Dr Mousumi Baruah, post-doctoral researcher from Dr Pratik Kumar's lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences(NCBS), Bengaluru, had been awarded the National Post Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF) by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), India

When Project Tiger was launched in 1973, efforts to carve out safe havens for tigers took on a new urgency.

Sikkim Express: Nosang explores collaboration with NCBS Bengaluru for Sikkim’s butterfly experts

A walk through a forest can be a bewildering experience. The whole forest appears to be running wild with insects of varied colours, hues and behaviours. Many of these traits appear to be deployed in defense against visually-hunting predators such as birds and lizards. Evolutionary biologists have long puzzled over the factors that determine when animals evolve to deter predators either through striking visual displays or by hiding in plain sight (i.e., camouflage).

Researchers find environmental factors such as calcium, pH ccan dictate which turn cancer takes

Prof Mahesh Sankaran, faculty at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru was awarded the J.C. Bose Grant 2025, by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation for the project titled:"Grasslands in the Anthropocene: global change impacts on grassland dynamics in the Indian subcontinent."

Raman Kaushik, graduate student from Dr Raj Ladher's lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences(NCBS), Bengaluru, had been awarded the Zeeshan Khan Memorial 2025 Award (Runner-up) for the Best Paper published using Light Microscopy in India, at the Bangalore Microscopy Course held from 14-21 September, 2025 at NCBS.

Sreepadmanabh M., graduate student of Dr Tapomoy Bhattacharjee at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru is elected as co-chair for the 2027 Soft Condensed Matter Physics Gordon Research Seminar. (GRS)

He also delivered an invited talk at this year's GRS on how physical environments actively regulate biological growth.