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Veronica Rodrigues joined TIFR for a PhD in the late 1970s after moving from Dublin, Ireland. Here, she reflects on her time as a student at TIFR and the lasting impressions of the space.
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K VijayRaghavan, faculty member at NCBS: Remarks on the reasons for the push in the early 1980s for an indepent centre for biology
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K VijayRaghavan, faculty member at NCBS: An encounter with Guido Pontecorvo and thoughts on the scientific method.
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K VijayRaghavan, faculty member at NCBS: On the outsider's perception of TIFR that he saw while at Caltech.
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Govind Swarup, former faculty member at TIFR: The distinction between NCBS and NCRA in how they view their autonomy from TIFR as shown in the naming.
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MS Swaminathan, member of Planning Commission in 1980: Reflecting on a 1960s proposal for a National Biological Laboratory, and seeing the TIFR-IISc joint biology centre proposal while in the Planning Commission in 1980.
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BV Sreekantan, former director of TIFR: The 1985 negotiations with the Planning Commission to set up national centres under TIFR to justify the scope of proposed programmes, including NCBS and GMRT.
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Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: The formation of the NCBS logo and building an identity for the Centre.
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Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: On his ability to do risky, more adventurous science in India compared to other parts of the world. He reflects on his experience from publishing a paper on stress in the amygdala in the late 1990s despite…
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Shannon Olsson, faculty member at NCBS: On applying to NCBS, with no connection to India or its local research environment.
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A selection of quotes on the scientific process from past and current faculty at TIFR and NCBS.
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Sanjay Sane, faculty member and former student at NCBS: On the blinders one has on while working within a model system in biology.
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Satyajit Rath, faculty member at NII: Assessing the effect of NCBS breaking away from TIFR and building a brand for itself.
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PP Ranjith, early hire as lab manager at NCBS: On the difficulties in the mid 1990s of communicating to the outside world that there is a new NCBS.
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Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: Memories of conversations with S Ramaseshan, then director of IISc, to set up a separate centre for biology at IISc (c 1978).
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Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: A perspective on what makes biology unique and different from other sciences and finding ways to bridge the work across disciplines.
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Vidyanand Nanjundiah, faculty member at TIFR in 1980s: Reflections on the culture at NCBS today, comparisons to the climate at TIFR earlier.
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Vidyanand Nanjundiah, faculty member at TIFR in 1980s: On his move from IISc to TIFR, and reflections on the newly proposed (c 1981) IISc-TIFR joint centre for biology.
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Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: On his projections for the potential to leverage being in India for future areas of research for NCBS.
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Sudhanshu Jha, ex director of TIFR: On his memories of conversations with Obaid Siddiqi in TIFR's West Canteen in the 1970s. And reliving the talks on needing a space for biology
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Jayant Udgaonkar, faculty member at NCBS: On the actual name for NCBS, and his memories of changing the name to make it less of a mouthful.
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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…
Heisenberg_Humans and Other Animals On the Scope of Brain Science_1.pdf
Martin Heisenberg's 2012 essay in the Journal of Neurogenetics, reflecting on biology, his Drosophila work, and the limitations of brain science.
Heisenberg_Humans and Other Animals On the Scope of Brain Science_1.pdf
Martin Heisenberg's 2012 essay in the Journal of Neurogenetics, reflecting on biology, his Drosophila work, and the limitations of brain science.
Heisenberg_Humans and Other Animals On the Scope of Brain Science_1.pdf
Martin Heisenberg's 2012 essay in the Journal of Neurogenetics, reflecting on biology, his Drosophila work, and the limitations of brain science.
Heisenberg_Humans and Other Animals On the Scope of Brain Science_1.pdf
Martin Heisenberg's 2012 essay in the Journal of Neurogenetics, reflecting on biology, his Drosophila work, and the limitations of brain science.
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Gaiti Hasan, faculty member at NCBS: On her approach to finding research questions and tackling the unknown
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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.
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P Balaram, professor and ex-director, IISc: On the unknown links between an idea -- National Biological Laboratory -- and three institutes, NCBS, CCMB and NII.
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Ajith Kumar, NCBS faculty member and co-ordinator of MSc programme in Wildlife Biology: On the intent of the MSc programme in Wildlife Biology, to do evidence-based conservation research.
2009_JCB_Vale_India_Biosciences_Special_report.pdf
A 2009 special report in the Journal of Cell Biology on "Biological Sciences in India". The report is written by Ronald Vale and Karen Dell, long-time collaborators with NCBS faculty.
