The 'Sci-Illustrate Spotlight Series' inaugural guest was Prof. Shannon Olsson from the NICE lab at NCBS.

Read about the scientists she is and her journey in Medium: https://medium.com/sci-illustrate-stories/shannon-olsson-d6be657009b2

The second edition of the Lab Culture series: Tracing the Making of a Collective brings out an array of artefacts from various practitioners of arts, science, design, and history.

The first wildlife underpasses built under NH 44 could help reduce roadkill on the Kanha-Pench corridor dramatically. That now leaves us with 55,000 km of roads through forests to tackle

We are delighted to announce that Rittik Deb, a post-doctoral student from Dr Deepa Agashe's group at NCBS has been selected as a runner-up for the coveted Ben Barres Spotlight Award.

The Ben Barres Spotlight Awards were introduced to provide visibility and collaboration opportunities for scientists from underrepresented groups. We hope this translates into tangible benefits for his research.

A new species of lizard has been identified from forests and 'sadas' (laterite rocks) of Amboli, in Maharashtra. The discovery was made by an IT professional turned herpetologist and with three other researchers.

The recently released tiger census data brought much cheer due to the reported rise in population of tigers in the country.

Panaji: A new dragonfly species, cyclogomphus flavoannulatus, was recently discovered from Goa and Kerala.

Researchers at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, have identified that plant defence chemicals can help build immunity of the attacking insect herbivore. These results have been published in the Journal of Chemical Ecology on the 06^th of August 2019, with their story grabbing the Journal’s cover page.

Prof. Gaiti Hasan, a molecular geneticist at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), was recently elected as Vice President of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA). After thirteen years as a fellow of INSA, this year, the Academy has sought her counsel in strengthening their activities and initiating new programmes.

Fear memories formed before and after experiencing chronic stress can have very different behavioural effects. They also affect the brain morphology differently, finds a study. The researchers, based in National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) Bengaluru came to this conclusion by studying male Wistar rats.