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2000 Apr - STC Minutes - Reliance collab - 1.jpg
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…
2000 Apr - STC Minutes - Reliance collab - 2.jpg
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…
2000 Apr - STC Minutes - Reliance collab - 3.jpg
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…
2000 Apr - STC Minutes - Reliance collab - 4.jpg
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…
2000 Feb - STC Minutes - MSc Wildlife start.tif
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…
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.
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 vivarium 1 at ncbs.jpg
The animal houses of NCBS: The completed vivarium in 2000.
2000-BBC_doc_KSK-apparatus_RESEARCH-TOOLS
The Inebriometer - K S Krishnan
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…
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,…
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_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.
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…
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…
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 - 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…
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
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.
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.
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.
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_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.
2014-15 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.
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…
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.
aditi_funda-translation_RESEARCH-TOGGLE
Aditi Bhattacharya, research scientist and former student: On her memories of the research climate when she was a graduate student in the early 2000s, and the connects between fundamental and translational research.
Ajith_Braille_RESEARCH-PROCESS
Ajith Kumar, NCBS faculty member and co-ordinator of MSc programme in Wildlife Biology: An explanation of why his 1982-83 field notes from the Anamalai Hills in Tamil Nadu are on Braille paper.
ajith_Msc-wildlife-start_RESEARCH-SHIFT
Ajith Kumar, NCBS faculty member and co-ordinator of MSc programme in Wildlife Biology: On the origins of the MSc programme in Wildlife Biology at NCBS
bhavsar_horse-blood-sulphuric-acid-1970_RESEARCH-PROCESS
PN Bhavsar, scientific officer at TIFR from the 1960s till his retirement: Tales from the lab -- on drawing horse blood for scientific work, and on a ghastly sulphuric acid incident.
dasaradhi_planaria-intro_RESEARCH-PROCESS
Dasaradhi Palakodeti, faculty member at InStem: On starting research in India on planaria, and the story behind getting planaria into India
deepti_CRISPR_RESEARCH-TOOL-QUERY
Deepti Trivedi, technology scientist at NCBS: On introducing CRISPR as a research tool on the NCBS campus.
gaiti_1989—solo-paper-env_EDUCATION-MENTOR_RESEARCH-COLLB
Gaiti Hasan, faculty member at NCBS: On her work in the 1980s, publishing a series of single author papers in the late 1980s, and the research environment at TIFR.
gaiti_early-MBU-1983-89-behavior-genetics_RESEARCH-SHIFT
Gaiti Hasan, faculty member at NCBS: On the work around behaviour and genetics at TIFR in the 1980s
IMG_8010 - NCBS at IISc - unknown.JPG
Karishma, an NCBS student, at the electrophysiology rig at the TIFR Centre, IISc.
jayant_areas-sketch-1992_RESEARCH-SHIFT
Jayant Udgaonkar, faculty member at NCBS: On the September 1992 sketch looking at the different areas of research for NCBS
jitu_fluorofor-paper-backstory-rajat-pancho_RESEARCH-PROCESS
Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: The back story to his group's field-altering 1998 Nature paper, "GPI-anchored proteins are organized in submicron domains at the cell surface",…
jitu_madan-theory_RESEARCH-SHIFT
Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: On cementing the relationship between cell biology and theoretical work, with a decade-plus collaboration.
jitu_ncbs-research-information-organism_RESEARCH-SHIFT
Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: On a projected area of research, to bridge the scales of biology through an intricate understanding of information flow in organisms.
jitu_zeiss-scope-2cam-rocksteady_RESEARCH-TOOLS
Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: On his group's work with industry partners in customising and developing tools for basic research questions, which then become standard products in the field.
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.
Madhumala_Smell-explain_RESEARCH-QUERY
KS Madhumala, post doctoral researcher at NCBS: Explaining the broader questions that drive her research and the field of olfactory behaviour.
mathew_central-question-holy-grail_RESEARCH-QUERY-TOOL
MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: On the drive that having a central question in research offers in one's scientific career.
mathew_paper-writing_RESEARCH-PROCESS
MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: Comparing how papers are written today and in the early days, and possible reasons for the differences.
mmjohri_seaweed-tifr-shores-1969_RESEARCH-PROCESS
Man Mohan Johri, retired faculty member from TIFR: Picking up seaweed off the shores of TIFR for his early research in the late 1960s.
mohan_vibration-breeding_RESEARCH-TOOL
H Mohan, in charge of the animal house at NCBS: Tales from the process of science - the effect of vibration and construction on lab animals.
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.
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…
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.
OS_IARI-hailstorm_RESEARCH-INFLECTION
Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: Memories of a hail storm that destroyed his research at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in the 1950s, prompting a move to Glasgow for his PhD