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10 Leaders, 10 Questions: Shahid Jameel
Shreya Ghosh
Shahid Jameel, Chief Executive Officer of The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance, has been active in science policy and administration for over two decades. He headed the Virology group at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, for 25 years. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award and the BM Birla Science Prize in Biology. In this interview, he speaks to IndiaBioscience about his thoughts on leadership.
Posted on Aug 26, 2019 in Advice & Leadership
Strengthen biology research and education to address 21st century problems
Shreya Ghosh
LS Shashidhara is currently a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Ashoka University and is on lien from IISER Pune. He was recently elected the President of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS). In this interview with IndiaBioscience, he discusses IUBS’s activities and the need for scientists to collaborate on a global level to address the pressing problems of the day.
Posted on Aug 07, 2019 in Policy, Teaching & Networking and Collaboration

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Course-based undergraduate research experience: students become scientists
Yashika Kapoor
Undergraduate research experience has the potential to suit the needs of learners. A recent study analyses the attitudinal outcomes of college students taking up bench and digital research. Termed Course-based Research Experience or CURE, this pedagogical approach takes the student through a journey of discovery-via-inquiry.
Posted on Aug 29, 2019 in Teaching, Undergraduate & Research
Talk with teachers: contemporary teaching will have to rely on teacher networks
Aditi Jain
M.M. Chaturvedi, senior faculty at the Delhi University shares his opinion on Draft National Education Policy 2019. He has been involved in the development of Cluster Innovation Centre. He talks about the role that teacher networks could play in contemporary education.
Posted on Aug 14, 2019 in Teaching, Personal Experience & Undergraduate

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Magnetic Nanomotors: “nano-voyagers” inside cells
Divya Sriram
In this next article in our series on interdisciplinarity, we explore how a physicist and biologist duo (Ambarish Ghosh, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and Deepak Saini, Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, IISc, Bangalore) combined their expertise to create a nanomotor system that can be precisely and accurately manoeuvred inside biological cells.
Posted on Nov 09, 2018 in Biophysics, Research & Interdisciplinarity
How do we actually “pay” attention?
Reeteka Sud
In a recently published study, Sridharan et al. developed a model that explains why it is that when superior colliculus in the brain goes offline, that the ability to use incoming sensory information to make behavioural decisions is severely compromised.
Posted on Jul 25, 2017 in Neuroscience

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Understanding the Science Policy Ecosystem in India
B. Chagun Basha
What is Science Policy? How are Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policies made in India? Is there an institutional mechanism for STI policymaking? Who are the players involved in the STI policy process? How does evidence flow into this process? This article, as the first in the Science Policy 101 series, attempts to answer, think-through, and discuss these questions.
Posted on Oct 29, 2019 in Policy
Sowing the seeds of a long-term mental health study in an Indian population
Shantala Hari Dass
In addition to limited awareness about mental health in the general populace, a scarcity of large-scale clinical investigations has also been holding back mental health research in India. Recently, three Bengaluru-based research institutions have joined hands for a study that will last two decades and create an extensive resource base of scientific information related to mental illnesses in an Indian population.
Posted on Oct 25, 2019 in Neuroscience, Database/Resource & Mental Health

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My ‘INSPIRE’d Journey
Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan
Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan is an EMBO Young Investigator and a Wellcome Trust/DBT-India Alliance Intermediate Fellow. She attended YIM2014 as a post-doctoral fellow (PDF) and is an organiser for the upcoming YIM2020. In this invited article, she writes about her experience of transitioning from a DST-INSPIRE faculty fellow to an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Posted on Nov 14, 2019 in Career Development, Personal Experience & Young Investigators
Bedside to benchside and back
Charanya Ramachandran
Charanya Ramachandran is a Scientist at the Sudhakar and Sreekanth Ravi Stem Cell Biology Laboratory at LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. In this invited article, she writes about her journey from the clinic to the laboratory and back, and some important lessons learned along the way.
Posted on May 13, 2019 in Health & Medicine, Advice, Research & Young Investigators

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Speaking up: Ending the culture of silence
Zill-e-Anam
In this next article in our series on mental health, Zill-e-Anam discusses the culture of silence that prevents many researchers and students from discussing their mental health issues, thus compounding the problem and delaying treatment for those who need it the most.
Posted on Nov 05, 2019 in Other & Mental Health
Wake up academia, it’s a brand new mental health patient
Debdutta Paul
We are running a series of articles focused on understanding the interaction between mental illnesses and academic life, and the need for greater awareness and research into the same. Next in this series, Debdutta draws insights from his own experiences in graduate school to suggest what institutions and individuals can do to improve mental health conditions within academic spaces.
Posted on Oct 16, 2019 in Mental Health

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Regional Young Investigator Meeting reaches the nation’s capital
Aditi Jain
During the 10th Young Investigators' Meeting (YIM), a need was felt for stronger local networks within the Indian scientific fraternity. Following the success of Regional Young Investigators' Meetings in Kolkata and Hyderabad, the third Regional YIM was held in Delhi NCR. The meeting followed the motto - "Unite, collaborate for a better tomorrow" and gathered scientific minds from throughout the National Capital Region.
Posted on Aug 28, 2019 in YIM, Young Investigators & Networking and Collaboration
Regional YIM Kolkata 2019: Some highlights
Smarajit Polley
Following the success of national Young Investigators' Meetings (YIMs) and the first Regional YIM in Hyderabad, the scientific community of Kolkata gathered in Presidency University on 5-6 February, 2019, with the motto: "Together today for a better tomorrow" for the first Kolkata chapter of Regional YIMs.
Posted on Aug 14, 2019 in YIM, Young Investigators & Networking and Collaboration

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An Introvert’s Guide to Networking
Vanshika Singh
Vanshika Singh is a PhD student at the National Centre for Brain Research (NBRC), Manesar. In this next article in our PhD Cafe series, she writes about why networking can be challenging for an introverted graduate student and the strategies that one can employ to derive the benefits of networking while remaining true to their personality.
Posted on Oct 04, 2019 in Networking and Collaboration
Do’s and Don’ts for a healthy student-advisor relationship
Parul Anup
Parul Anup recently completed her PhD from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. In this next article in our PhD Cafe series, she talks about the expectations that graduate students and Principal Investigators (PIs) have from each other, and how keeping these in mind can help in building a healthy mentor-mentee relationship.
Posted on Sep 26, 2019 in Advice & Mentorship

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