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Veronica Rodrigues joined TIFR for her PhD in the late 1970s. Here, she summarizes her student experience in response to a questionnaire submitted by Indira Chowdhury.
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Veronica Rodrigues joined TIFR for her PhD in the late 1970s. Here, she summarizes her experience in response to a questionnaire submitted by Indira Chowdhury.
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Vidita Vaidya, faculty member at TIFR: The influence of KS Krishnan and Veronica Rodrigues when she joined as a young faculty member at TIFR
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Upinder Bhalla, faculty member at NCBS: A childhood encounter with Obaid Siddiqi, and an early dislike for biology.
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The academic notice board at TIFR's molecular biology unit, 2016.
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Taslimarif Saiyed, former NCBS student and current director, C-CAMP: Memories of being a student in Obaid Siddiqi's lab and the art of holding a pencil.
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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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Govind Swarup, former faculty member at TIFR: The thought process behind selecting students in TIFR interviews.
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Govind Swarup, former faculty member at TIFR: On the need to integrate engineering and science education for students, and the potential of the IISER model.
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Sudhir Krishna, faculty member at NCBS: The education model in India and the cracks between research and medicine.
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Shobha Jagtap, administrative assistant in TIFR: Memories of working with Veronica Rodrigues
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L Shashidhara, early post-doctoral researcher at NCBS, faculty at IISER: On future trajectories for students after they do their PhD and the need to wrestle with this problem in a more cohesive manner.
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Saurabh Mahajan, current PhD student at NCBS: Thoughts on why he is doing a PhD and the need for a more rigorous education in teaching.
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Sanjay Sane, faculty member and former student at NCBS: Entering TIFR as a student and early interactions with Veronica Rodrigues.
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Satyajit Rath, faculty member at NII: On a nationwide decoupling between college and post-graduate education/research.
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KS Krishnan (left) and Veronica Rodrigues (right), two long-time faculty members at TIFR and NCBS, sitting in the NCBS cafeteria.
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KS Krishnan (left), Veronica Rodrigues (second from left), Mani Ramaswami (third from left), and K VijayRaghavan. Unknown date.
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Veronica Rodrigues at a tug-of-war event in TIFR, date unknown
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Veronica Rodrigues at her graduation in Dublin, 1976.
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Guido Pontecorvo, Obaid Siddiqi's mentor and PhD advisor at the University of Glasgow. After Pontecorvo's demise, Siddiqi would write a detailed obituary in the Royal Society proceedings.
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Sydney Brenner (left), KS Krishnan (middle) and Obaid Siddiqi, on the NCBS campus. Unknown date.
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KS Krishnan and Veronica Rodrigues. Unknown date.
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KS Krishnan and Veronica Rodrigues. Unknown date.
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KS Krishnan was known for his ability to make friends with most people across the TIFR campus. Here, he convinced some people to bring down a hive off a tree, and then also put it into a case. When he moved to NCBS, he donated the case to Vidita…
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KS Krishnan peering down a microscope, in his later years at TIFR
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KS Krishnan as a young researcher at TIFR
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A joint obituary for PK Maitra and Zita Lobo, published in Yeast journal in 2008. Maitra joined TIFR's molecular biology unit as a young faculty member in 1963 and would go on to mentor many generations of students. Lobo joined as a research…
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A joint obituary for PK Maitra and Zita Lobo, published in Yeast journal in 2008. Maitra joined TIFR's molecular biology unit as a young faculty member in 1963 and would go on to mentor many generations of students. Lobo joined as a research…
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Mitradas Panicker, faculty member at NCBS: An early introduction to TIFR as a summer student in PK Maitra's lab
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Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: Being mentored by Riayat Khan while at Aligarh Muslim University in the 1950s, and being firmly situated in a research career.
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PhD thesis of Obaid Siddiqi. April 1961
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PhD thesis of Obaid Siddiqi. April 1961
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John Nicholls' 2012 article in the Journal of Neurogenetics in a special issue dedicated to Obaid Siddiqi. Nicholls's essay focuses on the aims and achievements of intensive lecture and lab courses in neurobiology in countries with little money.
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John Nicholls' 2012 article in the Journal of Neurogenetics in a special issue dedicated to Obaid Siddiqi. Nicholls's essay focuses on the aims and achievements of intensive lecture and lab courses in neurobiology in countries with little money.
Nicholls_Obaid Siddiqi_Neuroscience Courses in Countries With Little Money for Research_2.pdf
John Nicholls' 2012 article in the Journal of Neurogenetics in a special issue dedicated to Obaid Siddiqi. Nicholls's essay focuses on the aims and achievements of intensive lecture and lab courses in neurobiology in countries with little money.
Nicholls_Obaid Siddiqi_Neuroscience Courses in Countries With Little Money for Research_1.pdf
John Nicholls' 2012 article in the Journal of Neurogenetics in a special issue dedicated to Obaid Siddiqi. Nicholls's essay focuses on the aims and achievements of intensive lecture and lab courses in neurobiology in countries with little money.
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Mukund Thattai, a 'Young Investigator' NCBS hire and current faculty member: His perspective on what could or should be the broader purpose of NCBS and its research.
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Mukund Thattai, a 'Young Investigator' NCBS hire and current faculty member: On teaching an ethics course at NCBS, and on one of the biggest issues facing Indian science
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MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: Thoughts on the biochemistry course that he and Jayant Udgaonkar have taught at NCBS almost since the beginning of the Centre.
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MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: On selection of students, and, for instance, finding people suitable for particulars of working with an electrophysiology rig.
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Maithreyi Narasimha, faculty member at TIFR: On the influence of Veronica Rodrigues when she joined as a young faculty at TIFR.
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KS Madhumala, post doctoral researcher at NCBS: Reflections on maintaining lab notes and why she felt she got hired as a student.
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The lab notebook of KS Madhumala, a post doctoral researcher at NCBS. Madhumala was a student of Veronica Rodrigues and in her audio excerpt, she discusses how she may have been taken on as a research fellow at NCBS partly because of her lab notes.
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A portion of KS Krishnan's bookshelf in his office at NCBS, giving a sample of his diverse interests.
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KS Krishnan's office at NCBS. On the left is a modified inebriometer, which he made to study anesthetics in Drosophila.
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H Krishnamurthy, scientific officer and head of imaging/cytometry, NCBS: On pushing his technical staff to enter into degree programs while working.
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Kaleem Siddiqi, computer sciences faculty member at McGill University: Reflecting on a childhood in the TIFR campus, and reaching out to his father, Obaid Siddiqi, with problems in mathematics.
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Jayant Udgaonkar, faculty member at NCBS: On the need for coursework and his push to build an academic programme (with MK Mathew) at NCBS
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Obaid Siddiqi at his residence in Bangalore, 2008.
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Gaiti Hasan, faculty member at NCBS: On a summer spent at TIFR in the 1970s, and the process of being initiated into research.