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Obaid Siddiqi’s lab meetings. Deepti Trivedi finds objects that she remembers from her lab meetings between 1999-2003.

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Electrode puller probably obtained from TIFR when Obaid Siddidi arrived at NCBS. It was never used and used to be in a room with other old equipment. Deepti Trivedi, a former student, was really surprised to see it outside and wonder if it was used…

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A flood in 1999 in Obaid Siddiqi’s lab led to water above the ankles, and damaging a lot of previous material. Deepti Trivedi, a former student, recounts the event.

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T-traps were used for odour preference assays for Drosophila. One of the arms of the T-trap has an odorant while the other one is a control. Flies are let in from the third arm and allowed to roam around. The flies that are attracted by the specific…

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Obaid Siddiqi avoided computer-generated graphs as far as possible and expected his students to do the same. He would force them to draw curves by hand to get a feel of the trend in a particular experiment. The philosophy of verifying your own data…

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Deepti Trivedi's remarks upon seeing her handwriting and Obaid Siddiqi's handwriting in the lab, more than a decade after she passed through the lab. "During the time we were trying to find different ion channels that are present in Drosophila…

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Deepti Trivedi shares her memories of discussions between Obaid Siddiqi and Sunil Prabhakar, who joined Siddiqi's lab as an assistant, offering technical assistance for fly behavior experiments, stock keeping and management of laboratory consumables.…

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Back in the day when it wasn't easy to just print copies of journal articles off the web, reprints carried a lot of currency. Obaid Siddiqi continued to maintain a pile of reprints in his office and an even bigger set in his lab, in alphabetical…

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Soon after he moved to NCBS, Obaid Siddiqi started getting interested in hiring students at the BSc and MSc level in his lab. Students from the time would discuss the disproportionate size of his lab, compared to other labs. The trainees would stay…

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The aim of the wind-tunnel apparatus was to generate streamlined flow of known specific velocities and then possibly measure the behavior of the fly in the wind tunnel. Deepti Trivedi shares her memory of the device and the people who worked on it.