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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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Reading popular literature helps build disciplinary literacy - An example from conservation science
Andrea Phillott
Andrea D. Phillott, Professor in Environmental Studies, teaches Conservation Biology, Ecology, and Environmental Studies at FLAME University, Pune. In this article, she writes about an innovative approach she has followed to develop disciplinary literacy in her students viz., assigning them readings from popular literature, both fiction and non-fiction, pertaining to conservation science.
Posted on Jan 27, 2020 in Ecology, Conservation Biology & Undergraduate
‘Four-Generations’ of scientists discuss undergraduate research in India
Smita Zinjarde, Karishma Kaushik, Snehal Kadam & Rupanwita Majumder
The need for exposing undergraduate students to research and providing them with training in research-oriented scientific thought has been felt for quite some time in India. In this article, four generations of Indian scientists come together to discuss the present status of the undergraduate research ecosystem in India, the changes that have taken place over the last few decades, and the road ahead.
Posted on Jan 20, 2020 in Teaching & Undergraduate

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The Machine Learning research revolution
Sumeet Kulkarni
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks - these words have become a part of our day-to-day lexicon over the last few years. Scientists throughout India have started employing machine learning techniques in fields as diverse as biomedical diagnostics and wildlife conservation. In this article, we explore the critical question - Why now? Why has the machine learning boom waited until this last decade to come into its own?
Posted on Jan 22, 2020 in Research
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

Indian Scenario Older →

Science Technology and Innovation (STI) Policies in India: a Flashback
Aditya Kaushik, B. Chagun Basha & Lakshmi Ganesan
Four major policies have been implemented since independence namely, Scientific Policy Resolution (SPR 1958), Technology Policy Statement 1983 (SPR 1958), Science and Technology Policy 2003 (STP 2003), and Science Technology Innovation Policy 2013 (STIP 2013), this article will attempt to give a retrospective on how the STI ecosystem that we see today came into being.
Posted on Jan 02, 2020
Mental Health Fiesta at New Delhi
Hina Lateef Nizami
On 4 October 2019, the Mental Health Foundation (India) and Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, organised a Mental Health Fiesta. Hina Lateef Nizami, who attended the Fiesta, writes about what set this event apart from other mental health awareness sessions.
Posted on Dec 26, 2019 in Mental Health

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The circle of trust and mentoring in a YI’s journey
Sudhir Ranganath
Sudhir Ranganath is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Siddaganga Institute of Technology (SIT). He is one of the Young Investigators selected to attend YIM 2020 in Mahabalipuram. In this invited article, he talks about the role his mentors, collaborators, and scientific network have played in facilitating the process of setting up his lab.
Posted on Feb 11, 2020 in Career Development, Young Investigators & Mentorship
Establishing and maintaining collaborations internationally
Jagadis Gupta Kapuganti
Jagadis Gupta Kapuganti is Scientist V at National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi. He is one of the Young Investigators selected to attend YIM 2020 in Mahabalipuram. In this invited article, he writes about various strategies and ideas that have helped him establish fruitful national and international collaborations.
Posted on Feb 10, 2020 in Young Investigators & Networking and Collaboration

Opinion Older →

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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How has YIM impacted your scientific journey? (Part 2)
Shreya Ghosh
Since their inception in 2009, the Young Investigators’ Meetings (YIMs) have been bringing together bright young researchers on a dedicated platform for networking, collaboration and mentorship. With YIM 2020 just around the corner, we decided to look up some of the past attendees and ask them about the impact that YIMs have had on their scientific journeys. This is the second of two articles compiling their stories.
Posted on Feb 14, 2020 in YIM & Young Investigators
How has YIM impacted your scientific journey? (Part 1)
Shreya Ghosh
Since their inception in 2009, the Young Investigators’ Meetings (YIMs) have been bringing together bright young researchers on a dedicated platform for networking, collaboration and mentorship. With YIM 2020 just around the corner, we decided to look up some of the past attendees and ask them about the impact that YIMs have had on their scientific journeys. This is the first of two articles compiling their stories.
Posted on Feb 14, 2020 in YIM & Young Investigators

PhD Cafe Older →

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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