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Newly described scorpion species from Western Ghats highlight need for more research and conservation
Since March 2020, scientists from the Institute of Natural History Education and Research (INHER), Pune have described seven new species of scorpions from the Western Ghats – six from the Sahyadris in Maharashtra and one from the southern Western Ghats near Bengaluru.
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‘Bad science’: Planting frenzy misses the grasslands for the trees
In this article on, ‘Bad science’: Planting frenzy misses the grasslands for the trees, the writer refers to work from Jayashree Ratnam, Mahesh Sankaran and colleagues on tropical savannahs.
Read the article: https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/bad-science-planting-frenzy-misses-the...
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Mistakes in protein synthesis can lead to phenotypic diversity
Dr. Laasya Samhita’s interview with Bio Patrika hosting “Vigyan Patrika”, a series of author interviews. Dr. Laasya is postdoc and DBT/Wellcome Trust early career fellow with Dr. Deepa Agashe, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. As an independent postdoctoral fellow, she works in an Evolutionary Biology laboratory and blends molecular biology with evolution, investigating how errors in protein synthesis can influence bacterial adaptation, and even turn out to be good for the cell.
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Calcium sensor STIM1 regulates gene expression and synaptic connectivity of Purkinje neurons
Sreeja Kumari Dhanya’s interview with Bio Patrika hosting “Vigyan Patrika”, a series of author interviews. Dhanya is a Ph.D. student working under the guidance of Prof. Gaiti Hasan in National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore. She completed her master’s in Medical Biotechnology from Manipal School of Life Sciences (MSLS) at Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal. -
Congratulations! Atul Joshi Awarded the Harper Prize by the British Ecological Society
The British Ecological Society (BES) has announced the winners of its journal prizes for research published in 2020.
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Purkinje Neurons in Mouse Cerebellum Make the Journal of Neuroscience Cover
The Journal of Neuroscience’s edition on 28 April 2021 Volume 41, Issue 17, carries a cover image created by Sreeja Kumari Dhanya, whose paper with Prof. Gaiti Hasan is published in this edition.
This confocal image shows Purkinje neurons in a mouse cerebellar section. Purkinje neurons that expresses tdTomato fluorescence are immunostained with calbindin (green). The ER-Ca2+ sensor STIM1 supports expression of genes that maintain dendritic morphology and synaptic input of these cells.
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NCBS teams up with NGOs for MSc in wildlife course
The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) has partnered with The Habitat Trust (THT) and the National Conservation Foundation (NCF) to offer an MSc programme in wildlife biology and conservation.
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Indo-French talks to strengthen scientific collaboration in bio-health
Bangalore Life Science Cluster (BLiSC) welcomed Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs to its campus. The minister made it a point to visit the Cluster for talks with the directors and CEO of NCBS, inStem, and C-CAMP respectively.
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Butterflies and moths look at the world differently: Blame it on evolution
All moths engage in swift flight manoeuvres, and their eyes can sense the slightest change in their environment. What causes their eyes to perform the same functions under different light conditions is not clear to scientists. Recently, researchers have studied whether the butterflies and moths’ activity patterns at different times of the day can explain the difference in how their eyes function.
