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The History of Biology in India will Soon Get its Own Space
1,500-sq-ft archives space to open up at old lab of Prof Obaid Siddiqi at the NCBS
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Three Bengaluru institutions announce largest joint mental health study in India
This is the first major and systematic research study of mechanisms of mental health disorders in India, scientists involved in the project claim.
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Mind Game: Understanding brain power
“As you understand the fundamentals of brain function, you can better recognise signs of dysfunction.
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Five species of cicadas identified from Aarey Colony
Researchers, including Kiran Marathe from NCBS, identify five species of cicada insects from Aarey Milk Colony, Mumbai
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Nothing “alternative” about careers beyond academia
An increasing number of PhDs now question the wisdom of jumping headlong into a postdoc (the autopilot postdoc). For most, this dilemma is a result of fewer tenured positions, remunerations (or the lack of thereof), and the fear of irrelevancy to society at large due to a constricted research focus.
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An integrated approach to understanding mental illnesses: doctors & scientists collaborate to study neuropsychiatric disorders
With nearly 2 –3% of the population of youngsters and adults (between the ages of 15–59 years) at risk of developing neuropsychiatric diseases, India needs to focus on understanding mental disorders.
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Active Evolvable Matter Lab Receives HFSP 2018 Young Investigator Research Grant
Prof. Shashi Thutupalli, head of the Active Evolvable Matter Laboratory at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore has received a 2018 Young Investigator Research Grant from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP).
The prestigious three-year funding is intended to establish new collaborative ties with scientists around the world and empower these teams to combine their expertise in addressing fundamental questions.
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Land degradation is affecting two-fifths of humanity
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), in its recently-published assessment report, has concluded that land degradation has reached the point where it has become a major contributor to mass human migration and increased conflict.
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NCBS Evolutionary Biologists Win American Society of Naturalists 2018 Presidential Award
The American Society of Naturalists (ASN) conferred its prestigious 2018 Presidential Award to evolutionary biologists from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, based in Bangalore, India. The ASN Presidential Award honors an outstanding research article from among all the papers published in the society’s journal, The American Naturalist, in the preceding calendar year. ‘Am. Nat.’ is a prominent scientific journal that publishes research papers in frontier areas of evolutionary biology and ecology.
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8th Annual Science Journalism Workshop
NCBS announces its 8th Annual Science Journalism Workshop, which will be held on campus from