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TM Sahadevan, long-time administrative architect at NCBS: Memories of the late 1980s period when NCBS was being offered land in Maharashtra while struggling to find land in Karnataka.
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TM Sahadevan, long-time administrative architect at NCBS: First meeting with Obaid Siddiqi at the TIFR Centre, IISc, in the mid 1980s.
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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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Rudra Naik, caretaker at the NCBS guesthouse: Memories of building a relationship with students and faculty at the old cafeteria in the early 2000s.
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RN Singh, early faculty member at TIFR, and Kusum Singh, his partner: Early microtome work and the technical skill behind manually cutting slices.
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RN Singh, early faculty member at TIFR: The benefits of being part of DAE and the relative immunity of the institution in the face of past external turbulences like the Emergency.
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Raj Rewal, architect of the first phase of NCBS: Perspective on 'rasa' in architecture and his view of designing buildings for science.
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Satyajit Rath, faculty member at NII: Assessing the effect of NCBS breaking away from TIFR and building a brand for itself.
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Satyajit Rath, faculty member at NII: Reflecting on the effect of the NCBS/TIFR model in Indian science.
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Satyajit Rath, faculty member at NII: On the role of affirmative action in diversifying the demographic of researchers at places like NCBS, NII and beyond.
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Satyajit Rath, faculty member at NII: On a nationwide decoupling between college and post-graduate education/research.
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PP Ranjith, early hire as lab manager at NCBS: Figuring out what to do with all the waste that a laboratory generates.
ranjith_staff-tea-bathroom-fear_INTERSECTION-HIERARCHY
PP Ranjith, early hire as lab manager at NCBS: A story illustrating the limitations of contract staff working within a system under a little job insecurity.
ranjith_lab-kitchen-media-numbers_RESEARCH-PROCESS
PP Ranjith, early hire as lab manager at NCBS: The scale of work in the lab kitchen, by the numbers.
ranjith_kerala-maths_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
PP Ranjith, early hire as lab manager at NCBS: A degree in mathematics, and the circumstances behind a move from Kerala in search of a job.
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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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PP Ranjith, early hire as lab manager at NCBS: On the difficulties in the mid 1990s of communicating to the outside world that there is a new NCBS.
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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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PP Ranjith, early hire as lab manager at NCBS: On building an efficient administrative process in the lab and working within the rules.
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PP Ranjith, early hire as lab manager at NCBS: Smoothening tensions between students at the University of Agricultural Sciences and NCBS in the late 1990s.
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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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KS Krishnan (left) and Veronica Rodrigues (right), two long-time faculty members at TIFR and NCBS, sitting in the NCBS cafeteria.
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KS Krishnan (left), Veronica Rodrigues (second from left), Mani Ramaswami (third from left), and K VijayRaghavan. Unknown date.
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Veronica Rodrigues at a tug-of-war event in TIFR, date unknown
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Veronica Rodrigues at her graduation in Dublin, 1976.
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Guido Pontecorvo, Obaid Siddiqi's mentor and PhD advisor at the University of Glasgow. After Pontecorvo's demise, Siddiqi would write a detailed obituary in the Royal Society proceedings.
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Sydney Brenner (left), KS Krishnan (middle) and Obaid Siddiqi, on the NCBS campus. Unknown date.
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KS Krishnan and Veronica Rodrigues. Unknown date.
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KS Krishnan and Veronica Rodrigues. Unknown date.
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KS Krishnan was known for his ability to make friends with most people across the TIFR campus. Here, he convinced some people to bring down a hive off a tree, and then also put it into a case. When he moved to NCBS, he donated the case to Vidita…
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KS Krishnan peering down a microscope, in his later years at TIFR
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KS Krishnan as a young researcher at TIFR
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UB Poornima, chief architect at NCBS: Reflecting on changes in staff attitudes as an institution grows.
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UB Poornima, chief architect at NCBS: Memories of the design changes on the library wall (now Simons Centre at NCBS), conversations between Raj Rewal and Obaid Siddiqi, and follow-up effects.
poornima_emergency-home-sci_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
UB Poornima, chief architect at NCBS: Early career circumstances and choosing architecture as a career.
poornima_dabba-aesthetic_INSTTN-ARCH
UB Poornima, chief architect at NCBS: On the philosophy guiding architectural design.
poornima_crusher-asthma_RIPPLE-TOLL
UB Poornima, chief architect at NCBS: On the personal health effect of site work during the NCBS construction in the 1990s
PKM_Z_Lobo_Obit_2.pdf
A joint obituary for PK Maitra and Zita Lobo, published in Yeast journal in 2008. Maitra joined TIFR's molecular biology unit as a young faculty member in 1963 and would go on to mentor many generations of students. Lobo joined as a research…
PKM_Z_Lobo_Obit_1.pdf
A joint obituary for PK Maitra and Zita Lobo, published in Yeast journal in 2008. Maitra joined TIFR's molecular biology unit as a young faculty member in 1963 and would go on to mentor many generations of students. Lobo joined as a research…
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The 2014 work of Mitradas Panicker's group: A Method to Identify and Isolate Pluripotent Human Stem Cells Using Fluorescence. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213671114001453
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Mitradas Panicker, faculty member at NCBS: An early introduction to TIFR as a summer student in PK Maitra's lab
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Mitradas Panicker, faculty member at NCBS: An early introduction to TIFR as a summer student in PK Maitra's lab
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Mitradas Panicker, faculty member at NCBS: Memories of early stem cell work at NCBS in the late 1990s, including collaborations with a fertility clinic in Bombay.
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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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Mitradas Panicker, faculty member at NCBS: The back story to his group's 2014 work on endogenous blue fluoroscence markers in induced pluripotent stem cells and mouse epiblast stem cells,…
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Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: The naming of NCBS groups, hierarchy within a lab and the way the names sometimes reflect the background work of the lead individual.
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Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: Being mentored by Riayat Khan while at Aligarh Muslim University in the 1950s, and being firmly situated in a research career.
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Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: Memories of conversations with S Ramaseshan, then director of IISc, to set up a separate centre for biology at IISc (c 1978).
OS_on-biology-complexity_IDENTITY-REFLECTION
Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: A perspective on what makes biology unique and different from other sciences and finding ways to bridge the work across disciplines.
OS_neurobiology-shift_RESEARCH-INFLECTION
Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: On his shift to neurobiology in the early 1970s.