In addition to its flagship event, the Young Investigator Meeting (YIM) heard each year, IndiaBioscience aims to keep conversations with, and discussions relevant to Young Investigators’ ongoing through the year via the webinar series ‘YI Huddle: A discussion series for Young Investigators’ in India’.
YI Huddle is structured to take a YI on a journey that starts with initiating a research program, understanding grants and financials, research documentation, and academic publishing, and gradually move to topics beyond the standard academic structure such as industry partnerships, clinical collaborations, and leveraging incubation parks, and finally, expand the YIs view of doing science in India via discussions on science policy and citizen science.
Importantly, the series will be conducted by YIs (as moderators) in conversation with relevant scientists, faculty, entrepreneurs, policy scientists, and leaders, in a conversational style.
The 4th webinar of the YI Huddle series discussed ‘Navigating Academic Publishing for YIs' with Vinita Gowda (IISER Bhopal), Moumita Koley (DST-CPR, IISc and Tapasya (Delhi University). The discussion focused on APCs, preprints, open access publishing, society journals, and community-driven initiatives that can present the way forward.
The 2nd webinar of YI Huddle featured Vandana Gambhir, Principal Technical Officer (Grants), IISER Pune, and Karishma Kaushik of IndiaBioscience, where they discussed issues faced by researchers while applying for grants and how they can overcome these with the help of different sources, what are the key factors one should keep in mind before applying for any grant.
YI Huddle is structured to take a YI on a journey that starts with initiating a research program, understanding grants and financials, research documentation, and academic publishing, and gradually moves to topics beyond the standard academic structure such as industry partnerships, clinical collaborations, and leveraging incubation parks, and finally, expand the YIs view of doing science in India via discussions on science policy and citizen science.