The 17th Young Investigators’ Meeting (YIM) is coming to Agra, Uttar Pradesh, from 3 to 7 March 2025, in partnership with Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (SNIoE). We interacted with the YIM 2025 organisers – Karishma S Kaushik, IndiaBioscience; Karthick Balasubramanian, Agharkar Research Institute, Pune; Rohini Garg and Anil Kumar Challa from the Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence, Greater Noida – to catch a glimpse of what goes into organising yet another power-packed edition of YIM.

At the 16th Young Investigators’ Meeting (YIM 2024) in Bhopal, IndiaBioscience asked representatives from a diverse range of institutions and universities across India some quick questions about faculty hiring. Let’s take a look at their responses!

In this new series, leading up to YIM 2024, researchers who have attended YIMs from the past tell us about what it was like for them back then, what they took away from the experience, how things have changed, their ideas for future YIMs, and tips for the newest generation of life scientists gearing up for their first meeting. Dhiraj Bhatia is a DNA nanotechnologist at Indian Institute of Technology in Gandhinagar. In this interview, he shares his YIM experience with Nandita Jayaraj.

In this new series, leading up to YIM 2024, researchers who have attended YIMs from the past tell us about what it was like for them back then, what they took away from the experience, how things have changed, their ideas for future YIMs, and tips for the newest generation of life scientists gearing up for their first meeting. Aravindhan Vivekanandhan is an immunologist at University of Madras in Chennai. In this interview, he shares his YIM experience with Nandita Jayaraj.

The 16th Young Investigators’ Meeting (YIM 2024) is scheduled to take place from 11 to 15 March 2024 in central India at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. We interviewed the YIM 2024 organisers: Karishma Kaushik, IndiaBioscience; Lipi Thukral, IGIB, New Delhi; Ragothaman M. Yennamalli, SASTRA Deemed to be University; Varun Chaudhary, IISER Bhopal; and the IndiaBioscience team. We asked them a few questions about the upcoming meeting, and here is what they had to say.