Library - 2000.tif
The NCBS Library used to be in what is today the Simons Centre / theory group. The Library then moved to a new larger space in the Southern Lab Complex in 2012. As it grows, NCBS relies on this flexibility to shuffle spaces and accommodate new…
NCBS lab space 2000 1.tif
When the researchers moved from the TIFR Centre to the NCBS campus in 1998, they moved into individual labs like this one (Jayant Udgaonkar's group). The new Southern Lab Complex favours an open lab structure, with one long hall, not unlike a scaled…
2016 Transport Ledger.JPG
NCBS has a transportation section that takes care of shuttle services to IISc and the faculty and student residences off campus. The reception also arranges taxi services, with tens of thousands of trip entries recorded over the last few years.
2016 Canteen Menu - 2.JPG
Food services at NCBS started with a single stove in the mid 1990s. Today, NCBS has about half a dozen food outlets on campus, with the main canteen having a roster of over 500 dishes. Good food is one of the reasons students have cited for coming to…
2016 Canteen Menu - 1.JPG
Food services at NCBS started with a single stove in the mid 1990s. Today, NCBS has about half a dozen food outlets on campus, with the main canteen having a roster of over 500 dishes. Good food is one of the reasons students have cited for coming to…
2003 Oct Pyne to Review - NCBS synopsis and outlook - 1.jpg
Report from the administrative and finance head of NCBS to an NCBS external review committee, just after its 10-year anniversary. The report wrestles with the idea of a nimble administration as the institution grows.
2003 Oct KV to Review - NCBS synopsis and outlook - 4.jpg
A four page report in 2003 from the Director NCBS to an NCBS external review committee, just after its 10-year anniversary. It includes a list of points that the Centre felt it should attend to within the year at the time, including a way to connect…
2003 Oct KV to Review - NCBS synopsis and outlook - 3.jpg
A four page report in 2003 from the Director NCBS to an NCBS external review committee, just after its 10-year anniversary. It includes a list of points that the Centre felt it should attend to within the year at the time, including a way to connect…
2003 Oct KV to Review - NCBS synopsis and outlook - 2.jpg
A four page report in 2003 from the Director NCBS to an NCBS external review committee, just after its 10-year anniversary. It includes a list of points that the Centre felt it should attend to within the year at the time, including a way to connect…
2003 Oct KV to Review - NCBS synopsis and outlook - 1.jpg
A four page report in 2003 from the Director NCBS to an NCBS external review committee, just after its 10-year anniversary. It includes a list of points that the Centre felt it should attend to within the year at the time, including a way to connect…
2003 Oct JU to Review - NCBS synopsis and outlook - 4.jpg
A four page report in 2003 from the Dean, NCBS Faculty, as part of the material for an external review of NCBS, just after its 10-year anniversary.
2003 Oct JU to Review - NCBS synopsis and outlook - 3.jpg
A four page report in 2003 from the Dean, NCBS Faculty, as part of the material for an external review of NCBS, just after its 10-year anniversary.
2003 Oct JU to Review - NCBS synopsis and outlook - 2.jpg
A four page report in 2003 from the Dean, NCBS Faculty, as part of the material for an external review of NCBS, just after its 10-year anniversary.
2003 Oct JU to Review - NCBS synopsis and outlook - 1.jpg
A four page report in 2003 from the Dean, NCBS Faculty, as part of the material for an external review of NCBS, just after its 10-year anniversary.
2003 June KV to Faculty - NCBS review notice - 2.jpg
Around its 10-year anniversary, NCBS conducted an external review of the Centre, taking into consideration the way it was going to scale. This is the mail that K VijayRaghavan, then director of NCBS, sent out to the faculty to inform them of the…
2003 June KV to Faculty - NCBS review notice - 1.jpg
Around its 10-year anniversary, NCBS conducted an external review of the Centre, taking into consideration the way it was going to scale. This is the mail that K VijayRaghavan, then director of NCBS, sent out to the faculty to inform them of the…
1999 Mar - Council Meeting Minutes - NCBS 35-83 CR.pdf
The 1990 NCBS proposal summarizes the total cost of the new Centre to be 18 crores. By 1996, that figure went up to 33 crores, and then to 35.83 crores in 1999.