2009_JCB_Vale_India_Biosciences_Special_report.pdf
A 2009 special report in the Journal of Cell Biology on "Biological Sciences in India". The report is written by Ronald Vale and Karen Dell, long-time collaborators with NCBS faculty.
2009_JCB_Vale_India_Biosciences_Special_report.pdf
A 2009 special report in the Journal of Cell Biology on "Biological Sciences in India". The report is written by Ronald Vale and Karen Dell, long-time collaborators with NCBS faculty.
2009_JCB_Vale_India_Biosciences_Special_report.pdf
A 2009 special report in the Journal of Cell Biology on "Biological Sciences in India". The report is written by Ronald Vale and Karen Dell, long-time collaborators with NCBS faculty.
2009_JCB_Vale_India_Biosciences_Special_report.pdf
A 2009 special report in the Journal of Cell Biology on "Biological Sciences in India". The report is written by Ronald Vale and Karen Dell, long-time collaborators with NCBS faculty.
2009_JCB_Vale_India_Biosciences_Special_report.pdf
A 2009 special report in the Journal of Cell Biology on "Biological Sciences in India". The report is written by Ronald Vale and Karen Dell, long-time collaborators with NCBS faculty.
2009_JCB_Vale_India_Biosciences_Special_report.pdf
A 2009 special report in the Journal of Cell Biology on "Biological Sciences in India". The report is written by Ronald Vale and Karen Dell, long-time collaborators with NCBS faculty.
2009_JCB_Vale_India_Biosciences_Special_report.pdf
A 2009 special report in the Journal of Cell Biology on "Biological Sciences in India". The report is written by Ronald Vale and Karen Dell, long-time collaborators with NCBS faculty.
2009_JCB_Vale_India_Biosciences_Special_report.pdf
A 2009 special report in the Journal of Cell Biology on "Biological Sciences in India". The report is written by Ronald Vale and Karen Dell, long-time collaborators with NCBS faculty.
2009_JCB_Vale_India_Biosciences_Special_report.pdf
A 2009 special report in the Journal of Cell Biology on "Biological Sciences in India". The report is written by Ronald Vale and Karen Dell, long-time collaborators with NCBS faculty.
2009_JCB_Vale_India_Biosciences_Special_report.pdf
A 2009 special report in the Journal of Cell Biology on "Biological Sciences in India". The report is written by Ronald Vale and Karen Dell, long-time collaborators with NCBS faculty.
2009_JCB_Vale_India_Biosciences_Special_report.pdf
A 2009 special report in the Journal of Cell Biology on "Biological Sciences in India". The report is written by Ronald Vale and Karen Dell, long-time collaborators with NCBS faculty.
2009 Exam Blog - NBL Palampur - 1.png
While the 1960s plan for a National Biological Laboratory in Palampur never materialized, a National Centre for Biological Sciences did eventually come up independently. But all that has not stopped it from an NBL being mentioned in competitive…
2001 Inder Verma To OS - NAS Nomination.tif
An email in 2001 from Inder Verma at the Salk Institute requesting Obaid Siddiqi for a summary of his accomplishment, to nominate him to be a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
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The current NCBS logo and branding used on the website and official letterheads. Compare this with the letterhead from early days, shown in the previous image.
1999 OS Nomination of Jitu to IAS - 2.tif
Nomination letter from Obaid Siddiqi and Veronica Rodrigues for Satyajit Mayor, faculty member at NCBS, to the Indian Academy of Sciences. 1999.
1999 OS Nomination of Jitu to IAS - 1.tif
Nomination letter from Obaid Siddiqi and Veronica Rodrigues for Satyajit Mayor, faculty member at NCBS, to the Indian Academy of Sciences. 1999.
1999 Nov - STC minutes - Branding NCBS in pubs.tif
The faculty at NCBS discussing the naming of NCBS in scientific publications and the address. Steering Committee minutes, November 1999.
1999 Exam Blog - NBL Palampur - 2.png
While the 1960s plan for a National Biological Laboratory in Palampur never materialized, a National Centre for Biological Sciences did eventually come up independently. But all that has not stopped it from an NBL being mentioned in competitive…
1995-96 TIFR Annual Report - Faculty List incl NCBS NCRA.tif
An extract from the 1995-96 TIFR Annual Report showing the list of faculty at NCBS and NCRA. Creating new national centres under TIFR was an important step in defining autonomy and independent recognition of the institutes.