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1999 MoU 1999 - Wildlife program_7.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.
1999 MoU 1999 - Wildlife program_6.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.
1999 MoU 1999 - Wildlife program_5.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.
1999 MoU 1999 - Wildlife program_4.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.
1999 MoU 1999 - Wildlife program_3.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.
1999 MoU 1999 - Wildlife program_2.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.
1999 MoU 1999 - Wildlife program_1.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.
1997 TIFR Porter Committee Report - OS Notes - 2.tif
In 1997, TIFR had an external review of its work. This Porter Committee recommended that the researchers at TIFR and NCBS should pursue theoretical biology. Also seen are Obaid Siddiqi's handwritten annotations.
1997 TIFR Porter Committee Report - OS Notes - 1.tif
In 1997, TIFR had an external review of its work. This Porter Committee noted that placing molecular biology in the physics and chemical physics group is historic "and somewhat demeaning" to the field. Also seen are Obaid Siddiqi's handwritten…
1994-1995 NCBS Annual Report - Research Structure.tif
The research structure at NCBS in February 1995
1992 Sep - STC Minutes - NCBS Areas - 5.jpg
In late 1992, the faculty got together to evaluate the future areas of research at NCBS, and build a research programme across all scales of biology. The sketch is drawn by Obaid Siddiqi, with input from all the faculty members, as seen in the…
1992 Sep - STC Minutes - NCBS Areas - 4.jpg
In late 1992, the faculty got together to evaluate the future areas of research at NCBS, and build a research programme across all scales of biology. The sketch is drawn by Obaid Siddiqi, with input from all the faculty members, as seen in the…
1992 Sep - STC Minutes - NCBS Areas - 3.jpg
In late 1992, the faculty got together to evaluate the future areas of research at NCBS, and build a research programme across all scales of biology. The sketch is drawn by Obaid Siddiqi, with input from all the faculty members, as seen in the…
1992 Sep - STC Minutes - NCBS Areas - 2.jpg
In late 1992, the faculty got together to evaluate the future areas of research at NCBS, and build a research programme across all scales of biology. The sketch is drawn by Obaid Siddiqi, with input from all the faculty members, as seen in the…
1992 Sep - STC Minutes - NCBS Areas - 1.jpg
In late 1992, the faculty got together to evaluate the future areas of research at NCBS, and build a research programme across all scales of biology. The sketch is drawn by Obaid Siddiqi, with input from all the faculty members, as seen in the…
1992 Sep - STC Minutes - NCBS Area Dwg - 6.jpg
In late 1992, the faculty got together to evaluate the future areas of research at NCBS, and build a research programme across all scales of biology. The sketch is drawn by Obaid Siddiqi, with input from all the faculty members, as seen in the…
1990 NCBS Proposal – Objectives_2.pdf
The 1990 version of the NCBS proposal, laying out the research objectives of the institute
1990 NCBS Proposal – Objectives_1.pdf
The 1990 version of the NCBS proposal, laying out the research objectives of the institute
1990 Jul 5 D-2004-01236 - 14 Gotz to Vijay OS excellent.tif
In a July 1990 letter, KG Gotz of the Max Planck Institute apologises for using "excellent" in his recommendation for an Obaid Siddiqi project, and acknowledges the international reputation of the senior Drosophila researchers of the TIFR molecular…
1975 neuroBio course - TIFR - group pic.jpg
Participants at a neurobiology course at TIFR in 1975, including KS Krishnan (bottom row, right), RN Singh (top row, fourth from right), P Babu (middle row, left) and John Nicholls (middle row, second from left).
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 Rs. 10 lakhs to pursue the group's plans to intensify research in neurobiology. The note is written soon after…
1972 Nov 28 D-2004-01230-107(1 - 2) MR Das to MGK Virus work letter.pdf
Feedback for the work of MR Das, a faculty member at TIFR's Molecular Biology Unit in the 1970s, on his breast cancer research
1971_Benzer_JAMA_Gene_to_behavior_1.pdf
An extract from Seymour Benzer's 1971 essay on going "From the Gene to Behavior", published in the Journal of the American Medical Association
1970s CSHL Neurobio course - group photo.jpg
Some of the members of the neurobiology community in the 1970s, at Cold Spring Harbour Labs.
