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1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1966 Nov 29 D-2004-01230-49(1 - 11) OS to MGK - MBU outline neurobiology_1.pdf
An outline of the molecular biology unit's programme and faculty in November 1966
1969 Apr 8 D-2004-01230-90(1 of 1) OS to MGK - Narsimha Rao decline_edit
Obaid Siddiqi's letter to MGK Menon (April 8, 1969), where he expresses his lack of interest in a prospective senior faculty applicant, stating that his "published work does not provide evidence of originality and independent ability".
1970s OS with Brenner - Fr Babu.tif
Sydney Brenner (left) on one of his visits to TIFR's molecular biology unit in the 1970s. These would be life-long collaborations, all the way up to his future visits to Bangalore.
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.
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 10 lakhs to pursue the group's plans to intensify research in neurobiology. The note is written soon after his…
1975 VR to OS PhD request letter.jpg
After reading a paper by Vijay Sarathy and Obaid Siddiqi on bacterial recombination, Veronica Rodrigues, who was studying in Dublin, Ireland, sends a letter to Obaid Siddiqi expressing her interest in joining for a PhD. She would later build simple…
1976 Mahabaleshwar - Shobhona Satpal.pdf
Shobhona Sharma (second from left), a former TIFR student and current TIFR faculty, and other participants at the Mahabaleshwar Seminar, The seminars have been held continuously since the first ones in 1975, offering a space for students and teachers…
1976 Mahabaleshwar - Shobhona Satpal.pdf
Some images from gatherings at the Mahabaleshwar Seminars. The seminars have been held continuously since the first ones in 1975, offering a space for students and teachers from across the world to learn from each other. In the last image, Shobhona…
1976 Mahabaleshwar - Shobhona Satpal.pdf
Some images from gatherings at the Mahabaleshwar Seminars. The seminars have been held continuously since the first ones in 1975, offering a space for students and teachers from across the world to learn from each other. In the last image, Shobhona…
1976 Mahabaleshwar - Shobhona Satpal.pdf
Some images from gatherings at the Mahabaleshwar Seminars. The seminars have been held continuously since the first ones in 1975, offering a space for students and teachers from across the world to learn from each other. In the last image, Shobhona…
1976 Mahabaleshwar - Shobhona Satpal.pdf
Some images from gatherings at the Mahabaleshwar Seminars. The seminars have been held continuously since the first ones in 1975, offering a space for students and teachers from across the world to learn from each other. In the last image, Shobhona…
1976 TIFR application VR.jpg
The registration sheet for Veronica Rodrigues at TIFR, filled at the time she was a research scholar at the institute.
1980s 1990s - Inebriometer - left image with woman in blue.tif
In the late 1980s, KS Krishnan, a faculty member at TIFR, developed an ingenious inebriometer in order to better understand response to anesthetics. Here, a student is working on the inebriometer, which is essentially a fractionation system for…
1980s TIFR MBU - Lab Space - Delegation Visit.tif
Obaid Siddiqi (first from left) leading a German delegation visit through the labs of the TIFR molecular biology unit in the late 1980s.
1980s Vijay Mani.jpg
K VijayRaghavan and Mani Ramaswami, two early hires for NCBS, at Caltech in the late 1980s. (Ramaswami would later not join NCBS but remains a long-term collaborator with the students and faculty at the Centre)
1985_Obaid letter to BJ.TIFF
In 1985, BJ Rao (now faculty at TIFR) asked Obaid Siddiqi about prospects of scientific work in India as he contemplated a return. In this pragmatic and measured reply, Siddiqi advises that "no matter where you go, to a great extent, you will have to…
1988-10-19 Fr. O.Siddiqi To Jayant Udgaonkar.tif
Obaid Siddiqi's letter to Jayant Udgaonkar (October 1988), prior to an official appointment letter, explaining the nature of the new Bangalore centre.
1989 Aug - CNR Rao to V Singh - TIFR IISc space approval for NCBS.tif
The new crew moving to Bangalore needed to set up temporary labs to start working while they went through bureaucratic hurdles to procure land and build a new campus. In 1989, TIFR’s radio astronomy group led by Govind Swarup moved out of their…
1989 Aug - CNR Rao to V Singh - TIFR IISc space approval for NCBS.tif
The new crew moving to Bangalore needed to set up temporary labs to start working while they went through bureaucratic hurdles to procure land and build a new campus. In 1989, TIFR’s radio astronomy group led by Govind Swarup moved out of their…
1989 Jan - Govind Swarup vacating IISc TIFR Centre.tif
The new crew moving to Bangalore needed to set up temporary labs to start working while they went through bureaucratic hurdles to procure land and build a new campus. In 1989, TIFR’s radio astronomy group led by Govind Swarup moved out of their…
1990 NCBS Proposal - Financial outlay.pdf
The 1990 NCBS proposal summarizes the total cost of the new Centre to be 18 crores. By 1996, that estimate almost doubled to 33 crores.
1990-1991 TIFR Annual Report NCBS announcement.tif
The announcement of NCBS in the TIFR Annual Report, 1990-1991.
