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The lab notebook of KS Madhumala, a post doctoral researcher at NCBS. Madhumala was a student of Veronica Rodrigues and feels she may have been taken on as a research fellow before her PhD at NCBS partly because of how she kept notes in her book.
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The lab notebook of KS Madhumala, a post doctoral researcher at NCBS. Madhumala was a student of Veronica Rodrigues and in her audio excerpt, she discusses how she may have been taken on as a research fellow at NCBS partly because of her lab notes.
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"Science and the Art of Detection". An article written by Gaiti Hasan, a faculty member at NCBS, in the book, "Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India".
Lilavati_128-131_3.pdf
"Science and the Art of Detection". An article written by Gaiti Hasan, a faculty member at NCBS, in the book, "Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India".
Lilavati_128-131_2.pdf
"Science and the Art of Detection". An article written by Gaiti Hasan, a faculty member at NCBS, in the book, "Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India".
Lilavati_128-131_1.pdf
"Science and the Art of Detection". An article written by Gaiti Hasan, a faculty member at NCBS, in the book, "Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India".
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A portion of KS Krishnan's bookshelf in his office at NCBS, giving a sample of his diverse interests.
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KS Krishnan's office at NCBS. On the left is a modified inebriometer, which he made to study anesthetics in Drosophila.
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H Krishnamurthy, scientific officer and head of imaging/cytometry, NCBS: Narrating interactions with school students who come to NCBS and the exposure to science early in their lives.
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H Krishnamurthy, scientific officer and head of imaging/cytometry, NCBS: On pushing his technical staff to enter into degree programs while working.
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H Krishnamurthy, scientific officer and head of imaging/cytometry, NCBS: On pushing his technical staff to enter into degree programs while working.
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Krishanu Ray, faculty member and former PhD student at TIFR: On the idea of autonomy for research, with a comparison of TIFR's Department of Biological Sciences and NCBS.
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Krishanu Ray, faculty member and former PhD student at TIFR: Memories of his PhD interview at TIFR, and comparing it to interviews today
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Krishanu Ray, faculty member and former PhD student at TIFR: His perspective on the rich, intellectual environment in olfactory behaviour of Drosophila at TIFR, and how it did not go the extra step it could have.
kaleem_TIFR-brat-conference-room-study_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
Kaleem Siddiqi, faculty member at McGill University: Memories of a childhood in the 1970s when he and his sister used the TIFR molecular biology unit conference room as a personal study space since it was sparsely used.
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Kaleem Siddiqi, faculty member at McGill University: Memories of growing up in the TIFR campus and the way house work was split up at the homes of the TIFR scientists, including his own.
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Kaleem Siddiqi, computer sciences faculty member at McGill University: Reflecting on a childhood in the TIFR campus, and reaching out to his father, Obaid Siddiqi, with problems in mathematics.
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Kaleem Siddiqi, faculty member at McGill University: His perspective on the effect his parents' move from Bombay to Bangalore had on Asiya Siddiqi's professional work as a historian.
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Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: On his group's work with industry partners in customising and developing tools for basic research questions, which then become standard products in the field.
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Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: The thought process prior to joining NCBS in the mid 1990s, the intense persuasion from NCBS and the immediate aftermath upon landing in Bangalore.
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Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: On a projected area of research, to bridge the scales of biology through an intricate understanding of information flow in organisms.
jitu_membrane-cricket_PEOPLE-ORIGIN.mp3
Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: Reflections from early childhood, family history and a personal and serious interest in cricket.
jitu_madan-theory_RESEARCH-SHIFT
Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: On cementing the relationship between cell biology and theoretical work, with a decade-plus collaboration.
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Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: His perspective on the sweet spot that NCBS is in today, with an ability to grow with thought and deliberation.
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Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: On his projections for the potential to leverage being in India for future areas of research for NCBS.
jitu_fluorofor-paper-backstory-rajat-pancho_RESEARCH-PROCESS
Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: The back story to his group's field-altering 1998 Nature paper, "GPI-anchored proteins are organized in submicron domains at the cell surface",…
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Satyajit Mayor, faculty member and current director, NCBS: On the effect of institution building and administration on scientific work.
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Sudhanshu Jha, ex director of TIFR: On his memories of conversations with Obaid Siddiqi in TIFR's West Canteen in the 1970s. And reliving the talks on needing a space for biology
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Sudhanshu Jha, ex director of TIFR: On Homi Bhabha's administrative skills and the need to follow rules and process as an institution scales.
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Jeevaraju, staff member in the lab kitchen: The move to NCBS in 1992, the reasons for staying and his memories of the early days at the TIFR Centre.
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Jayant Udgaonkar, faculty member at NCBS: On his concern regarding faculty inbreeding in research institutes and his own effort to prevent it at NCBS.
jayant_InStem-dean-resign-adhoc_GROWTH-SCALING
Jayant Udgaonkar, faculty member at NCBS: On why he resigned as dean, and his concern about the "ad-hoc" measures implemented across campus
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Jayant Udgaonkar, faculty member at NCBS: On the actual name for NCBS, and his memories of changing the name to make it less of a mouthful.
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Jayant Udgaonkar, faculty member at NCBS: On the need for coursework and his push to build an academic programme (with MK Mathew) at NCBS
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Jayant Udgaonkar, faculty member at NCBS: On the importance of camaraderie in the early years of NCBS.
jayant_areas-sketch-1992_RESEARCH-SHIFT
Jayant Udgaonkar, faculty member at NCBS: On the September 1992 sketch looking at the different areas of research for NCBS
jayant_angry-letter-background_INSTTN-PAPER
Jayant Udgaonkar, faculty member at NCBS: On writing an angry letter to the then director of TIFR, after facing many delays in the setup of NCBS
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The Dolna creche had humble beginnings at NCBS after R. Sowdhamini joined in the late 1990s. Sowdhamini was the first female faculty hire with a young child. There were other kids of a similar age group among the children of the male faculty. But the…
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Aditi Pophale at work in the Lakshadweep Archipelago in 2015. The MSc Wildlife program started in 2003 with an aim of teaching and conducting "evidence-based conservation" in India. Soon after, NCBS hired faculty in the ecology and evolution areas of…
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Cover of "Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of India". 2008.
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Ramachandran, a student of Jayant Udgaonkar, at the fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) system for analyzing proteins. c 1995
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Students of Jayant Udgaonkar at the TIFR Centre. From left: Vishwas Agashe, Aparna Kaul, Juhi, Ramachandra. c 1996
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Sumita Anant (left) and Sunanda, students of K VijayRaghavan, at the microscope, TIFR Centre.
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BR Krishan, an NCBS student in the mid 1990s, walking through the corridors of the TIFR Centre, IISc.
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Karishma, an NCBS student, at the electrophysiology rig at the TIFR Centre, IISc. c 1996
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Karishma, an NCBS student, at the electrophysiology rig at the TIFR Centre, IISc.
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The old office for Obaid Siddiqi at the TIFR Molecular Biology Unit. It is now home to Krishanu Ray's fly lab.
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A current view of one of the fly labs at the Department of Biological Sciences at TIFR, some of the original lab spaces for the faculty that eventually moved to NCBS.
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The open spaces at the TIFR Centre, IISc, where NCBS started off before it moved to the current campus.
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The “Old TIFR building” that housed the TIFR group at IISc has gone through many incarnations. After TIFR moved out, it housed the IISc Archives. It’s now home to various IISc labs, including the Centre for Neuroscience. As seen in this image…