It's dinnertime, and the smell of delicious food makes your tummy rumble. However, it's dark because of a powercut and you can't see very clearly. What do you do? Raise your head, sniff, and follow the delectable smells to where the food is? Or should you just take a guess and peek into the kitchen, or the dining room or the veranda, which are the likeliest places for dinner to be served?

Mimicry: the art or practice of imitating something.

NCBS is pleased to welcome Hiyaa Ghosh as faculty.

Hiyaa received her doctoral degree from the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, USA. She later joined Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA, for her postdoctoral studies, where she focused on the transcriptional regulation of immune cell development.

When a female moth decides she is ready to mate, she sends out a leading signal - a chemical cocktail that makes male moths drop everything and fly toward her, sometimes from over a kilometre away.

Scientists at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) have gained new insights into the flying mechanisms of the fruit fly by studying the inner workings of this organism. Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as the fruit fly, is a model organism in bioscience research because of its short life span and amenability to genetic manipulation.