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Listening to the stories of our people, lands and waters
First Chair ready to foster History and Culture of Science at NCBS
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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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Lab in Focus: Adaptation Lab
The Communications Office at the Bangalore Life Science Cluster introduced a brand new outreach initiative where our audience gets a behind-the-scenes look at BLiSC labs!
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RDO publishes its first article on research management in NCURA magazine
The Research Development Office (RDO) at the Bangalore Life Science Cluster celebrated a decade of operations in the field of research management in 2020. The establishment of the RDO was in recognition of the need for centralized and structured research management services for a complex research ecosystem, and the office has dedicated itself to supporting the scientific community of three institutions with different mandates. Dr. Malini S. Pillai and Dr.
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Lab in Focus: Biodiversity Lab
The Communications Office at the Bangalore Life Science Cluster has introduced a brand new outreach initiative where our audience gets a behind-the-scenes look at BLiSC labs!
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Congratulations! Dr. Ben Wigley awarded Julie S. Denslow Prize for the Outstanding Paper in Biotropica 2020
Dr. Ben Wigley has been awarded the Julie S. Denslow Prize for the Outstanding Paper in Biotropica 2020. His paper on 'Ants, fire, and bark traits affect how African savanna trees recover following damage' was published in Biotropica in 2019.
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Dr. Salil Sukumaran of ADBS Program Receives the Prestigious Hugh Gurling Award in World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG), 2020
The Google search for ‘bipolar disorder’ usually shows us the result as ‘this is a mental illness marked by extreme shifts in mood’, and that ‘the exact cause is not known but is believed to be a combination of genetics, and altered brain structure…’ But why or how is
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Congratulations! Dr. Vatsala Thirumalai awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for 2020
During the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR) Foundation Day celebration, on 26 September, the recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for 2020 were announced. Dr. Vatsala Thirumalai of the NCBS has been awarded this prize for her work in the biological sciences. 14 scientists from various fields received India’s highest science award this year.
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India to double its testing capacity - InDx - a new project launched in Bangalore
A major project has been launched to indigenously manufacture, in bulk quantities and at much lower costs, all reagents needed for RT-qPCR-based and other molecular methods of diagnostics of Covid-19. The Rockefeller Foundation has provided financial support for the project executed by the Bangalore Life Science Cluster, which would improve access to Covid-19 diagnostics across the country.
