The Infosys Prize awardees this year were felicitated on 7 January, 2023. They represent the different disciplines of Engineering and Computer Science, Humanities, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. The awardees have been recognised and lauded for extraordinary contributions in their respective fields.
Seven teams of scientists will take science outside labs to students with the goal of facilitating scientific temper and curiosity. With funding support and mentoring by the third IndiaBioscience Outreach Grant, these initiatives are poised to create engaging scientific content - comics, videos, virtual labs, and much more.
The year 2022 was a time of gravitating towards the familiar and navigating the coexistence of in-person and virtual interactions. For IndiaBioscience, this year was full of new initiatives and collaborations, as well as the opportunity to reach out to diverse digital communities. In this article, Shantala Hari Dass, Executive Director, IndiaBioscience, reflects on what this year has meant for IndiaBioscience.
In the journey towards a PhD degree, a research scholar develops not only subject knowledge and technical skills, but also a number of other skills that can be valuable for a wide range of career paths. This article showcases some of these 'transferable' skills.
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Venkat Srinivasan is an archivist at the Archives at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bengaluru, India. The Archives at NCBS is a public collecting space for the history of contemporary biology in India.
A rewind podcast with hand-picked segments from the five individual episodes featuring stalwarts in life sciences L S Shashidhara, Deepanwita Chattopadhyay, Sanjay Mishra, Bimalendu B Nath, and Manju Bansal.
In this podcast of Radio PDF, we talked to a postdoctoral researcher Laasya Samhita from NCBS Bangalore.
Ignite Life Science Foundation, Cactus Communications, and IndiaBioscience have come together to co-host this live online event. In a relaxed and conversational format, the interlocutor for each session will uncover the background story of the work and life of an eminent scientist.
The 6th conversation of this series is with a well-known American researcher, author, speaker, and consultant James J. Collins who is considered the “Father of Synthetic Biology”.
Enjoy this talk by Dr. Yvon Le Maho, an ecophysiologist talking about the new technologies used to investigate Antarctic penguins without disturbing their habitats. Renuka Badhe, Executive Secretary of the European Polar Board, is moderating the session.
Ignite Life Science Foundation, Cactus Communications, and IndiaBioscience have come together to co-host this live online event. In a relaxed and conversational format, the interlocutor for each session will uncover the background story of the work and life of an eminent scientist.
The guest of the fifth event in the series is Prabhavathi Fernandes. She is the Chairperson of the National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB), US and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP).
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The PhD Programme in Biological and Life Sciences at the School of Arts and Sciences of Ahmedabad University provides a lively exchange with experts from across the academic disciplines and various global partnerships, and the programme grants access to state-of-the-artlaboratories. …
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Application for support to undertake research training during the doctoral research in Overseas Universities on a competitive mode is sought from eligible researchers. To build national capacity in frontier areas of Science and Engineering, which are of interest to India by …
The Pratiksha Trust, a charitable organization, founded by Dr. Kris Gopalakrishnan (Chairman, Axilor Ventures and Co-Founder, Infosys) and Mrs. Sudha Gopalakrishnan, has embarked on an exemplary initiative to fully fund EMSTAR (Extra-Mural Support for Transformational Aging Brain Research).
The EMSTAR program …
An e-booklet introducing a whole range of career options available to students of science in India
iBiology offers free biology videos from the world's leading scientists, with talks by over 25 Nobel laureates. It also offers free online courses that help researchers do good science and enhance career and professional development