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KS Krishnan as a young researcher at TIFR

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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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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's office at NCBS. On the left is a modified inebriometer, which he made to study anesthetics in Drosophila.

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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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Shobha Jagtap, administrative assistant in TIFR: Memories of working with Veronica Rodrigues

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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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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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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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Deepti Trivedi, technology scientist at NCBS: On Obaid Siddiqi's hesitation in publishing a lot of material and his focus, instead, on the quality of the research shared with the world.

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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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Mitradas Panicker, faculty member at NCBS: An early introduction to TIFR as a summer student in PK Maitra's lab

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Champakali Ayyub, scientific officer at TIFR: On the role of Veronica Rodrigues in Ayyub's career.

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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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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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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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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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Upinder Bhalla, faculty member at NCBS: A childhood encounter with Obaid Siddiqi, and an early dislike for biology.

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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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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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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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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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Gaiti Hasan, faculty member at NCBS: On a summer spent at TIFR in the 1970s, and the process of being initiated into research.

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Deepti Trivedi, technology scientist at NCBS and former student: On the move from Delhi University to NCBS for graduate work and a feeling of being overwhelmed.

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Aditi Bhattacharya, research scientist and former student: On her experiences with coursework as a graduate student in the early 2000s

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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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Satyajit Rath, faculty member at NII: On a nationwide decoupling between college and post-graduate education/research.

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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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P Balaram, professor and ex-director, IISc: On joining as a teacher at IISc in the 1970s and views on the practice of teaching.

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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.