Piyali Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor at Presidency University, Kolkata. She attended YIM 2014 as a YI. She is also one of the organisers of YIM 2018. In this guest post she shares her thoughts on ways and means of bridging the gap between teachers and students. Needless to say, the process of building these bridges has been an extremely rewarding experience for her.

Prosenjit Mondal is an Assistant Professor, from IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. He attended YIM 2016 as a YI. In this guest post, he shares his tips for better personnel management in laboratories.

Adesh K Saini is a Professor at Center of Research for Himalayan Sustainability and Development at Shoolini University, Solan, Himachal Pradesh. He participated as a PDF in YIM 2011. Here, he shares his views about the importance of collaboration in science.