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sowdhamini_neuroscience-1994_RESEARCH-SHIFT
R Sowdhamini, faculty member at NCBS: On a delay in her hiring due to an NCBS faculty search in the mid 1990s for neuroscience researchers.
sanjay_science-paper-military_RESEARCH-INFLECTION
Sanjay Sane, faculty member and former student at NCBS: Reflecting on the various lives of a research paper, including the interest from the military on his group's research at UC Berkeley.
OS_science-choosing_RESEARCH-SHIFT
Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: The naming of NCBS groups, hierarchy within a lab and the way the names sometimes reflect the background work of the lead individual.
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
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.
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
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.
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
OS_neurobiology-shift_RESEARCH-INFLECTION
Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: On his shift to neurobiology in the early 1970s.
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.
upi_hire-computing-ravi_RESEARCH-COLLAB
Upinder Bhalla, faculty member at NCBS: On early computational work with Ravi Iyengar in systems neurobiology, on Iyengar's persistence in pushing Bhalla along to publish field-altering research: a bistable biochemical feedback loop that could aid in…
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
shannon_negative-result_RESEARCH-PROCESS
Shannon Olsson, faculty member at NCBS: On the importance of publishing negative results
ranjith_lab-kitchen-media-numbers_RESEARCH-PROCESS
PP Ranjith, early hire as lab manager at NCBS: The scale of work in the lab kitchen, by the numbers.
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.
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.
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.
sowdhamini_paper-publishing_RESEARCH-PROCESS
R Sowdhamini, faculty member at NCBS: On her prolific record of publishing and her work ethic.
panic_mouse-embryo_RESEARCH-PROCESS
Mitradas Panicker, faculty member at NCBS: Tales from the process - a story of problems with pregnant animals when they were shipped from Hyderabad to Bangalore.
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",…
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
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.
shona_amygdala_RESEARCH-PROCESS
Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: The back story for his group's 2002 Journal of Neuroscience paper on looking at chronic stress patterns in the amygdala, http://www.jneurosci.org/content/22/15/6810.full