Prize winning NCBSians

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
Award winner Dr Sanjay Sane

Award winner Dr Sanjay Sane. Courtesy: Krishnapriya Tamma

Finally, we have another reason to believe that everyone is hard at work within the walls at NCBS! Faculty, students and researchers have lit up the world stage and brought back accolades. Here, we present a list of the prize winners from 2008 and 2009. We hope to follow up soon with a list from 2010!

NCBS prize winners

NCBS prize winners. Courtesy: Krishnapriya Tamma

 

Name Award

Jawaid Ahsan

Travel fellowship from EMBL and MARIE CURIE ACTIONS to deliver an invited talk at the 10th International EMBL PhD Student Symposium, Germany (October 2008).

Neha Agrawal

IBRO MBL Travel Fellowship to attend the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting at Washington, DC (May 2008).

Jeevisha Bajaj

International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Travel Award to attend the Annual Meeting of the

ISSCR at Philadelphia, U.S.A. (June 2008) .

Anirban Baral

Best student award for 2008

Mohammed Bin Abu Baker

International Brain Research Organization travel grant and Swiss Society for Neuroscience travel grant to attend FENS meeting (May 2008)
U.S. Bhalla

Merck Teaching Award (2008)

Elected Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (2008)

Elected Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (2009)

 

Dhiraj Bhatia and Shabasna Mehtab

Best Poster award during NCBS Annual talks for the poster titled "Icosahedral DNA nanocapsules".

Debapriyo Chakraborty

Travel grant from the University of Washington to attend "Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics 2008"

held at the University of Washington, USA (2008)

Travel award from American Genetic Association to attend "Next Generation Genome Analysis in

Non-Model Organisms" held at University of Connecticut, USA (June 2009)

Tuhin Subhra Chakraborty

Journal of Cell Science travel grant for a collaborative project with Prof. Jing W Wang,

University of California, USA (August-December 2008).

Sumantra Chattarji

Vision Award, Fragile X Research Foundation (2008)

Editorial Board of “Journal of Neurophysiology” (2008)

Member, International Affairs Committee, Society for Neuroscience (2008)

Associate Editor, "Frontiers in Neuromethods" (2009)

Member, USCRC-IBRO Committee (2009)

Albert Chiang

Travel Awards from CCSTDS and CSIR for attending the 50th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago (March 2009)

Travel grant from CSIR, India and the organizers of the meeting (and the National

Institute of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Grant

for attending the Keystone Symposia meeting on 'Chemical Senses: Receptors and Circuits' held at California, USA (March 2009).

Travel Awards from SfN and IBRO for attending the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience held at Chicago, USA ( October, 2009)

Wellcome Trust- DBT India Alliance Early Career Fellowship (2010-2014)

Ashesh Dhawale

Merck Teaching Assistance Award 2008

Merck student travel award 2008

Sarojini Damodaran award 2008 and Committee for Aid and Education in Neurochemistry (CAEN)

travel fellowship from the International Society for Neurochemistry to visit the lab of Dr. Florin Albeanu,

CSHL, USA for collaborative research project (November 2008 – September 2009)

Gautam Dey

Travel grant from Chalmers University, Sweden to attend the International Conference on Systems Biology,

in Gothenburg, Sweden (August 2008)

Spriha Gogia

Partial travel grant from CSIR, India to attend the American Chemical Society Conference

in Philadelohia, USA (August 2008)
Gaurav Goyal Merck Teaching Assistance Award 2008

Santosh Kumar Jha

Best poster award during NCBS Annual Review Talks (January 2009)

Travel Award by Biophysical Society, USA to present the poster entitled, “Continuous Dissolution

of Structure During the Unfolding of a Small Protein,” at the Biophysical Society 53rd Annual

Meeting held Boston, USA (February – March, 2009).

