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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
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
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",…
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.
sowdhamini_paper-publishing_RESEARCH-PROCESS
R Sowdhamini, faculty member at NCBS: On her prolific record of publishing and her work ethic.
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.
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.
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.
shannon_negative-result_RESEARCH-PROCESS
Shannon Olsson, faculty member at NCBS: On the importance of publishing negative results
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
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…
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
uma_ecology-start-Msc_RESEARCH-SHIFT
Uma Ramakrishnan, faculty member at NCBS: On the start of an MSc programme in wildlife biology and her hiring as one of the first faculty members in ecology and evolution
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.
villoo_NCBS-start-avesthagen_RESEARCH-TOGGLE
Villoo Patell, early post doctoral researcher at NCBS and entrepreneur: Reflections on starting a company in NCBS in the mid to late 1990s, and the research environment at the time.
Sudhir_Funda-applied-not-obaidophile_RESEARCH-TOGGLE
Sudhir Krishna, faculty member at NCBS: Reflections on fundamental and applied research and the distinctions from one early philosophy of Obaid Siddiqi.
taslim_C-CAMP-benefit_RESEARCH-TOGGLE
Taslimarif Saiyed, former NCBS student and current director, C-CAMP: On the benefits of C-CAMP in the learning trajectory of a student at NCBS.
shannon_basic-applied-no-diff_RESEARCH-TOGGLE
Shannon Olsson, faculty member at NCBS: On an education where she hardly ever saw the distinction between fundamental and applied research.
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.
panic_fluorescence-stem-cell_RESEARCH-QUERY-TOOL
Mitradas Panicker, faculty member at NCBS: The back story to his group's 2014 work on endogenous blue fluoroscence markers in induced pluripotent stem cells and mouse epiblast stem cells,…
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.
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.
rnsingh_kusum-cutting-slices-1980s_RESEARCH-TOOLS
RN Singh, early faculty member at TIFR, and Kusum Singh, his partner: Early microtome work and the technical skill behind manually cutting slices.
deepti_CRISPR_RESEARCH-TOOL-QUERY
Deepti Trivedi, technology scientist at NCBS: On introducing CRISPR as a research tool on the NCBS campus.
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.
upi_tinkering_RESEARCH-QUERY-TOOL
Upinder Bhalla, faculty member at NCBS: Perspective on growing up tinkering with electronics and his life-long brush with tinkering as part of the scientific method.
1945 HB speech at TIFR inaug.pdf
Homi Bhabha presents his point of view for the new institute at the inauguration of TIFR in 1945. A section is marked out within where he discusses the view for fundamental research.
1945 HB speech at TIFR inaug.pdf
Homi Bhabha presents his point of view for the new institute at the inauguration of TIFR in 1945. A section is marked out within where he discusses the view for fundamental research.
1945 HB speech at TIFR inaug.pdf
Homi Bhabha presents his point of view for the new institute at the inauguration of TIFR in 1945. A section is marked out within where he discusses the view for fundamental research.
1945 HB speech at TIFR inaug.pdf
Homi Bhabha presents his point of view for the new institute at the inauguration of TIFR in 1945. A section is marked out within where he discusses the view for fundamental research.
1945 HB speech at TIFR inaug.pdf
Homi Bhabha presents his point of view for the new institute at the inauguration of TIFR in 1945. A section is marked out within where he discusses the view for fundamental research.
1945 HB speech at TIFR inaug.pdf
Homi Bhabha presents his point of view for the new institute at the inauguration of TIFR in 1945. A section is marked out within where he discusses the view for fundamental research.
1945 HB speech at TIFR inaug.pdf
Homi Bhabha presents his point of view for the new institute at the inauguration of TIFR in 1945. A section is marked out within where he discusses the view for fundamental research.
1945 HB speech at TIFR inaug.pdf
Homi Bhabha presents his point of view for the new institute at the inauguration of TIFR in 1945. A section is marked out within where he discusses the view for fundamental research.
1945 HB speech at TIFR inaug.pdf
Homi Bhabha presents his point of view for the new institute at the inauguration of TIFR in 1945. A section is marked out within where he discusses the view for fundamental research.
1945 HB speech at TIFR inaug.pdf
Homi Bhabha presents his point of view for the new institute at the inauguration of TIFR in 1945. A section is marked out within where he discusses the view for fundamental research.
1945 HB speech at TIFR inaug.pdf
Homi Bhabha presents his point of view for the new institute at the inauguration of TIFR in 1945. A section is marked out within where he discusses the view for fundamental research.
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. Areas covered at the…
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…