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Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: The effect of an NCBS on the faculty and research at the then molecular biology unit of TIFR
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Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: The early ideology behind setting up NCBS in Bangalore
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Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: Memories of a hail storm that destroyed his research at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in the 1950s, prompting a move to Glasgow for his PhD
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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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Obaid Siddiqi, founding member of NCBS & TIFR's molecular biology unit: Reflections on the role and limitations of a director of an institute
OS Lab - Sunil Prabhakar citation.JPG
Image from Obaid Siddiqi's lab. Sunil Prabhakar joined Obaid Siddiqi's lab as an assistant, offering technical assistance for fly behavior experiments, stock keeping and management of laboratory consumables. He would later continue to do a Masters,…
OS Lab - Hand drawn graphs.JPG
Obaid Siddiqi avoided computer-generated graphs as far as possible and expected his students to do the same. He would force them to draw curves by hand to get a feel of the trend in a particular experiment.
Original Greenery where the Southern Laboratory now stands.jpg
A view of the green space overlooking the NCBS old campus, c 2005. By 2012, this space was filled by the Southern Lab Complex.
Original Greenery where the Southern Laboratory now stands.jpg
NCBS has been rather guarded about its landscape. The green patch seen in this image was always planned for a Phase 2 expansion of the campus. But when the Southern Lab Complex came up, the architects and engineers were allowed to only cut one line…
Original Greenery where the Southern Laboratory now stands.jpg
A view of the green space overlooking the NCBS old campus, c 2005. By 2012, this space was filled by the Southern Lab Complex.
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Obaid Siddiqi (left) and Seymour Benzer at Pasadena, CA, in the early 1970s. The external collaborations of many faculty members were critical in identity-building for the molecular biology unit. During Siddiqi’s sabbatical at Caltech, Siddiqi…
Obaid Siddiqi with close fly colleagues Cold Spring harbour.jpg
A broad section of the Drosophila community at a meeting at Cold Spring Harbour in 1987. Seen among others are Utpal Banerjee (top row, sixth from right), Seymour Benzer (second row, second from left), Martin Heisenberg (top row, second from right)…
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PhD thesis of Obaid Siddiqi. April 1961
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PhD thesis of Obaid Siddiqi. April 1961
Nicholls_Obaid Siddiqi_Neuroscience Courses in Countries With Little Money for Research_4.pdf
John Nicholls' 2012 article in the Journal of Neurogenetics in a special issue dedicated to Obaid Siddiqi. Nicholls's essay focuses on the aims and achievements of intensive lecture and lab courses in neurobiology in countries with little money.
Nicholls_Obaid Siddiqi_Neuroscience Courses in Countries With Little Money for Research_3.pdf
John Nicholls' 2012 article in the Journal of Neurogenetics in a special issue dedicated to Obaid Siddiqi. Nicholls's essay focuses on the aims and achievements of intensive lecture and lab courses in neurobiology in countries with little money.
Nicholls_Obaid Siddiqi_Neuroscience Courses in Countries With Little Money for Research_2.pdf
John Nicholls' 2012 article in the Journal of Neurogenetics in a special issue dedicated to Obaid Siddiqi. Nicholls's essay focuses on the aims and achievements of intensive lecture and lab courses in neurobiology in countries with little money.
Nicholls_Obaid Siddiqi_Neuroscience Courses in Countries With Little Money for Research_1.pdf
John Nicholls' 2012 article in the Journal of Neurogenetics in a special issue dedicated to Obaid Siddiqi. Nicholls's essay focuses on the aims and achievements of intensive lecture and lab courses in neurobiology in countries with little money.
NCBS-TIFR (Renewal of Appointment-grant of increment of Research Scholars).tif
The list of PhD students, junior research fellows and post doctoral researchers at NCBS, c 1994
NCBS Library - 2000.tif
The NCBS Library used to be in what is today the Simons Centre / theory group. The Library then moved to a new larger space in the Southern Lab Complex in 2012. As it grows, NCBS relies on this flexibility to shuffle spaces and accommodate new…
NCBS lawn - Horticulture services.jpg
Almost every day, at a certain hour in the late morning, four employees of the horticultural services are at work, weeding in the central lawn.
NCBS lab space 2000 1.tif
When the researchers moved from the TIFR Centre to the NCBS campus in 1998, they moved into individual labs like this one (Jayant Udgaonkar's group). The new Southern Lab Complex favours an open lab structure, with one long hall, not unlike a scaled…
NCBS campus 1998 elevation.tif
An elevation view of the NCBS campus, soon after completion of construction. Also visible is the animal hut, which was the temporary shelter for the lab animals till a new building was built.
