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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.
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On keeping lab notes: From the walls of Praveen Vemula's office and lab at NCBS
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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.
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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…
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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
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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…
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Drosophila recipes and tubes are a common sight in most fly labs and faculty offices across TIFR and NCBS. This is at Champakali Ayyub's office in TIFR. Ayyub started as an assistant at TIFR, went on to do a PhD, and is now a scientific officer at…
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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.
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Swetha Bhashyam, an MSc Wildlife student, studying the winter feeding ecology of the stump-tailed macaque in the Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam. (2015-16)
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Sudhir Krishna, faculty member at NCBS: Reflections on fundamental and applied research and the distinctions from one early philosophy of Obaid Siddiqi.
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R Sowdhamini, faculty member at NCBS: On her prolific record of publishing and her work ethic.
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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.
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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
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Shannon Olsson, faculty member at NCBS: On the importance of publishing negative results
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Shannon Olsson, faculty member at NCBS: On an education where she hardly ever saw the distinction between fundamental and applied research.
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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.
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RN Singh, early faculty member at TIFR, and Kusum Singh, his partner: Early microtome work and the technical skill behind manually cutting slices.
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PP Ranjith, early hire as lab manager at NCBS: The scale of work in the lab kitchen, by the numbers.
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The 2014 work of Mitradas Panicker's group: A Method to Identify and Isolate Pluripotent Human Stem Cells Using Fluorescence. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213671114001453
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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.
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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,…
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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.
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Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: On his shift to neurobiology in the early 1970s.
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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
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Man Mohan Johri, retired faculty member from TIFR: Picking up seaweed off the shores of TIFR for his early research in the late 1960s.
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MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: Comparing how papers are written today and in the early days, and possible reasons for the differences.
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MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: On the drive that having a central question in research offers in one's scientific career.
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KS Madhumala, post doctoral researcher at NCBS: Explaining the broader questions that drive her research and the field of olfactory behaviour.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: On cementing the relationship between cell biology and theoretical work, with a decade-plus collaboration.
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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",…
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Jayant Udgaonkar, faculty member at NCBS: On the September 1992 sketch looking at the different areas of research for NCBS
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Karishma, an NCBS student, at the electrophysiology rig at the TIFR Centre, IISc.
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Gaiti Hasan, faculty member at NCBS: On the work around behaviour and genetics at TIFR in the 1980s
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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.
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Deepti Trivedi, technology scientist at NCBS: On introducing CRISPR as a research tool on the NCBS campus.
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Dasaradhi Palakodeti, faculty member at InStem: On starting research in India on planaria, and the story behind getting planaria into India
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.