Prof Mahesh Sankaran, faculty at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru was awarded the J.C. Bose Grant 2025, by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation for the project titled:"Grasslands in the Anthropocene: global change impacts on grassland dynamics in the Indian subcontinent."

Sreepadmanabh M., graduate student of Dr Tapomoy Bhattacharjee at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru is elected as co-chair for the 2027 Soft Condensed Matter Physics Gordon Research Seminar. (GRS)

He also delivered an invited talk at this year's GRS on how physical environments actively regulate biological growth.

National Geographic has released a major cover story on the pseu

Swardnadip Ghosh, graduate student from Dr Soumyashree Das's lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences , Bengaluru, recieved The Carl Storm International Diversity Award by Gordon Research Conferences and The DMM Conference Travel Grant by Disease Models & Mechanisms journal by The Company of Biologists, for Participating in The Angiogenesis Gordon Research Conference at Newport, USA.

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Steffi Raju, graduate student from Dr P.V.

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Samira Sheikh would be the fifth Obaid Siddiqi Chair for the academic year 2025-26. The Obaid Siddiqi Chair in the History and Culture of Science is an initiative designed to bridge the gap between the sciences, social sciences, and humanities (https://archives.ncbs.res.in/OS). It is made possible by a generous grant from the TNQ Foundation.

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