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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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Shobhona Sharma, former student and current faculty member, TIFR: Thoughts on collaborations between the different disciplines at TIFR.

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Shaju Varghese, hospitality/security/canteen supervisor: His team's work in running a thinly-staffed canteen during the 1992 Bombay riots, and how it shaped his career.

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Prem Chandra Gautam, head, Instrumentation Division: On the hiring process in his group, and what he looks for in new hires.

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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 his concern regarding faculty inbreeding in research institutes and his own effort to prevent it at NCBS.

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R Sowdhamini, faculty member at NCBS: On a delay in her hiring due to an NCBS faculty search in the mid 1990s for neuroscience researchers.

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PN Bhavsar, scientific officer at TIFR from the 1960s till his retirement: On his interview process at TIFR in the 1960s for the position of a lab assistant.

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BJ Rao, a faculty member at TIFR: On his conversation with Obaid Siddiqi regarding a move back to India in the 1980s, and the ensuing correspondence.

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Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: Cautionary note on the hiring process for administration

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N Shanthakumary, early hire in NCBS administration: Memories of entering the IISc campus for the first time in the early 1980s, and being hired into the system.

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Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: Starting as a new NCBS member in the late 1990s, and the encounters with Obaid Siddiqi, K VijayRaghavan and Jayant Udgaonkar.

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K VijayRaghavan, faculty member at NCBS: On being offered a position at the future NCBS while he was a PhD student at TIFR in the early 1980s.

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K VijayRaghavan, faculty member at NCBS: On the need for institutions to grow and being able to outlive their pasts.

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Ashok Rao, administrative officer: On his concern for lack of a robust mid-level management setup at NCBS as it keeps growing.

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Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: His perspective on the sweet spot that NCBS is in today, with an ability to grow with thought and deliberation.

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Sudhir Krishna, faculty member at NCBS: The future of the NCBS funding structure as it grows and the need to consider the future of students studying at the institute.

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SN Basha, staff member of the NCBS security services: On the difficulties of keeping track of everyone on campus as it grows, and the need to request IDs of people who enter.

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Jayant Udgaonkar, faculty member at NCBS: On why he resigned as dean, and his concern about the "ad-hoc" measures implemented across campus

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UB Poornima, chief architect at NCBS: Reflecting on changes in staff attitudes as an institution grows.

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TM Sahadevan, long-time administrative architect at NCBS: On the concerns of the institute as it grows and a need to cut across red tape while following structure.

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Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: Reflections on owernship of institutional facilities as a Centre grows.

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Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: Cautionary thoughts on the risk of scaling up an institute's size.

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Prem Chandra Gautam, head, Instrumentation Division: On devising a way to build two parallel telephone exchanges with inter-operable numbers, based on his previous knowledge of telephone exchanges.

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MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: On the early days of NCBS, his role as a bridge between IISc and NCBS/TIFR Centre, and getting grant money for new research.

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Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: The thought process prior to joining NCBS in the mid 1990s, the intense persuasion from NCBS and the immediate aftermath upon landing in Bangalore.

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KS Vishalakshi, early NCBS hire for administration: Reflections on starting at the TIFR Centre as a daily wage worker and typing up 100s of theses for students.

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PP Ranjith, early hire as lab manager at NCBS: Memories of working with students in the early days of NCBS, and taking ownership of instruments

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PN Bhavsar, scientific officer at TIFR from the 1960s till his retirement: On becoming a purchase officer for NCBS at its early stages in the mid 1990s.

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Jayant Udgaonkar, faculty member at NCBS: On the importance of camaraderie in the early years of NCBS.

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MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: The struggle to import Xenopus (a frog species) and the delay in the start of his experimental work at NCBS.

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PP Ranjith, early hire as lab manager at NCBS: Reflections on his role as someone who filled up many job positions in the early days of NCBS

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PP Ranjith, early hire as lab manager at NCBS: Working with Satyajit Mayor to develop a vibration-free table in the mid 1990s.

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Shaju Varghese, hospitality/security/canteen supervisor: On the early days of the NCBS canteen at the TIFR Centre, IISc.

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L Shashidhara, early post-doctoral researcher at NCBS, faculty at IISER: Start-up days at NCBS in the mid 1990s and an ability to apply for grants independently.

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Villoo Patell, early post doctoral researcher at NCBS and entrepreneur: Reflections on starting a company in NCBS in the mid to late 1990s, and the research environment at the time.

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Mukund Thattai, a 'Young Investigator' NCBS hire and current faculty member: The struggle for research centres in finding the right students and ensuring both faculty and students benefit from the process of a PhD.

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K VijayRaghavan, faculty member at NCBS: Reflecting that enthusiasm in the early faculty was a significant influencer for students to opt for NCBS when it started up.

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Aditi Bhattacharya, research scientist and former student: On entering NCBS as a graduate student in the early 2000s with no experience reading research papers.

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Anubhab Khan, current NCBS student: On a few unusual hobbies, and his path to joining NCBS.

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Debakshi Mullick, current PhD student at NCBS: On her interview prior to entering NCBS.

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Krishanu Ray, faculty member and former PhD student at TIFR: Memories of his PhD interview at TIFR, and comparing it to interviews today

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Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: The back story for his group's 2002 Journal of Neuroscience paper on looking at chronic stress patterns in the amygdala, http://www.jneurosci.org/content/22/15/6810.full

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PN Bhavsar, scientific officer at TIFR from the 1960s till his retirement: Tales from the lab -- on drawing horse blood for scientific work, and on a ghastly sulphuric acid incident.

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Dasaradhi Palakodeti, faculty member at InStem: On starting research in India on planaria, and the story behind getting planaria into India

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Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: The back story to his group's field-altering 1998 Nature paper, "GPI-anchored proteins are organized in submicron domains at the cell surface",…

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Mitradas Panicker, faculty member at NCBS: Tales from the process - a story of problems with pregnant animals when they were shipped from Hyderabad to Bangalore.

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R Sowdhamini, faculty member at NCBS: On her prolific record of publishing and her work ethic.

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Ajith Kumar, NCBS faculty member and co-ordinator of MSc programme in Wildlife Biology: An explanation of why his 1982-83 field notes from the Anamalai Hills in Tamil Nadu are on Braille paper.

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MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: Comparing how papers are written today and in the early days, and possible reasons for the differences.

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