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Start-up days: Buying the NCBS dream - Mitradas Panicker

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The start-up days at NCBS - Jayant Udgaonkar

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Ideating NCBS in the 1970s - K VijayRaghavan

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Selecting students for molecular biology: On K S Krishnan - K Jagdish

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On competition within a campus - Jayant Udgaonkar

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Connecting with other institutions - K VijayRaghavan

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On Obaid Siddiqi: Creating institutions - M S Raghunathan

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On Obaid Siddiqi: Building up NCBS - K VijayRaghavan

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Start-up days in an unknown centre - Sumantra Chattarji

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Finding faculty for NCBS - Jayant Udgaonkar

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Change of guard at NCBS - T M Sahadevan

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Homi Bhabha's pursuit of international collaborations - B V Sreekantan

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Obaid Siddiqi's letter to MGK Menon (April 8, 1969), where he expresses his lack of interest in a prospective senior faculty applicant, stating that his "published work does not provide evidence of originality and independent ability".

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Sumita Anant (left) and Sunanda, students of K VijayRaghavan, at the microscope, TIFR Centre.

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BR Krishan, an NCBS student in the mid 1990s, walking through the corridors of the TIFR Centre, IISc.

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The open spaces at the TIFR Centre, IISc, where NCBS started off before it moved to the current campus.

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Satyajit Mayor's group with visiting scientists at the TIFR Centre (IISc) canteen, c 1995

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Early faculty, including Sudhir Krishna (centre) and Mitradas Panicker (right) at the TIFR Centre (IISc) canteen, c 1995

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The early faculty and staff at one of the committee meetings, when NCBS was at the TIFR Centre, IISc, c. 1995.

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Cages for mice and rats in the prefab structure at the TIFR Centre, IISc, c 1995

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RD John, Raj Rewal and PC Koteswara Rao, three people critically associated with the design and engineering of the NCBS campus, mid 1990s.

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Students of Jayant Udgaonkar at the TIFR Centre. From left: Vishwas Agashe, Aparna Kaul, Juhi, Ramachandra. c 1996

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Karishma, an NCBS student, at the electrophysiology rig at the TIFR Centre, IISc. c 1996

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The “Old TIFR building” that housed the TIFR group at IISc has gone through many incarnations. After TIFR moved out, it housed the IISc Archives. It’s now home to various IISc labs, including the Centre for Neuroscience. As seen in this image…

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Current view of the corridor where NCBS started, at the TIFR Centre, IISc.

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NCBS support staff, from a 1995-97 Annual Report. Left column: T Venkatesh (purchase), TM Sahadevan (administration), Shaju Varghese (Canteen, security, housekeeping), Shailaja (purchasing), Meena Srinivasan and S Umashahsi (Library). Right column:…

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An assortment of images from the NCBS 1995-97 Annual Report. Left column: Satyajit Mayor's lab meeting, MK Mathew's group, Jayant Udgaonkar and Mitradas Panicker. Right column: Gaiti Hasan's group, Jayant Udgaonkar's students, Avinash Shenoy (IT…

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A view of the TIFR Centre, IISc, where NCBS was located at its start. The building now houses the IISc Centre for Neuroscience.

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Most of the NCBS faculty, staff and students in early 1995, at the TIFR Centre, IISc. Notable people missing in the photo are two faculty members, Obaid Siddiqi and K VijayRaghavan, and Shaju Varghese, who moved from TIFR to set up the kitchen (and…

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In May 1992, a Project Management Committee (PMC) was set up to oversee all matters related to the construction of NCBS. Similarly, an internal Steering Committee looked after day to day functioning needs at NCBS.

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Around the time when the agreement was signed between University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) and NCBS, politicians got a whiff of it and demanded a probe into the sale of 20 acres to TIFR.

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Rabbit cages in the pre-fab animal house, part of the NCBS TIFR centre campus at IISc, mid 1990s. A full fledged animal house came up by the late 1990s on the current NCBS campus

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NCBS Laboratory interiors in the pre-fab structure at IISc (TIFR Centre), early 1990s.

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The announcement of NCBS in the TIFR Annual Report, 1990-1991.

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The new crew moving to Bangalore needed to set up temporary labs to start working while they went through bureaucratic hurdles to procure land and build a new campus. In 1989, TIFR’s radio astronomy group led by Govind Swarup moved out of their…

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The new crew moving to Bangalore needed to set up temporary labs to start working while they went through bureaucratic hurdles to procure land and build a new campus. In 1989, TIFR’s radio astronomy group led by Govind Swarup moved out of their…

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The old office for Obaid Siddiqi at the TIFR Molecular Biology Unit. It is now home to Krishanu Ray's fly lab.

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Letter from the Wellcome Trust to Homi Bhabha in April 1963, offering funding of 40,000 pounds to help build the new molecular biology unit at TIFR.

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Letter from the Wellcome Trust to Homi Bhabha in April 1963, offering funding of 40,000 pounds to help build the new molecular biology unit at TIFR.

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Discussions in the faculty meeting in November 1962 regarding the funding source for Siddiqi's lab (around the time that Obaid Siddiqi joined TIFR, the war broke out between India and China).

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Discussions in the faculty meeting in November 1962 regarding the funding source for Siddiqi's lab (around the time that Obaid Siddiqi joined TIFR, the war broke out between India and China).

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Homi Bhabha's office memo from July 1962, where he informs his staff of the intent to start a molecular biology programme. He solicits input on equipment available for Obaid Siddiqi's work.

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Homi Bhabha's letter to AV Hill in 1945, just before the end of the World War, outlining the start of the new research institute in Bombay.

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Homi Bhabha's letter to AV Hill in 1945, just before the end of the World War, outlining the start of the new research institute in Bombay.

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An excerpt from a draft of the letter that Homi Bhabha wrote to Sorabji Tata in 1944, outlining his desire to build a new research institute for physics.

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Ramachandran, a student of Jayant Udgaonkar, at the fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) system for analyzing proteins. c 1995

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Sujata Varadarajan, one of K VijayRaghavan's first students, at the TIFR Centre campus in 1996. Varadarajan is looking at Drosphila that had wing defects due to mutations in a gene. It was a genetic defect that K VijayRaghavan and Veronica Rodrigues…

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The list of PhD students, junior research fellows and post doctoral researchers at NCBS, c 1994

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Mitradas Panicker's (top row, fourth from left) research group at NCBS, c 2004. Also seen is Aditi Bhattacharya (front row, second from left), now a research faculty at InStem.