1969 Benzer to OS - Neurobiology shift.tif
Seymour Benzer's letter to Obaid Siddiqi in 1969, inviting him to Caltech and saying that he was glad Siddiqi was "becoming serious about switching to neurobiology".
1967 Benzer PNAS Drosophila behavior - first benzer paper_1.pdf
One of the first Drosophila behaviour papers published in PNAS in 1967, from Seymour Benzer's lab at Caltech, "Behavioral mutants of Drosophila isolated by countercurrent distribution".
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
1960s 70s TIFR - Molecular Bio lab - 6.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.
1960s 70s TIFR - Molecular Bio lab - 3.jpg
V.D. Redkar using an Aminoacid Analyzer. TIFR Molecular Biology Unit in the late 1960s.
1960s 70s TIFR - Molecular Bio lab - 1.jpg
S.M Joshi sits and shears DNA into smaller pieces for doing a run on the analytical ultra-centrifuge. TIFR Molecular Biology Unit in the late 1960s.
TIFR Glass Blowing - 1.JPG
When Homi Bhabha set up TIFR, he also ensured that the new institute will have a full fledged technical group to cater to the experimental needs of its researchers. Over the years, the TIFR glass blowing facility acquired a reputation for its skilled…
NCBS Animal house - rabbit - 2000.tif
At the NCBS animal house, Saravanan (second from right) applies an injection to a lab rabbit as Mohan (first from right) watches over, c. 2001.
IMG_8010 - NCBS at IISc - unknown.JPG
Karishma, an NCBS student, at the electrophysiology rig at the TIFR Centre, IISc.
2016 KSK Inebriometer.JPG
The office of KS Krishnan, with the inebriometer he developed in the late 1980s, to better understand response to anesthetics. The device is essentially a fractionation system for Drosophila and find resistant mutants.
2000s InStem - Lab Space - Student.jpg
Around 2009, a new facility started incubating on the NCBS campus: InStem, the institute for stem cell and regenerative medicine, under the Department of Biotechnology. The InStem campus is being built adjacent to the NCBS campus, and faculty and…
1995 Rabbit cages in the pre fab animal house.jpg
Rabbit cages in the pre-fab animal house, part of the NCBS TIFR centre campus at IISc, mid 1990s. A full fledged animal house came up by the late 1990s on the current NCBS campus
1995 - NCBS at IISc - lab setup 3.JPG
Ramachandran, a student of Jayant Udgaonkar, at the FPLC chromatography system for separating proteins
1994 April - STC Minutes - Equipment Purchase List 95-96.tif
List of equipment to be procured during the 1995-96 period for NCBS at the TIFR Centre, IISc.
1994 April - STC Minutes - Equipment Purchase List 94-95.tif
List of equipment to be procured during the 1994-94 period for NCBS at the TIFR Centre, IISc.
1991 Mar TMS (Note on facilities).tif
As the NCBS crew was preparing to set up at the TIFR Centre in early 1991, TM Sahadevan and the other staff at the IISc campus were arranging the necessary equipment, including a temporary fly facility, autoclave, microscopy lab, and basic computing.
1984 Annual Report - TIFR - monoclonal antibodies eqpt.tif
Hybridoma Laboratory: Generation of monoclonal antibodies as probes of neural cell functions in Drosophila. 1984, Molecular Biology Unit, TIFR.
1983 Caltech Neurogenetics Lecture - 1.tif
The molecular biology unit at TIFR had become renowned for its Drosophila neurobiology and neurogenetics work by the early 1980s. Seen here are Obaid Siddiqi's lecture notes while on a sabbatical at Caltech, including sketches of the simple and…
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…
1979 - 1991 OS Ideas for Expts Note Book - 8.tif
Obaid Siddiqi's experimental ideas notebook. In this extract from 1991, Siddiqi's plans for a different kind of fly maze are seen.
1979 - 1991 OS Ideas for Expts Note Book - 1.tif
Cover of Obaid Siddiqi's experimental ideas notebook, with notes from across three decades.
1965 Jul 15 D-2004-01230-35(1 - 4) OS to TIFR Animal Unit.pdf
Obaid Siddiqi's note to MGK Menon requesting for more space to build up the facilities required for research at the molecular biology unit. Also seen is a sketch of the proposed animal unit in July 1965.