Niranjan Subbarao, a co-founder at Cyclops MedTech explains why is it important to accurately diagnose balance disorders and how their startup is helping solve this problem.
Nitin Sisodia, founder of Sohum Innovation Labs talks about building a company that hopes to make hearing screening available to every newborn in India.
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Posted on in Health & Medicine, Career Development, Personal Experience
First instalment in our new series aimed at sharing experiences of new teaching techniques our readers have tried in their classrooms.
Are students aware it is wrong to plagiarise? Or do they carry on thinking it’s allowed. We conducted a survey at Sophia College, Mumbai, to find out.
Posted on in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Environmental Sciences, Teaching
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.
A group of scientists—past and present members of Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit of JNCASR—get vocal about a conceptual debate in evolutionary biology.
Posted on in Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Research
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India has tremendous potential and can contribute in a variety of ways to research in circuit neuroscience, writes Arnab Barik, postdoctoral researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA.
Pedagogical training, while a must for school teachers, is not so for college and university faculty. What options are available for interested college faculty to enhance their teaching skills - Sushama Yermal discusses..
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In an interesting and entertaining talk today at YIM 2017, Aravind Rengan, an assistant professor at IIT Hyderabad, talked about his research. Below are excerpts from an subsequent interview with IndiaBioscience.
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Deepa Subramanyam, Praveen Vemula, Smita Jain, Sudha Rajamani and Sumit Biswas- the organisers of YIM 2017 share their YIM story
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Aravindhan Vivekanandhan is an assistant professor at Dr. ALM PG Institute of Basic Medical sciences, Department of Genetics, University of Madras. He attended YIM 2015 as a YI. In this guest post, he talks about his path to finding the right research question.
Roop Mallik is a Professor at Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. He attended YIM 2011 as a YI. In this invited piece, he writes about dealing with self-doubt as a young PI.
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