Adil Ghani Khan Merck Award for Best Publication in 2008

Yamuna Krishnan

Interacademy Panel on International Issues (IAP) and the World Economic Forum as part of a delegation of leading Young Scientists world-wide to attend the Annual Meeting of the New Champions (The Summer Davos) , Tianjin, China. (September 2008).

Joint Faculty member, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental

Research, India (August 2008)

Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Young Scientist Medal (May 2009).

Jitendra Kumar

Travel fellowship by CAEN to visit the laboratory of Dr. Dieter Klopfenstein. DFG research center

molecular physiology of the Brain, Gottingen, Germany (July, 2008)

Sudha Kumari Merck Award for Best Publication (2008)

Satyajit Mayor

Editorial Board, Cell 2008-present

Editorial Board, Traffic, 2005-present

Editorial Board, Biochemica Biophysica Acta, 2008-present

Editorial Board of Reviewers, Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2004-present
Sudip Mondal

Award from Department of Science & Technology, SERC Fast Track Scheme for young scientists for the

project titled 'Engineering PDMS microfluidic devices to study organelle transport and regeration in C.elegans

neurons in vivo (March 2009)

Odity Mukherjee Innovative Young Biotechnologists Award (2009)
Deepak Nair Ramanujan Fellowship from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. (2008)
Urvashi Raheja Travel award from DBT to present poster at SfN, USA, (Oct.2009)
Rajnish Rao

Sarojini Damodaran International Fellowship to attend summer course (Neural Systems and Behaviour)

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA (June-July 2009)

Shilpa Ravinder

Sarojini Damodaran fellowship to attend the "Microelectrode Techniques in Cell Physiology"

workshop held at the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom in Plymouth (September 2008)

Sanjay P. Sane

Ramanujan Fellowship (2009).

Review Editor: Frontiers in Neural Circuits (2009)

The Ramanujan Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology (2009)

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Grant (in collaboration with Dr. Marie Dacke, Lund University, Sweden (2009)

Mahesh Sankaran

Ramalingaswamy Fellowship, Department of Biotechnology, India (2009)

Ramanujam Fellowship, Department of Science & Technology, India (2009)
Kalyan Sinha Best thesis award for 2008-2009
Sonia Sen

DST Travel Grant to attend the Neurofly conference, Germany (2008)

EMBO Short Term Fellowship award for a 3 month lab visit in Switzerland (November 2008).

O. Siddiqi Sir Syed International award for Biological Sciences (2009)
R. Sowdhamini

Visiting Professorship to work in Laboratorie Biologie Genetique Moleculaire (April 2008)

Coordinator for the  Asian Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2010) held in Bangalore, India (January 2010)
Associate Editor of Bioinformation
Editorial Board Member of Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
Principal Investigator of a HFSP Grant (2009-2012)
Awarded a collaborative grant by Human Frontier Science Programme (HFSP) to work with Prof. 
Jim Spudich (USA) and Prof. Henrik Flyvbjerg (Denmark)
Paper reporting machine learning approach for the identification of odorant binding proteins appeared in 
BMC Bioinformatics is recognized as ‘a hot paper’ in computer science area

Visiting Professorship to teach a course on ‘History and Biological Impact of Protein Structures’ in

University de la ReUnion, ReUnion Islands, France (2008, 2009)

Umesh Srinivasan Best oral presentation on ‘Species associations in mixed-species bird flocks’ at the conference of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (Asia-Pacific Chapter), Chiang Mai, Thailand (Feb. 2009)
Aparna Suvrathan Merck Teaching Assistance Award 2008
Divya Karnad Best Oral Presentation at the Student Conference on Conservation Science, Cambridge, UK (March 2009)
K. VijayRaghavan Infosys prize (2009)

Sanjeev Upadhyay

CEAN and Wood-Whelan travel fellowship for a visit to University of Utah, USA (June – August 2008).

Mukund Thattai

Best Presentation’ as team mentor at iGEM (MIT’s International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition (2009)
More NCBSprize winners

More NCBSprize winners. Courtesy: Krishnapriya Tamma


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