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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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Sudhir Krishna, faculty member at NCBS: The education model in India and the cracks between research and medicine.
Sudhir_Funda-applied-not-obaidophile_RESEARCH-TOGGLE
Sudhir Krishna, faculty member at NCBS: Reflections on fundamental and applied research and the distinctions from one early philosophy of Obaid Siddiqi.
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Sudhir Krishna, a senior faculty member at NCBS, and his wall of alumni from his lab over the last two decades.
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BV Sreekantan, former director of TIFR: Reflecting on the search for land in Bangalore for NCBS, c 1987.
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BV Sreekantan, former director of TIFR: The 1985 negotiations with the Planning Commission to set up national centres under TIFR to justify the scope of proposed programmes, including NCBS and GMRT.
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BV Sreekantan, former director of TIFR: The 1985 negotiations with the Planning Commission to set up national centres under TIFR to justify the scope of proposed programmes, including NCBS and GMRT.
sowdhamini_paper-publishing_RESEARCH-PROCESS
R Sowdhamini, faculty member at NCBS: On her prolific record of publishing and her work ethic.
sowdhamini_neuroscience-1994_RESEARCH-SHIFT
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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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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R Sowdhamini, faculty member at NCBS: Starting a creche at NCBS in the late 1990s.
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The shrubland on the campus of the University of Agricultural Sciences where NCBS stands today, c 1991
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Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: Growing up in Shantiniketan, a switch from physics to biology, and an early encounter with Obaid Siddiqi.
shona_scaling-too-big_GROWTH-SCALING
Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: Cautionary thoughts on the risk of scaling up an institute's size.
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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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Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: The formation of the NCBS logo and building an identity for the Centre.
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Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: Reflections on owernship of institutional facilities as a Centre grows.
shona_coming-India-char-OS-KV-JU_INSTTN-BUILDING
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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Sumantra Chattarji, faculty member at NCBS: On his ability to do risky, more adventurous science in India compared to other parts of the world. He reflects on his experience from publishing a paper on stress in the amygdala in the late 1990s despite…
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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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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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Shobhona Sharma, former student and current faculty member, TIFR: Memories of working with Obaid Siddiqi on building new lab spaces at TIFR.
shobhona_lack-of-collab-tifr-funda_RESEARCH-COLLAB
Shobhona Sharma, former student and current faculty member, TIFR: Thoughts on collaborations between the different disciplines at TIFR.
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.
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Shobhona Sharma, former student and current faculty member, TIFR: The story behind TIFR's Department of Biological Sciences seeking more space with a new building at TIFR (c 1998-2014), and the roadblocks along the way.
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Shobha Jagtap, administrative assistant in TIFR: Memories of working with Veronica Rodrigues
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Shobha Jagtap, administrative assistant in TIFR: Memories of working with Veronica Rodrigues
shashi_post-doc-grant_GROWTH-STARTUP
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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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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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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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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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.
shannon_negative-result_RESEARCH-PROCESS
Shannon Olsson, faculty member at NCBS: On the importance of publishing negative results
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Shannon Olsson, faculty member at NCBS: On applying to NCBS, with no connection to India or its local research environment.
shannon_game-respect-staff_INTERSECTION-HIERARCHY
Shannon Olsson, faculty member at NCBS: On wrestling the inherent class structures in NCBS and figuring out a way to work within and outside of them.
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Shannon Olsson, faculty member at NCBS: On an education where she hardly ever saw the distinction between fundamental and applied research.
shaju_staff-sci-reln-audit_INTERSECTION-HIERARCHY
Shaju Varghese, hospitality/security/canteen supervisor: On relations between staff and scientists and his perspective on the hierarchy within the system
shaju_single-stove-hesitation_GROWTH-STARTUP
Shaju Varghese, hospitality/security/canteen supervisor: On the early days of the NCBS canteen at the TIFR Centre, IISc.
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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.
shaju_mgmt-no-recognition_INTERSECTION-STAFF
Shaju Varghese, hospitality/security/canteen supervisor: His perspective on his role at NCBS and how it is perceived by others.
shaju_childhood-labor-catering_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
Shaju Varghese, hospitality/security/canteen supervisor: Reflections on a childhood in Kerala, and the connections with his work today.
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A selection of quotes on the scientific process from past and current faculty at TIFR and NCBS.
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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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Sanjay Sane, faculty member and former student at NCBS: Entering TIFR as a student and early interactions with Veronica Rodrigues.
sanjay_science-paper-military_RESEARCH-INFLECTION
Sanjay Sane, faculty member and former student at NCBS: Reflecting on the various lives of a research paper, including the interest from the military on his group's research at UC Berkeley.
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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.
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Sanjay Sane, faculty member and former student at NCBS: On the blinders one has on while working within a model system in biology.
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Sanjay Sane, faculty member and former student at NCBS: Working with a lab assistant whose knowledge is unique and irreplacable, and yet someone who is not easily employable outside the NCBS system.
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Sanjay Sane, faculty member and former student at NCBS: Thoughts on the affirmative action process and a long-term need for reservation policies along economics and not caste lines for employment.
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TM Sahadevan, long-time administrative architect at NCBS: An early career move from Coonoor to Bangalore, and being the first person from TIFR, Bombay, to land at the TIFR Centre, IISc in the mid 1970s.