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2014-KSK-memorial-KV-KSK-snail-tifr-story_RESEARCH-PROCESS.mp4
K S Krishnan's work with snails at TIFR - K VijayRaghavan
2014-KSK-memorial-Balaram-KSK-brain-blender_RESEARCH-PROCESS.mp4
Working with K S Krishnan - P Balaram
2012-Reminiscing_Sowdhamini-paper-publishing_RESEARCH-PROCESS.mp4
Publishing: the drought before the deluge - R. Sowdhamini
2012-Reminiscing_Gaiti-getting-anything_RESEARCH-PROCESS.mp4
The TIFR / NCBS advantage - Gaiti Hasan
2012-Genes-to-olfaction_OS_research_view_RESEARCH-PROCESS.mp4
Thoughts on research - Obaid Siddiqi
2016-OS-Discussion_Nanjundiah-OS-maths-need_RESEARCH-AREAS.mp4
On Obaid Siddiqi: Reaching out to mathematicians - Vidyanand Nanjundiah
2012-Genes-to-olfaction_Shobhona-student-parasite-switch_RESEARCH-AREAS.mp4
Being a student at TIFR - Shobhona Sharma
2012-Genes-to-olfaction_Babu-phy-bio_RESEARCH-AREAS.mp4
The switch from physics to biology - P Babu
2014-KSK-memorial-Karthik-KSK-tinkering-at-home_RESEARCH-TOOLS.mp4
Growing up with K S Krishnan - Karthik Krishnan
2014-KSK-memorial-Balaram-KSK-inebriometer_RESEARCH-TOOLS.mp4
A student as mentor: On K S Krishnan - P Balaram
2014-KSK-memorial-Anand-KSK-pigeons-resistor_RESEARCH-TOOLS.mp4
Growing up with K S Krishnan - Anand Krishnan
2012-Reminiscing_Shona-Jitu-Buying_eqpt_RESEARCH-TOOLS.mp4
Start-up days: Buying a microscope - Sumantra Chattarji
2000-BBC_doc_KSK-apparatus_RESEARCH-TOOLS
The Inebriometer - K S Krishnan
2016-OS-Discussion_Imrana-OS-basic-applied_RESEARCH-TOGGLE.mp4
On Obaid Siddiqi: Bridging basic and applied research - Imrana Qadeer
2012_TIFR_HB_Doc-JRD-Nehru-1962-RESEARCH-TOGGLE.ts
Speeches by JRD Tata and Jawaharlal Nehru at the 1962 inauguration of the new TIFR building - 0
Obaid_and_Seymour_Benzer_early_70s_Pasadena_CA.JPG
Obaid Siddiqi (left) and Seymour Benzer at Pasadena, CA, in the early 1970s. The external collaborations of many faculty members were critical in identity-building for the molecular biology unit. During Siddiqi’s sabbatical at Caltech, Siddiqi…
2007 Sowdhamini - Paper Submission - Envelope Note
R Sowdhamini's back of the envelope notes from September 2007, with a snapshot of academic papers (left column) and collaborative projects with other faculty members (right column) in process at the time.
1998 Mayor - GPI anchored protein paper - Nature.jpg
1998 work by Satyajit Mayor and Rajat Varma, showing the organization of proteins at the cell surface, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v394/n6695/full/394798a0.html
2002 Shona - Amygdala - J Neuroscience.jpg
The 2002 work of Sumantra Chattarji's group: Looking at the role of amygdala in chronic stress, http://www.jneurosci.org/content/22/15/6810.full
Panicker - endogenous fluoroscence - stem cell reports.jpg
The 2014 work of Mitradas Panicker's group: A Method to Identify and Isolate Pluripotent Human Stem Cells Using Fluorescence. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213671114001453
2011 planaria - InStem - dasaradhi.jpg
Image of a two headed planarian. The organism is known for its remarkable ability to regenerate itself, and it is used as a model organism at NCBS.
Vemula - CSH - Lab notebook.JPG
On keeping lab notes: From the walls of Praveen Vemula's office and lab at NCBS
TIFR Champa Lab - Fly.JPG
Drosophila recipes and tubes are a common sight in most fly labs and faculty offices across TIFR and NCBS. This is at Champakali Ayyub's office in TIFR. Ayyub started as an assistant at TIFR, went on to do a PhD, and is now a scientific officer at…
Swetha.JPG
Swetha Bhashyam, an MSc Wildlife student, studying the winter feeding ecology of the stump-tailed macaque in the Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam. (2015-16)
OS Lab - Hand drawn graphs.JPG
Obaid Siddiqi avoided computer-generated graphs as far as possible and expected his students to do the same. He would force them to draw curves by hand to get a feel of the trend in a particular experiment.
Madhu lab notebook.JPG
The lab notebook of KS Madhumala, a post doctoral researcher at NCBS. Madhumala was a student of Veronica Rodrigues and feels she may have been taken on as a research fellow before her PhD at NCBS partly because of how she kept notes in her book.
2014_J-Neurogenetics_KSK_Obit_1_3.pdf
In this obituary for KS Krishnan, who passed away in 2014, his former students elegantly describe his research techniques and his ability to improvise and innovate.
2014_J-Neurogenetics_KSK_Obit_1_2.pdf
In this obituary for KS Krishnan, who passed away in 2014, his former students elegantly describe his research techniques and his ability to improvise and innovate.
