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Sattva Medtech: measuring fetal heart rate more easily and reliably
Urvashi Bhattacharyya
Posted on in Health & Medicine, Intellectual Property, Research, Industry
Cyclops: the med-tech startup for diagnosis of dizziness and balance disorders
Urvashi Bhattacharyya
The making of Sohum: a device for screening hearing impairment in newborns
Urvashi Bhattacharyya
Posted on in Health & Medicine, Intellectual Property, Research, Industry
Pushing for medical innovation in India
Urvashi Bhattacharyya
What if you choose to ignore IF (impact factor)?
Manupriya
Indian Scenario Older →
YIM at 10 years: and thoughts on why India’s research program should follow a different path from the USA
IndiaBioscience board member Ron Vale, shares how the Young Investigator Meeting came into being and some thoughts on why India should adopt a research model different from the west to be able to do research that is truly relevant to India.
Posted on in Other, Career Development & YIM
Saving Bengaluru’s Lakes
Is The Time Right For Deep-Science Driven Entrepreneurship In India?
Taslimarif Saiyed
Starting Up at the Grassroots
Swati Subodh
Nurturing innovation in science institutes
S Ramaswamy
Is there a secret recipe for successful science-entrepreneurship?
Praveen Vemula
Making Indian science more open and accessible
Manupriya
Education Older →
What is research?
Vidya, an educator at Bhavan's Vivekanand College, Hyderabad presents a fresh perspective on what activities constitute "research". She advocates that not all research requires lab work, expensive reagents and high end instruments.
Posted on in Other, Teaching, Undergraduate & Research
The triangle connect: the three levels to teaching meiosis
The concept of meiosis can be taught at multiple levels for a holistic understanding. Wright et al discuss three such levels, forming the vertices of the Johnstone's triangle.
Posted on in Cell Biology, Genetics, Biology, Teaching, Undergraduate & Research
Making laboratory practicals engaging, relevant and effective
Anil Kumar Challa
Instalment 3: "One teaching technique that made a difference..."
Lata Shahani
Second instalment: “One teaching technique that made a difference in my class…”
Ranjana Agrawal & Aashutosh Mule
"One teaching technique that made a difference in my class..."
Sarita Kumar & Sushama Yermal
Plagiarism in Indian education: is it permitted misconduct or ignorance?
Hema Ramachandran, Divya Sinha & Medha Rajadhyaksha
Exploring Science Older →
Curiosity, crystals, cockroaches
Harini Barath
Posted on in Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Research
Biomaterials research in India: from tissue regeneration to drug targeting technology
Anjali Vaidya
Open Source Synthetic Biology for (Not Just) Undergraduates
Chaitanya Athale
Posted on in Biotechnology, Personal Experience, Undergraduate, Event
Celebrating a hundred years of bacteriophages
Anusha Krishnan
Discoveries and disputes: the beginnings of bacteriophage research
Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee
Opinion Older →
Untangling the mesh: Emerging field of circuit neuroscience and India
Word of advice from a consultant for professional development for college faculty
Perspective on combining teaching and research in Indian academic institutions: the need of the hour
Sreemoyee Chatterjee
Interview: Shubha Tole talks about tracks only women scientists navigate
Shaifali Agarwal
Posted on in Women in Science, Personal Experience, Mentorship
Originality in scientific writing: Avoiding the slippery slope of plagiarism
Chaitanya Athale
The Secret to Getting the Postdoc You Want
Martin Chalfie
Taking the “me” out of mentorship
Shubha Tole
@IndiaBioscience Older →
YIM 2018: taking the pulse of biology in India
Brachistochrone: A metaphor for life and science
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.
Posted on in Health & Medicine, Nanotechnology, Personal Experience, YIM & Research
YIM 2017- What do the organisers say?
Manupriya
Posted on in Other, Career Development, Personal Experience, YIM
Highlights from the second Young Investigators' Meeting in Cambridge, UK
Abhijit Das & Tanweer Hussain
Posted on in Other, Life Sciences, Career Development, Event, YIM
Foldscope events in India: the Northeast photoblog
Nandini Rajamani
Posted on in Microbiology, Ecology, Cell Biology, Teaching, Outreach, Event
From the Young Investigators' Meeting 2016: YI shorts
Harini Barath
Posted on in YIM, Advice, Job Search
From the Young Investigators' Meeting 2016: PDF Shorts
Harini Barath
Journey of a YI Older →
Funding Challenges in Research
Gitanjali Yadav is a Scientist at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi. She is also a Lecturer at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, as one of the first appointees of a Joint Deputation Program between India and the U.K. She attended YIM 2016 as a Young Investigator. In this invited piece, she talks about the perennial hurdle of getting, and sustaining funds for research.
Finding my foothold in academia
Anindita Bhadra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Science, IISER, Kolkata. She attended YIM 2015 as a YI. In this invited post she writes about her long-drawn struggle to get a permanent faculty position at her institute.
Posted on in Other, Women in Science, Personal Experience & Job Search
Re-search Re-sumed
Arpita Mukhopadhyay
Posted on in Other, Women in Science, Personal Experience, YIM
A biologist lost in translation eventually finds a common language
Madhulika Dixit
Mentoring the ‘social’ researcher
Aditi Bhattacharya
Patients to pipettes: A journey towards lab research
Sahadev Shankarappa
Being a young researcher, teacher, and clerk at the same time
Vijay Kothari
Posted on in Other, Personal Experience, YIM, Young Investigators