Around 2000, NCBS sent its annual report to various companies, seeking support for its research programmes. Reliance Industries expressed interest in collaborating by investing in biotechnology and bio-informatics tools. These meeting minutes from…
Around 2000, NCBS sent its annual report to various companies, seeking support for its research programmes. Reliance Industries expressed interest in collaborating by investing in biotechnology and bio-informatics tools. These meeting minutes from…
Around 2000, NCBS sent its annual report to various companies, seeking support for its research programmes. Reliance Industries expressed interest in collaborating by investing in biotechnology and bio-informatics tools. These meeting minutes from…
With the help of the Centre of Wildlife Studies and the National Institute of Advanced Studies, NCBS started an MSc programme in Wildlife Biology, an effort to connect with the community and do evidence-based conservation research. It was finalized…
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…
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…
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.
Homi Bhabha's office memo from July 1962, where he informs his staff of the intent to start a molecular biology programme. He solicits input on equipment available for Obaid Siddiqi's work.
The first project summary for the molecular biology unit at TIFR, listing the equipment available and to be purchased, written soon after Obaid Siddiqi joined the Institute. Also seen is a faint sketch of the lab facility. September 1962.
The first project summary for the molecular biology unit at TIFR, listing the equipment available and to be purchased, written soon after Obaid Siddiqi joined the Institute. Also seen is a faint sketch of the lab facility. September 1962.
The first project summary for the molecular biology unit at TIFR, listing the equipment available and to be purchased, written soon after Obaid Siddiqi joined the Institute. Also seen is a faint sketch of the lab facility. September 1962.
The first project summary for the molecular biology unit at TIFR, listing the equipment available and to be purchased, written soon after Obaid Siddiqi joined the Institute. Also seen is a faint sketch of the lab facility. September 1962.
The first project summary for the molecular biology unit at TIFR, listing the equipment available and to be purchased, written soon after Obaid Siddiqi joined the Institute. Also seen is a faint sketch of the lab facility. September 1962.
The first project summary for the molecular biology unit at TIFR, listing the equipment available and to be purchased, written soon after Obaid Siddiqi joined the Institute. Also seen is a faint sketch of the lab facility. September 1962.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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
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…
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.
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…
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.
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".
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".