The inception of IndiaBioscience took place to knit together life science investigators across the country through Young Investigators Meetings (YIMs). The first YIM took place back in 2009. We are extremely proud to be hosting the fourteenth YIM from 4 - 6 May, 2022. While we have come a long way since the first YIM, community building has continued to be our motto.
We have also been highlighting science outreach efforts in India by means of articles published on our website. Growing the scope and width of our activities with respect to outreach and community engagement and building, we are also delighted to launch a dedicated community engagement and outreach page on IndiaBioscience website.
This page will be a repository for practitioners (independent faculty, students, science communicators, and educators) and organisations who are keen or involved to carry out science outreach and public engagement in India. The page will highlightlight science outreach initiatives in India, stories behind these initiatives, skill-building sessions/activities for science outreach, resources, grants, job openings relevant to community engagement and science outreach. We invite you to engage with us to build a stronger outreach community.
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Season 2 of FundaySunday kickstarts with an online talk by Mohit Kumar Jolly, Assistant Professor at the Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering (BSSE) at IISc Bangalore. In this talk, he will share his team's journey in getting an answer to the question 'How do cancer cells switch their states, and how can we prevent them from doing so?'. Jolly addresses this by doing exactly what cancer cells are great at: accepting identity crisis (working across many disciplines) and doing improv (spontaneous appropriate response to one’s environment).
On 24 April, Suchibrata Borah, Program Manager - Digital Initiatives, was invited to a Flagship Event named 'PRAYOJAN' on 'Post-PhD: Research, Academia, and Industry Opportunities, Science Journalism, Grant Writing and Networking' organised by the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS).
Suchibrata talked about her opportunities in science communication and IndiaBioscience.
IndiaBioscience has recently launched a nationwide survey to assess the current status of independent life science researchers in India and to create actionable insights about the same. In this article, we highlight the intent and expected outcomes of the survey. We also answer common queries related to the survey. The survey can be accessed here.
In the fifth article as part of community voices for international grants and fellowships, Shubham shares the to dos, tips and tricks for a successful HFSP application. Shubham is an awardee of 2022 HFSP long term postdoctoral fellowship.
In the first article of our JOYI 2022 series, leading up to YIM 2022, Mohit Kumar Jolly shares his experiences in setting up the Cancer Systems Biology Laboratory in the Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
In this episode, we talk to Abhigyan Arun, CEO of TNQ Technologies, a publishing technology, and service company headquartered in Chennai, India. Abhi has served as the CEO at TNQ Technologies since October 2016. Abhi’s focus has been on aligning the business, technology, and product strategy of TNQ to the demanding needs of the publishing industry. In this episode, Abhi talks about his career journey, personal and professional growth, journey with TNQ, and vision for TNQ.
We bring to you conversations with postdoctoral fellows in India wherein they will talk about their research, career, and some beyond the obvious details about the postdoctoral community in India.
The first series of ‘Radio PDF’ features Dhananjay Chaturvedi, Laasya Samhita, Mithu Baidya, and Nimita Pandey from NCBS Bengaluru, IIT Kanpur, and DST CPR-IISc Bengaluru respectively.
If you are a postdoc in India and would like to be a part of this podcast series, drop us a note at IndiaBiospeaks@indiabioscience.org.!
Experiments and practical lab work, considered indispensable for training in biology, came to a standstill when educational institutions and laboratories shut down in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, researcher and educator Lakshmy Ramakrishnan describes how Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, could offer students exposure akin to lab work, even looking beyond the pandemic.
COMMUNITY BUILDING
We continue to update this interactive map/table showing the geo-distribution of life science researchers in India. The data that populates this resource is collected from a survey among the life scientists in India and published here with their informed consent. If you are a life scientist in India and if you would like to be featured on this database, please fill this form.
Every year the postdoc community at NCBS and inStem (PDFA) offers 'Lecture Series in Advanced Biology' for undergraduate students.
The ninth lecture series (virtual) this year is on 'Feedback systems in biology' (29th May-24th July 2022). The discussion will be on how feedback control is essential in biology to maintain homeostasis at different scales.