2014_J-Neurogenetics_KSK_Obit_1_1.pdf
In this obituary for KS Krishnan, who passed away in 2014, his former students elegantly describe his research techniques and his ability to improvise and innovate.
2000s Process_Source-RDO_Ecology_Squirrel.pdf
The campus has become an outdoor test site for research over the last 15 years, bringing with it an understanding of and connection to the natural world.
2000s Process_Source-RDO_Ecology_Bee_1.pdf
Axel Brockmann's equipment on NCBS campus for his research on honeybees and the mechanism of behaviour. The campus has become an outdoor test site for research over the last 15 years.
2000s process - filling up tip boxes.jpg
Ishier Raote, an NCBS student in the early 2000s, filling up tips prior to an experiment. Tips are plastic disposable tips for micropippettes, a critical daily use instrument for any experiment that needs tiny volumes pippetted. In the early days,…
2000 vivarium 1 at ncbs.jpg
The animal houses of NCBS: The completed vivarium in 2000.
1998 animal house at NCBS.jpg
The animal houses of NCBS: The temporary one at NCBS soon after the completion of the main campus. c 1998.
1995 animal house at TIFR-IISc.tif
The animal houses of NCBS: The first one at the TIFR Centre, IISc, c 1996.
1993-06-26 VR to Champa - discipline email.tif
Veronica Rodrigues email to Champakali Ayyub in 1993. Rodrigues stresses the need to publish, saying that "It is good discipline to complete a job and let the world see it completed."
1984 IAS Jubilee Speech - Perception of Chemicals R1 - 1.tif
Notes from Obaid Siddiqi's 1984 speech on 'Perception of Chemicals', at the Indian Academy of Sciences. This is the revised version of the speech text shown in the previous images, and is perhaps indicative of the thought process behind communicating…
1984 IAS Jubilee Speech - Perception of Chemicals R0 - 2.tif
Notes from Obaid Siddiqi's 1984 speech on 'Perception of Chemicals', at the Indian Academy of Sciences. This is the first draft of the speech text. A revised version is shown in the last image, and is perhaps indicative of the thought process behind…
1984 IAS Jubilee Speech - Perception of Chemicals R0 - 1.tif
Notes from Obaid Siddiqi's 1984 speech on 'Perception of Chemicals', at the Indian Academy of Sciences. This is the first draft of the speech text. A revised version is shown in the last image, and is perhaps indicative of the thought process behind…
1983-84 TIFR Report - electron micrograph image_p51 - RN Singh.tif
Electron micrograph showing cross section of one of the 10 pairs of sensory organs in the pharynx of Drosphila larva. The slicing work was carried out by Kusum Singh, who worked on a pro-bono basis with her husband, RN Singh.
1981 Ajith macaque fieldwork braille - 5a.jpg
Ajith Kumar's field notes from 1982-83, written on Braille paper (sourced from a church in the US, since resources were limited, and it was good non-blotting paper). The notes are for studies on how four species of tree living mammals co-exist and…
1970s TIFR MBU Veronica - Fly Maze.jpg
Veronica Rodrigues taking measurements with her in-house fly maze design. She and other researchers worked with the TIFR glass blowing facility to make Y-shaped tubes, a simple yet powerful device to test olfactory response in Drosophila, c 1979.
1970s Profile - Bhavsar.jpg
PN Bhavsar was one of the first scientific officers to join the molecular biology unit at TIFR in the 1960s. Bhavsar was witness to a variety of shifts in the research areas, and continued to study up to a Masters degree in his microbial genetics…
2015 wildlife lakshwadeep work.jpg
Aditi Pophale at work in the Lakshadweep Archipelago in 2015. The MSc Wildlife program started in 2003 with an aim of teaching and conducting "evidence-based conservation" in India. Soon after, NCBS hired faculty in the ecology and evolution areas of…
2014-15 Dissertation Filed sites all.jpg
Field sites across India for the MSc Wildlife program. The program started in 2003 with an aim of teaching and conducting "evidence-based conservation" in India. Soon after, NCBS hired faculty in the ecology and evolution areas of research.
2001 OS to DRDO Proposal - 2.tif
Obaid Siddiqi's proposal to the DRDO for a project on "molecular biology of chemical senses in insects". It was a time when military around the world was taking interest in such research. DARPA, the US military research wing, approached universities…
2001 OS to DRDO Proposal - 1.tif
Obaid Siddiqi's proposal to the DRDO for a project on "molecular biology of chemical senses in insects". It was a time when military around the world was taking interest in such research. DARPA, the US military research wing, approached universities…
2000 July - STC Minutes - Research Area Restructure.tif
Meeting minutes from the NCBS Steering Committee to look at a restructuring of research areas at NCBS. The areas have always revolved around the people at the Centre at a given time. July 2000.
2000 July - STC Minutes - Physics in Biology.tif
Meeting minutes from the NCBS Steering Committee to look at the introduction of physics in biology. July 2000.
1999 MoU 1999 - Wildlife program_8.pdf
Memorandum of Understanding between Centre for Wildlife Studies, National Institute of Advanced Studies and NCBS, to start an MSc programme in Wildlife Biology. December 1999. The programme kicked off in 2003.