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Veronica Rodrigues joined TIFR for a PhD in the late 1970s after moving from Dublin, Ireland. Here, she reflects on her time as a student at TIFR and the lasting impressions of the space.
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Veronica Rodrigues joined TIFR for her PhD in the late 1970s. Here, she summarizes her student experience in response to a questionnaire submitted by Indira Chowdhury.
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Veronica Rodrigues joined TIFR for her PhD in the late 1970s. Here, she summarizes her experience in response to a questionnaire submitted by Indira Chowdhury.
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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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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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Virendra Singh, former director of TIFR: On the need for NCBS autonomy and yet defining the link to TIFR.
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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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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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K VijayRaghavan, faculty member at NCBS: Remarks on the reasons for the push in the early 1980s for an indepent centre for biology
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K VijayRaghavan, faculty member at NCBS: On the perceived hierarchy of disciplines within the TIFR system.
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K VijayRaghavan, faculty member at NCBS: An encounter with Guido Pontecorvo and thoughts on the scientific method.
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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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K VijayRaghavan, faculty member at NCBS: Recounting the wading through bureaucracy in the late 1980s, and the different attitudes of the early NCBS faculty.
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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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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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K VijayRaghavan, faculty member at NCBS: On the outsider's perception of TIFR that he saw while at Caltech.
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K VijayRaghavan, faculty member at NCBS: The path to TIFR after a chance reading of an Obaid Siddiqi paper while recuperating from tuberculosis in Delhi
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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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Vidita Vaidya, faculty member at TIFR: Reflections on being the only woman in a review in 2003, and the kind of questions she was asked.
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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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Vidita Vaidya, faculty member at TIFR: Interactions with scientific staff at NCBS and the need to have a growth-path for technical staff.
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Vidita Vaidya, faculty member at TIFR: Weighing in on the perception of NCBS as a rule breaker -- looking at the broader good rather than being bogged down by details
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On keeping lab notes: From the walls of Praveen Vemula's office and lab at NCBS
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Upinder Bhalla, faculty member at NCBS: Perspective on growing up tinkering with electronics and his life-long brush with tinkering as part of the scientific method.
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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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Upinder Bhalla, faculty member at NCBS: Growing up in JNU with two parents heavily involved in political action, and reflection on current campus life at NCBS.
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Upinder Bhalla, faculty member at NCBS: On early computational work with Ravi Iyengar in systems neurobiology, on Iyengar's persistence in pushing Bhalla along to publish field-altering research: a bistable biochemical feedback loop that could aid in…
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Uma Ramakrishnan, faculty member at NCBS: On the start of an MSc programme in wildlife biology and her hiring as one of the first faculty members in ecology and evolution
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The academic notice board at TIFR's molecular biology unit, 2016.
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In the main academic block at TIFR, near the Director's office, is a room called the Penthouse. It used to be the telephone exchange. Today, it is the records room. Records are preserved, but it takes institutional memory to track them down,…
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In the main academic block at TIFR, near the Director's office, is a room called the Penthouse. It used to be the telephone exchange. Today, it is the records room. Records are preserved, but it takes institutional memory to track them down,…
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Employees of the horticultural services at TIFR at work in the lawns in front of the main building on a typical monsoon day in Mumbai.
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When Homi Bhabha set up TIFR, he also ensured that the new institute will have a full fledged technical group to cater to the experimental needs of its researchers. Over the years, the TIFR glass blowing facility acquired a reputation for its skilled…
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Drosophila recipes and tubes are a common sight in most fly labs and faculty offices across TIFR and NCBS. This is at Champakali Ayyub's office in TIFR. Ayyub started as an assistant at TIFR, went on to do a PhD, and is now a scientific officer at…
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The TIFR Alcoholics Anonymous Group notice board.
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English is the medium of instruction and communication at TIFR and NCBS. It is unlikely to see anything written in Kannada anywhere on the NCBS campus. There are efforts at both places to try and bridge the gap with regional languages, like this…
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English is the medium of instruction and communication at TIFR and NCBS. It is unlikely to see anything written in Kannada anywhere on the NCBS campus. There are efforts at both places to try and bridge the gap with regional languages, like this…
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English is the medium of instruction and communication at TIFR and NCBS. It is unlikely to see anything written in Kannada anywhere on the NCBS campus. There are efforts at both places to try and bridge the gap with regional languages, like this…
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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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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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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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Taslimarif Saiyed, former NCBS student and current director, C-CAMP: On a conversation with Obaid Siddiqi after the 2002 Gujarat riots.
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Swetha Bhashyam, an MSc Wildlife student, studying the winter feeding ecology of the stump-tailed macaque in the Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam. (2015-16)
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Govind Swarup, former faculty member at TIFR: The distinction between NCBS and NCRA in how they view their autonomy from TIFR as shown in the naming.
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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: Recounting a story of a TIFR Council Meeting where JRD Tata advocated the setting up of many national centres under TIFR.
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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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MS Swaminathan, member of Planning Commission in 1980: Reflecting on a 1960s proposal for a National Biological Laboratory, and seeing the TIFR-IISc joint biology centre proposal while in the Planning Commission in 1980.
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Sudhir Krishna, faculty member at NCBS: An early introduction to TIFR as a summer student.