We are delighted to share that Dr. Anjana Badrinarayanan, faculty member at NCBS–TIFR, has been awarded the Infosys Prize 2025 in Life Sciences.

Dr Deepa Agashe, Associate Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR), Bengaluru, is the recipient of the Rashtriya Vigyan Yuva Puraskar 2025, conferred by the Government of India.

Link to the Announcement: https://awards.gov.in/

Link to Dr Deepa Agashe's lab webpage: https://adaptationlab.in/

Four graduate students from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, won the Best Poster Award at the 9th Asia Chromatin Meet, held from 9-11 October at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune.

1. Nija George (Dr Sabarinathan Radhakrishnan's lab)

2. Surya Sarathi Das (Dr Sabarinathan Radhakrishnan's lab)

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

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.

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."

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.

National Geographic has released a major cover story on the pseu

Swardnadip Ghosh, graduate student from Dr Soumyashree Das's lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences , Bengaluru, recieved The Carl Storm International Diversity Award by Gordon Research Conferences and The DMM Conference Travel Grant by Disease Models & Mechanisms journal by The Company of Biologists, for Participating in The Angiogenesis Gordon Research Conference at Newport, USA.