NCBS at IISc - Admin space.tif
RD John, Raj Rewal and PC Koteswara Rao, three people critically associated with the design and engineering of the NCBS campus, mid 1990s.
NCBS Animal house - rabbit - 2000.tif
At the NCBS animal house, Saravanan (second from right) applies an injection to a lab rabbit as Mohan (first from right) watches over, c. 2001.
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Vidyanand Nanjundiah, faculty member at TIFR in 1980s: Reflecting on the role of H Sharat Chandra in early negotiations for NCBS to get space in Bangalore
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Vidyanand Nanjundiah, faculty member at TIFR in 1980s: On the changes in gender imbalance in science from the 1970s to today.
nanjundiah_NCBS-culture-risk-hi-money_IDENTITY-BRANDING
Vidyanand Nanjundiah, faculty member at TIFR in 1980s: Reflections on the culture at NCBS today, comparisons to the climate at TIFR earlier.
nanjundiah_1976-80-IISc-TIFR_RESEARCH-COLLAB
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.
nanjundiah_1976-80-IISc-TIFR_IDENTITY-SPACE
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.
Mukund_Students-research_EDUCATION-KNOWLEDGE
Mukund Thattai, a 'Young Investigator' NCBS hire and current faculty member: His perspective on what could or should be the broader purpose of NCBS and its research.
Mukund_Signal-noise_GROWTH-STUDENT
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.
Mukund_Father-factory_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
Mukund Thattai, a 'Young Investigator' NCBS hire and current faculty member: Early childhood, a short history extract and a unique engineering project.
Mukund_Ethics_RIPPLE-FRICTION
Mukund Thattai, a 'Young Investigator' NCBS hire and current faculty member: On teaching an ethics course at NCBS, and on one of the biggest issues facing Indian science
msr_maths-bio-regard_RESEARCH-COLLAB
MS Raghunathan, former mathematics faculty member and student, TIFR: Reflections on the collaborations -- or lack, thereof -- between physicists, mathematicians and biologists at TIFR.
mohan_vibration-breeding_RESEARCH-TOOL
H Mohan, in charge of the animal house at NCBS: Tales from the process of science - the effect of vibration and construction on lab animals.
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GH Mohan, in charge of the animal house at NCBS: On studying at the University of Agricultural Sciences in the early 1990s and being oblivious to the construction of a new Centre for biological sciences on his university campus.
mmjohri_seaweed-tifr-shores-1969_RESEARCH-PROCESS
Man Mohan Johri, retired faculty member from TIFR: Picking up seaweed off the shores of TIFR for his early research in the late 1960s.
mmjohri_NCBS-move-MBU-tussle_INSTTN-SPACE
Man Mohan Johri, retired faculty member from TIFR: Reflections on the start of NCBS, the conversations at the molecular biology unit and figuring out whether one makes the move to Bangalore.
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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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MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: Early work with M. Udayakumar, a faculty member at the University of Agricultural Sciences, and, today, on drought tolerant rice.
Mathew_sinX-biochemistry_EDUCATION-KNOWLEDGE
MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: Thoughts on the biochemistry course that he and Jayant Udgaonkar have taught at NCBS almost since the beginning of the Centre.
mathew_paper-writing_RESEARCH-PROCESS
MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: Comparing how papers are written today and in the early days, and possible reasons for the differences.
Mathew_IIT-IISc_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: Reflections on early education and figuring out what direction to take his life in.
mathew_IISc-reln-grant-money_INSTTN-BUILD
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.
mathew_expt-ephysiology-rig_EDUCATION-KNOWLEDGE
MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: On selection of students, and, for instance, finding people suitable for particulars of working with an electrophysiology rig.
mathew_central-question-holy-grail_RESEARCH-QUERY-TOOL
MK Mathew, faculty member at NCBS: On the drive that having a central question in research offers in one's scientific career.
maithreyi_veronica-memory_EDUCATION-MENTOR
Maithreyi Narasimha, faculty member at TIFR: On the influence of Veronica Rodrigues when she joined as a young faculty at TIFR.
Madhumala_VR-labnote-hire_EDUCATION-MENTOR
KS Madhumala, post doctoral researcher at NCBS: Reflections on maintaining lab notes and why she felt she got hired as a student.
Madhumala_Smell-explain_RESEARCH-QUERY
KS Madhumala, post doctoral researcher at NCBS: Explaining the broader questions that drive her research and the field of olfactory behaviour.