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1965 McMillan to OS - Book Review 3a.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
2003 Oct KV to Review - NCBS synopsis and outlook - 4.jpg
A four page report in 2003 from the Director NCBS to an NCBS external review committee, just after its 10-year anniversary. It includes a list of points that the Centre felt it should attend to within the year at the time, including a way to connect…
2003 Oct KV to Review - NCBS synopsis and outlook - 3.jpg
A four page report in 2003 from the Director NCBS to an NCBS external review committee, just after its 10-year anniversary. It includes a list of points that the Centre felt it should attend to within the year at the time, including a way to connect…
2003 Oct KV to Review - NCBS synopsis and outlook - 2.jpg
A four page report in 2003 from the Director NCBS to an NCBS external review committee, just after its 10-year anniversary. It includes a list of points that the Centre felt it should attend to within the year at the time, including a way to connect…
2003 Oct KV to Review - NCBS synopsis and outlook - 1.jpg
A four page report in 2003 from the Director NCBS to an NCBS external review committee, just after its 10-year anniversary. It includes a list of points that the Centre felt it should attend to within the year at the time, including a way to connect…
1998 NCBS -- Living in a bubble.JPG
Living in a bubble: the completed NCBS campus in 1998.
1978 Apr 10 D-2004-01235-10 MRDas to Sreekantan hand - 2a.tif
An extract from a letter to BV Sreekantan from MR Das on April 10, 1978, where he expresses that his scientific priorities were not aligned with those of the molecular biology unit at TIFR
1976 Mar 4 D-2004-01232-(13-01) MR Das to Sreekantan - 1.tif
Extract from a March 1976 letter, MR Das to BV Sreekantan. Das, a faculty member in the molecular biology unit at TIFR, is seeking more funds for his programme.
1976 Apr 30 D-2004-01232-(15-02) Sreekantan to govt - virology $.tif
BV Sreekantan, then director of TIFR, writes to the Atomic Energy Commission, request more funds for MR Das' virology programme in the molecular biology unit at TIFR. The funds for molecular biology in the five year plan at the time had been…
1976 Apr 30 D-2004-01232-(15-01) Sreekantan to govt - virology $.tif
BV Sreekantan, then director of TIFR, writes to the Atomic Energy Commission, request more funds for MR Das' virology programme in the molecular biology unit at TIFR. The funds for molecular biology in the five year plan at the time had been…
1974 Oct 1 D-2004-01860 OS to TIFR 5-yr-plan neurobiology.tif
Responding to a request by the Dean of the Physics Faculty (Molecular Biology was in the Physics faculty), Obaid Siddiqi states a need for Rs. 10 lakhs to pursue the group's plans to intensify research in neurobiology. The note is written soon after…
1974 D-2004-01232 (4- 1-11) MBU composition note.tif
The composition of the molecular biology unit at TIFR in 1974. After 12 years of operation, the unit had eight faculty members, eight students and 16 supporting staff.
1997 Porter Committee Report - MBU NCBS divide 4.tif
The Molecular Biology Unit had a thin staff in the early 1990s and faced an uncertain future after the formation of NCBS, with many suggesting that it should be shut down. The 1997 Porter Committee Report, a TIFR-wide review, praised the work of the…
1991 Mar - Media - Probe in construction irregularity.tif
The lease deed process between the University of Agricultural Sciences and TIFR did have a few bumps. It became a topic of discussion in the Karnataka Government's Legislative Council. The agriculture minister defended the lease even as others…
1966 Aug 14 D-2004-01230-42(1 - 2) OS to MGK pace of research.pdf
Obaid Siddiqi's letter to MGK Menon in August 1966. Siddiqi writes during his trip to Yale and remarks that "the startling pace at which the field has moved made me feel rather depressed and acutely aware of the slowness of our own endeavours".
1965 Oct McMillan to OS Book manuscript acceptance.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1965 McMillan to OS - Book Review 3a.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1965 Dec OS to McMillan - Book Review 2b - 2 of 2.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1965 Dec OS to McMillan - Book Review 2b - 1 of 2.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1965 Dec McMillan to OS - Book Review 2a.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1965 Dec McMillan OS Book Review - Anonymous.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1965 Apr OS to McMillan book 24-7 work.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1962 OS to McMillan - TIFR manuscript.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
1962 Mar McMillan to OS book contract.jpg
Within a year of his PhD, when Obaid Siddiqi was at Yale in 1962, he received a book contract offer from McMillan, "Introduction to Molecular Genetics". These nine extracts give a glimpse of the events over the next three years. This was also a time…
2016 NCBS bee collateral 2.JPG
What is NCBS today used to be wasteland. Over the last 25 years, the area has built up to be a landscaped campus. The broader campus is also home to various insects that are used as model organisms; campus land is also used as a setting for research…
1997-08-14 PMC 11 Minutes - UAS Land Compensation - 3.tif
In August 1997, the NCBS Project Management Committee debated about how to deal with two unauthorised constructions on land that was allocated to NCBS by the Government of Karnataka.
1997-08-14 PMC 11 Minutes - UAS Land Compensation - 2.tif
In August 1997, the NCBS Project Management Committee debated about how to deal with two unauthorised constructions on land that was allocated to NCBS by the Government of Karnataka.
1963 Apr D-2004-00596-33(1 - 2) Wellcome Trust funding MBU.pdf
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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P Balaram, professor and ex-director, IISc: On the general perception of TIFR in the 1970s and 1980s as an 'isolated system', a culture very different from the other research and teaching institutes across the country.
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RN Singh, early faculty member at TIFR: The benefits of being part of DAE and the relative immunity of the institution in the face of past external turbulences like the Emergency.
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GH Mohan, in charge of the animal house at NCBS: On studying at the University of Agricultural Sciences in the early 1990s and being oblivious to the construction of a new Centre for biological sciences on his university campus.
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PP Ranjith, early hire as lab manager at NCBS: Smoothening tensions between students at the University of Agricultural Sciences and NCBS in the late 1990s.
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Shobhona Sharma, former student and current faculty member, TIFR: The relative immunity of being at TIFR in the face of external turbulences like the Emergency.
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K VijayRaghavan, faculty member at NCBS: On the need for an institution to have an international outlook.
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Satyajit Rath, faculty member at NII: Reflecting on the effect of the NCBS/TIFR model in Indian science.
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UB Poornima, chief architect at NCBS: On the personal health effect of site work during the NCBS construction in the 1990s
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Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: The effect of an NCBS on the faculty and research at the then molecular biology unit of TIFR
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Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: The personal impact of moving to NCBS in the late 1990s and how it shaped its outlook on life.
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Kaleem Siddiqi, faculty member at McGill University: His perspective on the effect his parents' move from Bombay to Bangalore had on Asiya Siddiqi's professional work as a historian.
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Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: On the effect of institution building and administration on scientific work.
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Krishanu Ray, faculty member and former PhD student at TIFR: His perspective on the rich, intellectual environment in olfactory behaviour of Drosophila at TIFR, and how it did not go the extra step it could have.
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L Shashidhara, early post-doctoral researcher at NCBS, faculty at IISER: On the broader impact of NCBS in the way biology is administered and practiced in Indian research institutions.
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Sanjay Sane, faculty member and former student at NCBS: The difficulties after the move to NCBS, and the trigger to switch to a local model systems as the basis for his research.
shobhona_DBS-unable-to-hire_RIPPLE-EFFECT
Shobhona Sharma, former student and current faculty member, TIFR: The effect of the construction of NCBS on TIFR's molecular biology unit in the mid to late 1990s, especially in regards to hiring.