1990s Gaiti Hasan Lab group photo.jpg
Gaiti Hasan, one of the founding faculty members of NCBS, and her group in the mid 1990s, when the Centre was at the TIFR Centre, IISc.
1990s NCBS Laboratory interiors in the pre fab structure at IISc..jpg
NCBS Laboratory interiors in the pre-fab structure at IISc (TIFR Centre), early 1990s.
1990s Rabbit cages in the pre fab animal house.jpg
Rabbit cages in the pre-fab animal house, part of the NCBS TIFR centre campus at IISc, mid 1990s. A full fledged animal house came up by the late 1990s on the current NCBS campus
1991 - Media - NCBS UAS Shivappa probe.tif
Around the time when the agreement was signed between University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) and NCBS, politicians got a whiff of it and demanded a probe into the sale of 20 acres to TIFR.
1992 Jan Panicker member of STC - OS note.tif
Mitradas Panicker was also appointed to the steering committee of new institute that he was being hired at, the two events happening within a few months of each other.
1992-05-12 Office Order-Project Managemetn Committee for the NCBS
In May 1992, a Project Management Committee (PMC) was set up to oversee all matters related to the construction of NCBS. Similarly, an internal Steering Committee looked after day to day functioning needs at NCBS.
1993-04-26 PMC 2 Minutes - Faculty search area.tif
In a project management committee meeting in April 1993, the group decides the areas of research in which they are going to look for faculty, in what they called the first phase of hiring.
1993-94 Annual Report 146 - Close interaction.tif
The TIFR annual reports summarize the nature of work in each area of research. NCBS had its own separate section (besides the Molecular Biology Unit) in the years after its formation. The opening paragraph over those few years, like in this image,…
1994 Jitu to OS - NCBS Offer.tif
Satyajit Mayor's letter to Obaid Siddiqi, prior to being hired at NCBS.
1995 Cages for micerat in prefab structure.jpg
Cages for mice and rats in the prefab structure at the TIFR Centre, IISc, c 1995
1995 NCBS at IISc days - 1.tif
The early faculty and staff at one of the committee meetings, when NCBS was at the TIFR Centre, IISc, c. 1995.
1995 NCBS at IISc days - 1.tif
The early faculty and staff at one of the committee meetings, when NCBS was at the TIFR Centre, IISc, c. 1995.
1995 NCBS at IISc days - 2.tif
Early faculty, including Sudhir Krishna (centre) and Mitradas Panicker (right) at the TIFR Centre (IISc) canteen, c 1995
1995 NCBS at IISc days - 2.tif
Early faculty, including Sudhir Krishna (centre) and Mitradas Panicker (right) at the TIFR Centre (IISc) canteen, c 1995
1995 NCBS at IISc days - 3.tif
Satyajit Mayor's group with visiting scientists at the TIFR Centre (IISc) canteen, c 1995
1995 NCBS at IISc days - 3.tif
Satyajit Mayor's group with visiting scientists at the TIFR Centre (IISc) canteen, c 1995
1995 NCBS staff.tif
Most of the NCBS faculty, staff and students in early 1995, at the TIFR Centre, IISc. Notable people missing in the photo are two faculty members, Obaid Siddiqi and K VijayRaghavan, and Shaju Varghese, who moved from TIFR to set up the kitchen (and…
1995 TIFR centre at IISc.jpg
A view of the TIFR Centre, IISc, where NCBS was located at its start. The building now houses the IISc Centre for Neuroscience.
1996 NCBS to TIFR - Project Revision - 33 CR.tif
The 1990 NCBS proposal summarizes the total cost of the new Centre to be 18 crores. By 1996, that figure went up to 33 crores, and then to 35.83 crores in 1999.
1996 OS Note on Acad and Admin of NCBS - 1.tif
Five years after the founding of NCBS, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a note on the academic and administrative structure of the Centre. He made the case for giving it more structure through management boards and advisory committees, instead of decisions…
1996 OS Note on Acad and Admin of NCBS - 2.tif
Five years after the founding of NCBS, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a note on the academic and administrative structure of the Centre. He made the case for giving it more structure through management boards and advisory committees, instead of decisions…
1996 OS Note on Acad and Admin of NCBS - 3.tif
Five years after the founding of NCBS, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a note on the academic and administrative structure of the Centre. He made the case for giving it more structure through management boards and advisory committees, instead of decisions…
1996 OS Note on Acad and Admin of NCBS - 4.tif
Five years after the founding of NCBS, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a note on the academic and administrative structure of the Centre. He made the case for giving it more structure through management boards and advisory committees, instead of decisions…
1996 OS Note on Acad and Admin of NCBS - 5.tif
Five years after the founding of NCBS, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a note on the academic and administrative structure of the Centre. He made the case for giving it more structure through management boards and advisory committees, instead of decisions…
1996 OS Note on Acad and Admin of NCBS - 6.tif
Five years after the founding of NCBS, Obaid Siddiqi wrote a note on the academic and administrative structure of the Centre. He made the case for giving it more structure through management boards and advisory committees, instead of decisions…