1996 OS Note on Acad and Admin of NCBS - 6.tif
Five years after the founding of NCBS, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a note on the academic and administrative structure of the Centre. He made the case for giving it more structure through management boards and advisory committees, instead of decisions…
1996 OS Note on Acad and Admin of NCBS - 5.tif
Five years after the founding of NCBS, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a note on the academic and administrative structure of the Centre. He made the case for giving it more structure through management boards and advisory committees, instead of decisions…
1996 OS Note on Acad and Admin of NCBS - 4.tif
Five years after the founding of NCBS, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a note on the academic and administrative structure of the Centre. He made the case for giving it more structure through management boards and advisory committees, instead of decisions…
1996 OS Note on Acad and Admin of NCBS - 3.tif
Five years after the founding of NCBS, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a note on the academic and administrative structure of the Centre. He made the case for giving it more structure through management boards and advisory committees, instead of decisions…
1996 OS Note on Acad and Admin of NCBS - 2.tif
Five years after the founding of NCBS, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a note on the academic and administrative structure of the Centre. He made the case for giving it more structure through management boards and advisory committees, instead of decisions…
1996 OS Note on Acad and Admin of NCBS - 1.tif
Five years after the founding of NCBS, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a note on the academic and administrative structure of the Centre. He made the case for giving it more structure through management boards and advisory committees, instead of decisions…
1996 NCBS to TIFR - Project Revision - 33 CR.tif
The 1990 NCBS proposal summarizes the total cost of the new Centre to be 18 crores. By 1996, that figure went up to 33 crores, and then to 35.83 crores in 1999.
1990 NCBS Proposal - Financial outlay.pdf
The 1990 NCBS proposal summarizes the total cost of the new Centre to be 18 crores. By 1996, that estimate almost doubled to 33 crores.
1974 Oct 1 D-2004-01860 OS to TIFR 5-yr-plan neurobiology.tif
Responding to a request by the Dean of the Physics Faculty (Molecular Biology was in the Physics faculty), Obaid Siddiqi states a need for 10 lakhs to pursue the group's plans to intensify research in neurobiology. The note is written soon after his…
1974 D-2004-01232 (4- 1-11) MBU composition note.tif
The composition of the molecular biology unit at TIFR in 1974. After 12 years of operation, the unit had eight faculty members, eight students and 16 supporting staff.
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1_5.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1_4.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1_3.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1_2.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1_1.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
2012 TIFR 50 - OS with Mani.JPG
Mani Ramaswami (right), who received one of the first offers from NCBS and who continues to interact with the Centre, with Obaid Siddiqi, on the occasion of the 50th year of molecular biology at TIFR
2012 MMJ with OS.JPG
MM Johri (left), who joined the TIFR molecular biology unit in the early 1970s, with Obaid Siddiqi on the occasion of the 50th year of the department in 2012.
2001 Jan - STC Minutes - Janaki Nair appointment.tif
The appointment of Janaki Nair in 2001 started an engagement beyond the sciences at NCBS. It would lead to the hiring of Indira Chowdhury to conduct an extensive oral history interview with Obaid Siddiqi, and then a longer engagement with the setting…
1997 Mar V Singh to Vijay - Director offer.tif
K VijayRaghavan takes over from Obaid Siddiqi as the director of NCBS in 1997.
1997 Jan NCBS Director Position - OS to Vijay hand-over.tif
K VijayRaghavan takes over from Obaid Siddiqi as the director of NCBS in 1997.
1995 NCBS at IISc days - 3.tif
Satyajit Mayor's group with visiting scientists at the TIFR Centre (IISc) canteen, c 1995