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Dr Anjana Badrinarayanan elected as a Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences
Dr Anjana Badrinarayanan, Associate Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
Official Announcement: https://www.ias.ac.in/application/Fellows_2025.pdf
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How scientists predict what shapeless proteins do
Proteins are not always neatly folded molecular machines with a fixed shape that determines what they do inside a cell.
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Anubhav Prakash and Rajat Mann are co-winners of the "Professor Obaid Siddiqi Best Paper Award 2025
Anubhav Prakash, graduate student from Dr Raj Ladher’s lab, and Rajat Mann, graduate student from Dr Dimple Notanis’ lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Tnstitute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru (NCBS-TIFR) are co-winners of the "Professor Obaid Siddiqi Best Paper Award 2024"
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NCBS Students win Hindustan Unilever Limited Women in STEM Fellowship
Arpitha Jayanth (Professor Mahesh Sankaran's Lab) and Sakshi Shigvan (Dr Dimple Notani's Lab), graduate students at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru have been selected this year for t
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Avik Kumar Pal wins TIFR's Zita Lobo Memorial commendation for Best Thesis in Biology
Dr Avik Kumar Pal, graduate student from Professor P.V. Shivaprasad's lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR), Bengaluru, was awarded the Zita Lobo Memorial Commendation for Best thesis in Biology 2024-2025 by the Tata Insititute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)
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Minita Desai wins EMBO Travel Grant to attend ASCB CellBio Conference
Minita Desai, graduate student from Dr Swadhin Chandra Jana's lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru was awarded the EMBO Travel Grant to attend and present poster at the American Society for Cell biology (ASCB) EMBO Cell Bio Conference
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Dr Soumyashree Das elected as a EMBO Global Investigator
Dr Soumyashree Das, faculty at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, has been elected to the EMBO Global Investigator's Network.
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Can Himalayan Flowers and Flies Survive a Warming World? | STUDENT SPOTLIGHT ft. Gauri Gharpure
As the Himalayas warm, plants and their pollinators are climbing higher — but not always together. Gauri Gharpure’s work explores how changing temperatures and elevations affect flower–fly interactions, revealing how fragile yet resilient these mountain ecosystems can be.
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Mind the gaps! Proteins do better when packed tight
Proteins are essential for life - from immune signalling to digestion, almost every biological process relies on them. But proteins can be fragile.
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How muted neurons in the human brain could be made to chatter again : treatments for brain disorders
The brain of any living organism, in general, is composed of millions of tiny cells called neurons.














